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3-75 mm. long, turning brown when ripe; beak short. — J. E. 
Little. The name of C. Leersii F. Schultz does not seem applic- 
able to our plant, which is really pseudo-dimlsa of Syme (“Eng. 
Bot.”). If you use Schultz’s name, I suppose these may come 
under it, but I have not seen a specimen named by Schultz, and 
in Cnrex this is necessary.— A.B. Perigynia too gradually nar- 
rowed for C. Paired. Kiikenthal named plants of mine from 
England C. Leersii [so this does away with the first contention, 
i.e. Mr. A. Bennett’s objection to the name C. Leersii F. Schultz]. 
I should like to see the plant growing, but at present I leave it 
under Leersii.— Gf.C.D. This did not strike me as pseudo-divulsa, 
but a form nearer to muricata. British botanists vary in their 
opinions as to C. Leersii and C. Paircei, as it seems to me, and I 
should not myself feel certain of naming a plant as either.— 
A.H.E. This is a most interesting but rather puzzling plant. It 
has perigynia and nuts smaller than those of Paircei , contigua and 
Leersii, whilst their shape (more elongated) strongly recalls 
divulsa. The perigynium is, however, broader near the base and 
the beak more strongly toothed. It will be noticed, too, that 
the lower spikelets, in some of the examples, are quite separated, 
and that the perigynia are ascending -spreading, as in divulsa, and 
not divergent as in Paircei and Leersii. The nuts I examined did 
not appear at all healthy, and some were decidedly sterile and 
empty. I suggest that Mr. Little’s plants may be C. Paircei x 
divulsa, and should be very glad to have a root to grow and test 
in the garden. It would be interesting to know if C. divulsa oc- 
curred in the neighbourhood. — C.E.S. A nut from a sheet I 
have mounted appears healthy. Its proportions are about 2T 
mm. long and L75 mm. broad, and the upper shoulder is rather 
more tapered off than the base, i.e. its proportions are rather 
those of divulsa than of Paircei , in which the nut (“ obtuse quad- 
rata”) has length and breadth approximately equal, and the 
rounding at the shoulders similar to that at the base. — J.E.L. 
Mr. Bucknall and I have spent some time over this plant, with 
the result that we are inclined to agree with Mi'. Salmon. 
Hybrids do sometimes produce a proportion of good fruit — 
usually a small one. I fancy that a hybrid often carries a pecu- 
liar facies, quite indescribable, that suggests its cross-bred origin, 
and this plant, in my eyes, has it. — J.W.W. Of the four spikes 
on the sheet sent only one has normally developed perigynia, 
and it seems likely that the plant is a hybrid. If so, the parent- 
age suggested by Mr. Salmon (C. Paircei x clividsa) seems most 
probable. — H.W.P. 
