356 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
— ridged, ridges minutely hairy or papillose, otherwise the blade 
labrous. Panicle strict, linear, with a tendency to a secund 
arrangement, 64 to 74 inches long, reaching half an inch in width; 
ranches erect, in a fascicle of 4 to 2 on one side the rachis at each 
hola: the longest branch at each node naked in the lower — one 
or two of the remainder very short and bearing only a single 
spikelet; rachis smooth, branche se anhedoe Spikelets rigidulous, 
sessile or shortly stalked, terete and narrowly linear- lanceolate in 
outline before flowering, becoming bcnedé er and suboblong when 
flowering ; 5- to 8-flowered, rarely fewer, 4 to 7 lines long, rarely 
shorter. Barren glumes glabrous, green; membrano-herbaceous, 
me membranous transparent edges and apex; the lower lanceo- 
late, subacute, nerveless, 14 to 2 lineslong; the upper elliptic, 
anol blunt, 3-nerved, 2 - 21 lines long. Fer tile glumes 
glabrous. Pale ner ac an the glume, nerves siliolate. 
LAND. Shore of Strangford Lough, County Down. 
EDITERRANEAN. South of France! Sardinia! Corsica! oes North- 
east Italy! Dalmatia! Constantinople! Nauplia! Taurus 
Description oF PLATE oe 
Figure of plant, half natur ae size. 1. Portion of leaf, showing upper part 
of sheath, ligule (1) and lower part of blade, Whe has been unrolled to show 
the ridges on the upper surface, x . A transverse Sarva of the leaf-blade 
near its base, showing vascular bundles (b) and girders of supporting tissue con- 
necting them with the lower, and, in the case of the stronger bundles, also with 
the lodicules turned back to show the ovary, only ~ My _ three stamens is is 
shown, X 12. 7. A lodicule, viewed from the front, 
SOME MOSSES AND HEPATICS OF SOUTH DONEGAL. 
By H. W. Lert, M.A., M.RB.ILA. 
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collected “a me on the 11th and 12th June, 1902, on Slieve leaps 
in the county of inthe om a locality to which Mr. H. N. Dixon 
miles west of Killybegs, which is the nearest railway station. It 
extends along Donegal Bay, where it _ open to the Atlantic, and 
_____ 18 80 preeipitous on the sea side as to be inaccessible from that 
