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Rightly named. The pale brown spot on the outer pales is 
very characteristic. — H. W. Pugsley. Correct. The tips of 
the glumes are much more tipped with purple than I have 
previously noticed, but the specimens are young. — J. Fraser. 
Yes. — -C. E. Hubbard. 
Festuca rigida Kunth var. patens (Coss. & Dur.). Cultivated 
in Lady Davy’s garden at West Byfleet, Surrey, July, 1933. 
Cosson & Germain (FI. des Environs de Paris, 1861, p. 842) 
give a description of “ S.-v. umbrosa ( Sclerochloa patens Presl. 
Cyp. et Gram. Sic. 45) — Plante plus grele. Rameau x et 
ramuscules de la panicule tres etales,” which seems to fit 
Lady Davy’s plant better than Rouy’s “ Feuilles plus larges ” 
and Husnot’s “ Plante plus grande,” if “ grele ” is equivalent 
to the Latin “ gracilis ” (Petit Larousse, 1928, p. 467). — 
J. E. Lousley. Correct. . . . Cultivation has greatly increased 
its height. — J. Fraser. 
Festuca rottbcellioides Kunth. Seaton, S. Devon, about a 
roadside wall, June 28, 1933. — JL S. Thompson. 
Bromus tectorum L. Near Thetford, W. Norfolk, June 4, 
1933. [Ref. E.17]. — J. E. Lousley. See. Rep. B.E.C. 1885, 
p. 140 (which antedates the first record given in Nicholson’s 
FI. Norfolk), and Journ. Bot. xxv, p. 89 (1887). This grass 
which has been well established on the heath near Thetford 
for nearly fifty years still exists in fair quantity, growing with 
Bromus sterilis which it closely resembles in habit. Its 
existence was seriously threatened during the War by a 
military camp, and, although it has survived that crisis, its 
destruction in the near future is almost certain. Under the 
afforestation scheme the heath has been planted with young 
Conifers which are now several years old, and their annual 
growth will rapidly increase until the Bromus is exterminated. 
— J. E. Lousley. Correct. — J. Fraser. Yes. — C. E. Hubbard. 
Agropyron repens Beauv. var. [ Leersianum S. F. Gray. ?]. 
New Passage, W. Glos., growing with awned form of A. 
acutum ( = ? junceum X repens), July 20, 1933, with J. E. 
Lousley. — H. S. Thompson. A. repens Beauv. var. dumetorum 
S. F. Gray. — C. E. Hubbard. Mr. Lousley is in no sense 
responsible for my confusion in regard to the two New Passage 
grasses. — H. S. T. 
Agropyron pungens R. et S. Avon bank, Hotwells, W. Glos., 
July 20, 1933.— H. S. Thompson. Correct. — J. Fraser. 
Correct. — C. E. Hubbard. 
