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1905. The spikes are denser than in other specimens of C. epigeios 

 which I possess, but they were apparently gathered before flowering. — 

 A. B. Jackson. "This comes indeed very near that variety." — E. 

 Hackel. 



Aira caryophyllea, L. [Ref. No. 4930.] A small pretty form 

 growing with Uypochaeris glabra at Frilford, July 1912. — G. C. 

 Druce. 



Dactylis glomerata, L., var. b. congesta, Gren. and Godr. Lan- 

 cresse Common, Guernsey, Aug. 8, 1912. — W. C. Barton. "Yes; 

 the older name is abhreviata, Bernh." — G. C. Druce. "Just like the 

 plant so called, from the Great Orme's Head. A recent visit has con- 

 firmed my belief that this is nothing but a starved state." — E. S. 

 Marshall. "Z). glomerata, var. abhreviata, Drejer." — E. Hackel. 



Poa Chaixii, Vill. Millwood, Dalton, v.-c. 69, July 15, 1912. 

 This grass is well established here. I can't make even a plausible guess 

 at the mode of introduction. The narrow leaved parts distributed are 

 from plants in deep shade. For three seasons these plants have pro- 

 duced no flowering culms, while those on what might be called the 

 'edge of shade' have flowered luxuriantly. The plants maintain the 

 deep glossy ivy green colour, which is very difterent from that of any 

 other grass known to us, all the winter. The asperities causing the 

 roughness seem to point upwards on the actual culm and downwards 

 on the sheaths. I hope some member, whose opinion is a weighty one, 

 will agree with me and put on record that 'glabrous' is a misleading 

 description of the veins on these lower pales. — D. Lumb. " Yes ; and 

 corroborated by Prof. Lindman and E. Hackel. It is a new county 

 record. I have deleted the term glabrous from my Pocket Book ; the 

 veins are often, but not as these specimens show, entirely glabrous." — 

 G. C. Druce. 



Poa palustris, L., var. effusa, Achers. and Graebn. [Ref. No. 3 4 9. J 

 Old clay-pits, the Rhydd, near Upton-on- Severn, Worcester. Coll., 

 R. F. Towndrow, July 10, 1912. The specimens sent last year were 

 too far advanced ; I send a set gathered earlier. — S. H. Bickham. 



Poa pratensis, L., var. subcoerulea (Sm.). Sand-pit, St Martha's Hill, 

 Guildford, Surrey, v.-c. 17, June 1912.— J. Comber. " Yes."— G. C. 

 Druce and E. Hackel. 



Poa nemoralis, L. Damp wall in deep shade, Millwood, Dalton, 

 v.-c. 69, Sept. 11, 1912. Is this type? — D. Lumb. "Var. coarctata, 

 Gaud., or between that and the type. Collected too late in the 

 year." — E. S, Marshall. " Yar, subuni/lora, Reichb," — E. Hackel, 



