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8. acuminatua Fieber. Leaves tapering to a point. Stem 

 elongate, branched above. Internodes 2-2| in. long. 

 Peduncle 9-12 lines, spike 3 lines long. 

 P. pmillus Fl. d. 1451 ! — P. pusillus *. major M. et K. d. fl. 

 p. 857." 



In the key (p. 10) the diagnoses run :— 

 "Leaves acuminate, 3-ribbed. Midrib simple. Peduncle twice 

 as long as the spike. Sepals semiorbicular or reniform. Nut 

 obovate. Dorsal keel sharply angled . . pmillus L. 



Leaves with a capillary or small point, 3-ribbed. Midrib with 

 two adjacent lateral nerves. Peduncle 3-3| times as long as 

 the spike. Sepals obliquely elliptic, crenate above. Nut 

 roundly 5-angled, Dorsal keel semiorbicular, prominent 

 . . . Berchtoldi Fieber." 



Carex paludosa Good. By the Darent, between Farningham and 

 Eynsford, 16.* 



Alopecurus fvlvus Smith. By a pond near Staplehurst, 15.* 



Agrostis alba L., var. gigantea Meyer. Wet ditch bordering a 

 wood, near Smeeth Station, 15. 



Glyceria Borreri Bab., var. humilis mihi, n. var. This curious 

 little grass is plentiful on dried-up (or drying) mud, close to the 

 station at Port Victoria, 16. When I first noticed it, in 1892, 1 did 

 not recognise it as belonging to this species, which is frequent in 

 the neighbourhood. Prof. Hackel, to whom specimens were sent, 

 named it " Q. Borreri, var." A more careful examination on the 

 occasion of my second visit led me to the conclusion that it had 

 fair claims to rank as a named variety, which may be differentiated 

 by the following characters :— Annual, tufted, quite prostrate ; in- 

 florescence usually short and compact; leaves more or less involute; 

 plant about 3-8 in. across (measuring from the extremities of the 

 flowering-stems). 



Festuca elatior x Lolium perenne (F. loliacea Huds., L./estucaceum 

 Link). Abundant in a moist meadow near the Darent, associated 

 with the parent species, above Eynsford, 16. 



Lolium perenne L. A stiff-growing plant, found in fields on 

 the chalk between Folkestone and Paddlesworth, has elicited from 

 Prof. Hackel the following suggestive note : — " L. perenne, a remark- 

 able form, in habit and spikelets quite like L. rigidum Gaud., but 

 surely perennial [Yes. — E. S. M.] , while L. rigidum is an annual. 

 The existence of this form may prove that L. rigidum belongs 

 specifically to L. perenne, of which it is the annual form." 



Agropyron junceum Beauv. Grain Spit, near Port Victoria, 16.* 



