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seems to fit the type maritimus of this country rather than the 

 variation under notice, which has a rather weak slender stem from 

 four to five feet high Still, as Dr Moss has suggested, it will be well 

 to compare this plant with specimens of J. rigidus in the Rouy 

 Herbarium at Paris when an opportunity offers ; and until that can be 

 done the name atlanticus should be regarded as provisional. Examples 

 in some degree approaching the Scillonian form have been lately for- 

 warded from Poole Harbour, Dorset, by my friend Mrs E. P. Sandwith. 

 The following brief description may suffice to define this variety : — 

 Culmo subtenue, elato, ad 10 — 15 dcm. producto. Anthela magna 

 (2| — 4 dcm. longa) diffusa, abunde decomposita, hracteam floralem 

 inferiam multo superante. Csetera ut typi. With reference to the 

 comments of Professor Lindman and Mr Adamson in the Report for 

 1913, p. 499, I would say that no botanist who had seen it growing in 

 masses over a large area could possibly suppose this plant to be a 

 monstrosity ; and would ask how any state of luxuriance could so 

 shorten the lower bract, not merely in relation to its own panicle, but 

 in relation to that of a non-luxuriant type. — J. W. White. "T find 

 in my herbarium a specimen of this interesting variety, collected by 

 Mr A. Somerville, in July 1890, in the same station (Mr White con- 

 firms the name). This shows that the variation is not merely a ' state,' 

 'here to-day, gone co-morrow,' which is interesting in the face of some 

 of the comments on p. 499, B.E.C. Rep. 1913."— C. E. Salmon. "It 

 certainly is a peculiar form. Only one variety is given by Ascherson 

 and Graebner in their Syn. Flor. Mitt.-Eur. 1904, p. 456, and that 

 is a very local plant." — A. Bennett. " A well-marked variety, in my 

 opinion ; contrasting greatly with a slender,, narrow-panicled plant 

 found on the Lancashire coast-sands." — E. S. Marshall. 



Juncus filiformis L. Derwentwater, Cumberland, August 1902.— 

 G. C. Druce. 



Juncus hulhosus L., var. uUginosus (Fr.) Druce. [Ref. No. 103.] 

 Wet lane. Petit Bo, Guernsey, August 6, 1912. — W. C. Barton. " So I 

 should name it."— C. E. Salmon. " This is not var. uligi^iosus, 

 which is a procumbent form seldom " bulbous " and with three 

 stamens. The present plant has six stamens with the anthers only 

 about one-third the length of the filaments. It would apparently 

 come under the var. Kochii = J. nigritellus Koch non D. Don. This 

 is generally described as having the capsule equal or shorter than 

 the perianth, not much longer, as in the present case. I know this 

 long-pointed form from many woodland districts. On further 

 examination of the plants sent by Mr Barton last year from 

 Roundstone, Co. Gal way, it would appear they are the same as this, 

 and not J. hulhosus f. uliginosus, as previously reported." — R. S. 

 Adamson. " I look upon this simply as a viviparous condition, not a 

 true variety." — E. S. Marshall. 



