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in the Botanical Gazette, 1881, p 17. He there proposes three 

 forms, a. ^. and 7. Of these Mr. Ewing s plant represents ; 

 he gives no names however to his varieties. In Sweden the 

 species often occurs between 5 and 6 feet high. Our alpine 

 form does not seem to agree with those of Laestadius or Ny- 

 lander, and may perhaps bear the name of v minor, Boott., 

 though I have not compared the specimens with Boott's 

 herbarium at Kew. — A. B. 



C. . Marsh, Hillsborough, Co. Down, July, 1894. — 



C. H. Waddell. No doubt an abnormal form of C. ampullacea. 

 Good. The development seems from some cause to have been 

 arrested.— A. B. 



Sesleria coerulea, Ard. var. luteo-alha, Opiz. Burren, Co. Clare, 

 May, 1895 ; leg. P. B. O'Kelly. Vide remarks in Report for 

 18C4-5. The specimens now sent are from the extensive 

 Barony of Burren, Co. Clare, the greater poition of which is 

 very rocky (Upper Limestone formation). Throughout this 

 tract of country one of the most frequent grasses is Sesleria 

 coerulea, and scattered through it here and there the variety 

 luteo-alha is not altogether uncommon. — H. C. Levinge. 



Poa striata, Lindb. Lochnagar, Aberdeen, July, 1894. — P. 

 Ewing. These specimens seemed to me merely P. alpina, L., 

 V. vivipara, but to make sure I sent one of them to Prof. Hackel. 

 In his reply he says " The P. stricta from Lochnagar is only P. 

 alpina v. vivip%ra in a dwarf state. P. alpina is in all its forms 

 characterised by the leaf-sheaths accumulated at the base of the 

 stem, which seems swollen by them. P. stricta, Lindb., has 

 no thickened base of the stem, because its sheaths are remote 

 like those of P. laxa, of which P. stricta is perhaps only a 

 viviparous variety." The only specimen that I have seen from 

 Scotland that might be P stricta, is one I possess from Lochna- 

 gar, gathered on Aug. 7th, 1831, by Mr. W. Brand, and sent to 

 me by Mr. F. IVL Webb, when he was curator of the Edinburgh 

 Herbarium. This has the base of the stem naked, the base of 

 the leaves tapered (not abruptly square as in alpina), but it is 

 difficult to see the exact character of the viviparous flowers. 



