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Euphorbia — L. var. A compact form, growing in limestone 
rites oe de arable land—between Rhés-on-Sea and the Little 
Orme’s Head, ne of Denbigh and Carnarvon, September, 1901. 
I send this compact, stout form to show its condition when growing 
in limestone crevices near the shore.—J. Cosmo Metvinn, ‘I do 
not see anything off type in this. Tk thats on the oolite of the 
; the real 
interest of this nite consists in its proving that | the species is 
a true native of Britain.’’—Ep. 
E. exigua var. retusa (DC.). Yeldersley, S. Derbyshire, 2ud 
August, 1901. This was fairly abundant i in crops, and the prevalent 
form, none of the type being seen.” —W. R. Linton. * Very well 
June hour obeusifioy us Khrh. var. Paid tus Doll. Rhen. Fl. 180 (1848), 
St. Ouen’s Pond, Jersey, July 25th, 1900. Plentiful on the south 
side of the pond, with the eee I owe the name and reference to 
Mr. Arthur Bennett, who remarks: ‘‘ I have not Sea this form = 
England before. None of my kaee oa ci a like this 
L. V. Lester. ‘Apparently a good vari Ep. 
Cyperus fuscus Li. Ditches in the sae Valley, North Fou 
set, 12th September, 1901.—J. W. ae re and R. P. Murray. ‘It 
is riser native in Somerset. A man who was cleaning oi the 
ditches said he had known it there for forty years.” —R. P. Murray. 
Brine interruptus Druce in Pharm, Journ. aarp (Cokie: ~ 
1895), Journ. Bot. ehgssmtbers 1895), and in Soe. 
(1896), pp. 426-430. a field of vetches in ey aan of Bright. 
well Salome, Oxon, ye 1901. Exception has been taken to the 
citation of the species from Pharm. Journ. Suppl., because the 
species is not diagnosed there; but the plant itself had been pre- 
aad diagnosed by Prof. Hackel in sae and published by me in 
BLE rt (1888), p. 240, et & va: iety 0 of Bromus sey under 
the name interruptus. Subseque' velate, oa abla Sikh that it 
ieee ar rae for aah a GoeGon. and I a ngly named it 
species in the e periodical; and this G4 ‘protity over 
ithe the Toler of . Bakke, where a brief diagnosis was given, or 
the Journal of the Linnean Society, where a full account and de- 
scription are published.—G. Cu LARIDGE Dr ucE. « The two specimens 
in my parcel striking me d to my ing 
examini 
them, and alte all the flowers wae on one ta with the palea 
entire, and all I opened on the othe r with the palea split to the base. 
It then became aidant that the specimen with the entire had 
all the appearance of being B. mollis L., and not B. interruptus 
Druce; it is, in fact, B. mollis bead  glabratus Doell. The full account 
of B. interruptus occurs in B. E. C. Report, 1895, pp. 503-4, where 
Mr. Druce raises it to a species. Mr. W. H. Be Beeby questions whether 
it is not a monstrosity rather than a species ; Pro - Hackel hesitates 
een a species a an anomalous form, believing the split palea 
to have originated from some abnormal state; and the editors of 
the Report (Messrs. Groves) report that ‘ Dr. Stapf and Mr. Rendle 
