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Andersson in his Gramineae Scandinavise, p. 45, remarks under 

 P. laxa, Haenke, P. alpina cui certissime proxima differt ; 

 culmis basi nudis, &c." Of P. laxa from Lochnagar I possess 

 only two specimens ; one of these is certainly simply P alpina 

 vivipara ; the other was also sent me by Mr. Webb labelled, "P. 

 laxa, Haenke, P. minor, Bab. (non Gaud.) This specimen has 

 been so named in Dr. Boswell's ms. Lochnagar. Collected 

 apparently by Prof. Balfour in 1846 and called by him P. 

 Balfourii.'" This is not viviparous, and may be true laxa, it 

 corresponds fairly with a specimen from the Dovre, Norway, 

 gathered by N. A. Johnsson and sent to Mr. Nicholson of Kew 

 (from whom I had it) by Dr. Winslow of Goteborg. The only 

 other Norwegian specimen I possess (gathered by Prof. Zetters- 

 tedt) looks to me much more like a P. glauca form, its base is 

 not naked, but thickened by the sheaths, still it is not alpina. 

 I should be glad to get more specimens' from Lochnagar to 

 submit to Prof. Hackel, as it is very awkward to have two 

 supposed plants on our lists that may not be what they are 

 named. If anyone will do this, I propose to send the only two 

 I have that may be correct. — A. B. 



Festuca . Dry banks, Hinckley, Leicestershire, July, 



1895. — H. P. Reader. This I suppose is what Dr. Boswell 

 would have named F. duriuscula " Linn." Sm. of the 3rd Ed. 

 of English Botany. Babington considers that Smith's plant 

 was rwJrt? in part," and I suppose ovina in part, as he has 

 durinscula, L.,'" under his F. ovina. These specimens 

 clearly have nothing to do witli ovi7ia, L., still I am in doubt 

 what Prof. Hackel would name them. When the opportunity 

 occurs I hope to let him see this. — A. B. 



Agropyron pungens, Roem & Schult } Gravelly field by 

 seashore, Coney Island, Killough, Co. Down, Sept. 14th, 1894. 

 — C. H. Waddell. I should say not pungens, but a maritime 

 state of repens. — W. R. L. 



A.junceum, Beauv. Colwyn Bay, Denbigshire, July, 1895. 

 New Record.— W. H. Painter. 



