Remarks on Poa Sudetica. 131 



Silesia, Bohemia, Moravia, Styria, and the Tyrol." The 

 only " British Flora " in which its characters are given is 

 that by the late Mr. Alexander Irvine, of Chelsea. Its 

 recorded station is " in the ground of the Royal Hospital, 

 Chelsea, June and July. This grass was first observed in 

 1851, but it had the appearance of being well established for 

 years prior to that date." A copy of Mr. Irvine's description 

 may perhaps enable members of the Club to identify this 

 grass in other portions of the district : — 



" Roots perennial and creeping. Stems erect, smooth, striated, 

 somewhat compressed ; with stolons and barren shoots at the 

 base. Root-leaves tufted, numerous, broad, short, with abrupt 

 points. Stem leaves long, flaccid, linear ; keeled very rough ; 

 ligule very short, truncate, almost obsolete. Panicle large, rather 

 close, the lowermost branches drooping. Spikelets ovate, numer- 

 ous, compressed, four to five flowered ; florets strongly nerved 

 and without the web of hairs connecting their bases." 



Mr. Brotherston has furnished me with excellent specimens 

 ol this grass, which I have compared with the descriptions 

 of Schrader, Willdenow, &c. The sheaths of the leaves are 

 sharpish two-edged ; the leaves slope together at the points ; 

 the panicle is equally spread ; the spikes are ovate-lanceo- 

 late ; the florets are pointed ; the stem rigid. There is a 

 pretty contrast between the bright green spikes, and the 

 white edges of the florets, giving a variegated aspect to the 

 panicle ; also, between the faded nankeen-yellow of the 

 external leaves, the paler green stem, and the darker fresh 

 leaves. There is a variety with hairs at the base of the 

 florets. The short leaves remind one of P. pratensis, of 

 which a state has been mistaken for P. Sudetica. Decandolle 

 makes two varieties : 1, rubens, 2, viridis ; and both have 

 been ranked as species. Poa Sudetica has about a dozen 

 synonyms. 



Queen Ethelswith's Ring. — The statement in the 

 " Athenaeum," quoted in the President's Address is not quite 

 correct. The Rev. W. Green well writes that " it was found 

 somewhere between Sherburn and Aberford in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire, but I have not yet got the precise 

 locality." (March 8, 1874). 



