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volume of ‘ English Botany.’ Yar. y, intermedia. Lower pale, ultimately 
pale yellowish-olive, glabrous, except at the base or in the lowest floret, 
also with a few widely-scattered hairs about the insertion of the awn. 
Glyceria plicata ft. subspicata Parnell ? “ See also ‘ Contributions to 
the Flora of Scilly Isles,’ in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ vol. ii., p. 118. Wet 
places, Head of Loch Long, N.B.” — Fred. Townsend. Col. Drummond- 
Hay sends the typical form of G. plicata from the shore end of St. 
Andrew’s, Fife. 
Festuca rubra, Linn. (Lond. Cat.). F. arenaria, Osb. “ Sandhills, 
Wallasey, Cheshire.” — J. Harbord Lewis. This is the extensively 
creeping coast plant with involute leaves, but the florets are finely 
scabrous or puberulent at least towards the apex, while they are often 
subglabrous at the base, not pubescent all over as in the typical F. 
arenaria. 
Bromus commutatus, Schrad. var. racemosus. “ Courtfields, Monmouth- 
shire.” — Augustin Ley. These specimens belong to the B. racemosus 
of Fries and the continental botanists. 
Bromus arvensis, L. “ Primrose Hill, Middlesex.” — W. T. Thiselton 
Dyer. 
Triticum acutum , D.C. “Burntisland and Kirkcaldy, Fife.” — J. Boswell 
Syme. “ St. Andrew’s, Fife.” — Col. Drummond Hay. This plant appears 
to be abundant on the Fife shore of the Frith of Forth. Many of the 
specimens have the spikelets smaller than usual, and the spike occupying a 
less portion than one fourth of the whole stem, which was the least propor- 
tion that I had seen when writing the description of the plant for ‘ English 
Botany.’ 
Lolium linicola, Sond. “ Newton Ards, County Down.” — E. F. Linton. 
FTordeum pratense, Huds. “ Sent from its being a rare grass about 
Plymouth. I have never seen it west of the Tamar.” — T. B. Archer 
Briggs. 
Laslrea cristata, Presl. Aclimere, Cheshire. “ This is a new locality 
for this rarity— if not the first time it has been recorded in Mid-Cheshire.” 
J. F. Bobinson. 
Fseudatkyrium alpestre, Newman. This plant, which was pretty 
abundant along the cliffs in Gleiulole, Clova (but never seen at a lower 
level than 2,500 feet) was so eaten down by sheep, that it was with the 
greatest difficulty an old frond in fruit could be found. At the Well of 
Dee, however, where there were no sheep to molest it, it was in great 
