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coarse grass and rushes. The following description is taken from 
Grenier and Godron’s FI. Fr. vol. iii. pp. 207-8: — “Bulb simple, 
ovoid, greyish. Stem 1-g- to 2 ft. high, straight or slightly flexuose, 
cylindrical, leafy up to the middle. Leaves upright or ascending, 
linear, fleshy, fiat upwards , slightly channelled below, almost 
smooth or a little furrowed beneath, not keeled, scabrous on the 
edges. Umbel many- or few-flowered with many or few bulblets. 
Spathe with two unequal lanceolate-acuminate valves, the larger one 
exceeding the umbel. Perianth campanulate, rose- or deep violet- 
purple, the outer segments very concave and carinate. Stamens ex- 
serted, one-third or half as long again as the perianth ; anthers yellow. 
Style longer than the stamens ; angles of the ovary asperous.” Syno- 
nymy : — A. carinatum, L. Sp. 426 ; DC. FI. Fr. iii. p. 220. A. vio- 
laceurn, Willd. A.fiexmn , W. and K. Rar. Hung. t. 278. A. fiexuosum, 
Hochst. The plant is well figured in Waldstein and Kitaibel, 1. c., 
and in Redoute, Lil. vii. 368, also in Reichenbach’s Ic. Flor. Ger. vol. 
x. tab. 482-3, nos. 1058-59 ( violaceum , W., and asperum , Don) ; 1057 
(i carinatum , L.) must be quoted doubtfully. There are specimens in 
Billot, Exsicc. 1163. 
The species is found throughout Central Europe; also in Belgium, 
Denmark, and Gothland, and in North Italy (Venice), Turkey, and 
Central and Southern Russia. 
A form of the plant, without bulbs and capsuliferous, is often made 
a species under the names A. montanum , Sibth., A. pulchellum , Don, 
A. paniculatum, Reich, (not Linn, or DC.). It is figured in Reich. 
Ic. FI. Ger. x. 483-4, nos. 1060-61, and Redoute, Lil. v. 252. Spe- 
cimens from Lyons are in Billot, Exsicc. 671. 
The “A. carinatum, L.,” of Smith, E. B. 1658, is nothing more 
than a broad- leaved, large form of A. oleraceum, L. It has included 
stamens and greenish or yellow flowers, and is quite distinct from the 
species we are considering. 
Potamogeton decipiens, Nolte. (See last year’s Report.) Mrs. Hop- 
kins has contributed some more specimens of this from Bath. Flowers 
and fruit, however, are still desiderata. 
P. rufescens, Schrad. Specimens from between Woking and Chob- 
ham are sent by Mr. Watson, who suggests that the “ P. prcelongus ” 
of the Surrey Flora may be a misnomer, this species being intended. 
Ruppia maritima , L. With examples of this, collected by Mr. Syme, 
