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fields. There, owing to the similarity of the grains, it is likely to 
mong other cereals 
zontally ; but the much inclined spike, with its edge upwards, is 
almost invisible from a vertical direction.—E. F. Layton. 
Giycerta (Panicunarta) pistans Wahl. var. renvuiroria Gren. & 
Godr. in Sussex anD Kent,—Thi ant was first named Aira 
sissima. b. dire aquatice Flor. Delph. 6.” He says, ‘“ Cette espéce 
ell 
noticed this plant some years ago, growing in a mudd tidal ditch 
near Shore in Sussex, and in 1902 the same plant attracted 
my attention in the mud-flats at New Romne ent, where it 
Spicuous a feature between Dungeness and New Romney. 
fessor Hackel has named it as above. It has not been hitherto 
recorded as British_—G. Cuarmee Daruce. 
__ SeNecto panusrais DO. iw Sussex.—In recently going through 
the correspondence and herbarium of Dillenius for the purpose of 
_ publishing a brief biography and an account of the herbarium, 
raich has many interesting species, I came across a letter of Dr. 
1 Drown, who accompanied Dillenius on the well-known 
