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M. Dawber. Near this probably, but the awns are straight ; in 

 Lloydianus true, they are distinctly bent back. — A. B. 



Festucob pratensiSf auct. x Lolium perenne, L. = Lolium 

 festucaceum^ Link. = Festuca loliacea, Huds. Meadow by Wych 

 Bridge, Cheshire, 4, viii, 1893, .1 send a few sheets of what, I 

 believe, is usually put under this hybrid, which I take to be 

 synonymous with F. loliacea, Huds. (1,730c of Lond. Cat.), and 

 Lol. festucaceum, Link (1,746 x ibid.) I fail to see, however, how 

 they differ from the simple spiked form of F. pratensis, Huds,, 

 the section of the rachis, which is the only tangible character I 

 know by which to separate them^ being usually between "ilattish" 

 and " triangular." I frequently find the spike quite simple and 

 truly distichous {F. loliacea, Huds.), and more or less branched 

 (var. 2)seuJo loliacea, Hack 1) on the same plant, and sometimes, 

 also, much branched panicles (typical pratensis). In the case, 

 however, of the plant sent, I did not see any tendency to branch, 

 but I can detect no difference in the plant from the simple spikes 

 of plants which also bear branched ones. I seek enlightenment on 

 the varieties.— A. H. W. Dod. I am afraid I do not see the 

 point of Mr. Dod's note. I thought that long ago Mr. Watson 

 decided by actual cultivation that F. loliacea, .Huds, was simply a 

 state of pratensis : but Syme thought there might be another plant 

 which he did not know, or had not seen, which Fries puts under 

 Brachyp>odium, and Godrun under Glyceria, but others consider it 

 a hybrid as Mr. Dod has it ^es^wcft x Lolium perenne ; but 



I do not see how his plant differs from Watson's specimens, and so 

 they are really only depauperised pratensis, not a hybrid. — A. B. 



Agropyron pungens, R. and S. E. Yorks. — C. Waterfall. A 

 rejyens, Beauv. only. — A. B. 



A. acutum, E. & S. Goodrington Sands, near Paignton, S. Devon, 

 June, 1888. — C. Waterfall, May be correct, but uncertain. — A. B. 



Lastrma dilatata, Brest, v, collina, Bab. Loughrigg Fell, 

 Westmoreland, Aug. 1891. — C. Waterfall. May be correct, but I 

 do not know the variety, but if figures and descriptions are con- 

 sulted, this does not seem prolonged enough in the upper part of 

 the frond for that variety, as Newman figures it. — A. B. 



