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Bromus arvensis. “Tweedside, Kelso, Roxburghshire, 1874. This 
was gathered partly in J une and partly in September. In September 
the spikelets are much larger (owing, I think, to the wet weather), 
like patulus , but the pales are equal and the anthers long. Introduced 
with wool and also with grass seeds.” — A. Brotherston. Some of 
Mr. Brotherston’s specimens bear a great resemblance to B. patulus, 
but they have the long anthers and subequal outer and inner pales of 
B. arvensis. The spikelets are wholly green as in patulus ; in the 
dried plant it is impossible to see the striking difference in the struc- 
ture of the two. B. patulus has the panicle freely drooping, the spike- 
lets all hanging over to one side, while in B. arvensis it is scarcely one- 
sided ; when it is in flower the longer, and stiffer peduncles spread 
widely, and the upper inner ones are erect. 
Bromus {patulus, Mert. and Koch?) “Some specimens from an 
immense root of what seems to be this, found near Marsh Mill (flour 
mill), Plympton St. Mary. In a waste shady spot, July, 1874.” — T. 
R. Archer Briggs. “ This seems to me the same plant as that sent by 
Mr. Brotherston — i.e., B. arvensis, simulating B. patulus. It has 
long anthers and subequal pales.” — J. T. Boswell, June, 1875. 
Brachypodium sylvaticum, var. “ An example of a variety of this 
plant growing on dry banks by the Plymouth and Saltash Road. The 
spikelets are slender and nearly erect. Any Plymouth record for 
B. pinnatum probably belongs to this variety of B. sylvaticum.' ’ — T. 
R. Archer Briggs, 1872. 
Lepturus filiformis. “ Salt marsh, Inverkeithing, Pife. As I see 
in ‘ English Botany ’ Lepturus filiformis is given as ‘ having been re- 
ported from Inverkeithing,’ perhaps you may care to have the accom- 
panying specimens from the salt marsh there. I first gathered it there 
in 1871, and this year found it there in great profusion, along the 
very edge of the road.” — T. Drummond, 1874. 
JOHN T. BOSWELL. 
J. F. DUTHIE. 
July 3, 1875. 
