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variety, and do not see reason to alter this view.’—E. F. INTON, 
«J also think this too closely allied to B. mollis. The Pharmaceutical 
Journal is not a strictly botanical publication ; new species ra 
i n.’’—Hp 
although we do not understand him to suggest that species published 
elsewhere than in “strictly botanical publications ” are not entitled 
to recognition. But the Supplement to the Pharmaceutical Journal 
in which Mr. Druce’s brief note on Bromus interruptus appears is no 
part of the magazine, and is not always bound up with it. It con- 
tains market reports and odds and ends, is separately paged in 
roman numerals, and its contents do not even appear in the index 
to the volume, which will thus be searched in vain for any reference 
to Mr. Druce’s note. Under such circumstances it seems idle to 
contend that priority of name-publication ean be claimed for the note, 
Nor is it easy to see what is to be gained by such a claim; the note 
in question appeared in October, and the name was published in 
this Journal on December 1st. It may be worth while to reprint 
the note here; the description appeared, not in this Journal, but in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxii. 496-8 (1896), and no figure, so far 
as we know, has appeared :— 
‘New Species of Bromus. — Mr. @ Claridge Druce, of Oxford, 
a curious form of Bromus, which was named 3. mollis var. interruptus. 
From subsequent study I have been led to consider it a distinct spe- 
cies. It will be figured and described in an early number of the 
Journal of Botany under the name of Bromus interruptus.’ ’? — Ep. 
Journ. Bor.] 
Eq 
15th August, 1901. This is the only form 
seen in Cheshire; in the Broxton Hundred of which, at any rate, 
it is a rare species——A. H. Worry. Dp. ‘The form we cal 
E. capillare Hoffm.; but a doubtful variety, probably the product 
Linton.’ “ Hoffma 
uisetum sylvaticum L. var, capillare(Hoffm.). Harthill, Cheshire, 
" t of ticum I have 
h, ; 
IT have frequently seen typical sylvaticum growing in situations 
similar to those which produce capillare,’—Kp, a 
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