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vii. p. 22, and Koch’s Syn. FI. Germ., p. 779. None of the speci- 
mens we have examined have been in fruit, but, according to Hartma n 
it is similar to that of P. lucens (Ska id'navens Flora, p. 211). In 
Northern Germany the plant has been gathered in Holstein, Schleswig, 
and the vicinity of Hamburg, but it is not included in the French 
floras. For the plate prefixed to this report, tab. 61 of the ‘Journal 
of Botany,’ we are indebted to the editor of that work. It was drawn 
from Mrs. Hopkins’s specimens. 
Aira uliginosu, Weihe. This seems to have been gathered long ago 
by Mr. G. Hon in the neighbourhood of Forfar, and by Mr. G. Jack- 
son at the Loch of Drum, in Aberdeenshire, and should be looked for 
again on swampy moors. It is exceeding like A. jlexuosa, with which 
it is united by Fries and Andersson ; but it has been regarded as dis- 
tinct by Koch and many other French and German authors. The 
characters principally relied upon to distinguish it are its more consi- 
derable ligule (oblong-acute in shape, in contradistinction to the very 
short truncate one of si. Jlexnosa), and the second flower of the spike- 
let, which in A. jlexnosa is subsessile, having in the other a stalk half 
as long as itself. (See ‘Journal of Botany,’ vol. iv. p. 177.) 
Lastrea dilatata, Presl, var. lepidola. This Lastrea, found near 
Aberdeen, and first brought into notice by Mr. Moore, is a well-marked 
form of the spinulosa series, with characters as follows: — Stem 4-6 inches 
long, densely clothed throughout with adpressed, spreading, or even 
recurved scales, which are very unequal in size, the small ones lanceo- 
late, the largest ovate, 4£- 6 lines long, 3 lines broad, nearly uniform 
in colour throughout. Frond not more that a foot long after it has 
been cultivated, 6-8 inches broad, ovate-deltoid in general outline, 
quadripinnatifid, the lower pinnae decidedly the largest, and the pin- 
nules of the lower side larger than those of the upper one, these latter 
lanceolate-deltoid, the lowest in large specimens 2 inches long by half 
as broad, cut down to the rhachis into stalked lanceolate segments, 
with distinct toothed or pinnatifid lobes. Colour dark green, the 
rachis chesnut-brown on exposure; both the main one and those of 
the pinnae considerably chaffy, the under surface slightly glandular, 
and the involucre a little gland-ciliated. From the typical plant this 
recedes considerably in the cutting and outline of the frond, being much 
more divided, with the lower pinnae, as in L. amttla, conspicuously and 
uniformly the largest. This character, and the density and uniformity 
