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sterile, but the drought of the present year may have been a 
contributory cause. Mr. C. E. Salmon writes : “ As to C. strida : 
Your plants are not very like what I have seen in Norfolk, nor 
are they like what Evans sent me from Wicken Fen. The fruit- 
ing spikes should be stouter, and the fruits themselves arranged 
in beautiful symmetrical rows, 7 — 8 — ranked. But the split- 
sheath and the evidence of the filamentous threads seems to put 
your plant under strida. I am not very happy about it, and I 
hope you will come across some better material, with more 
developed spikes.” Mr. Ar. Bennett writes : “ 0. strida Good, 
(a name that should not be used, as there is an earlier strida). A 
small form of the species ? unless the burning has made it so. I 
am not surprised at Mr. Salmon’s ‘not happy about it.’ In the 
state of your specimens sent it is hard to say, but the fruit is far 
more like strida than Goode nowii .” The herbage of both banks 
has been burnt to improve the pasturage. The practice has 
already, I think, improved several species out of existence. It 
is, however, satisfactory io be able to confirm this old record, 
and that of another plant, Sparganium simplex Huds., as to which 
I find in Pryor, “Once found near West Mill, Bentley (? error).” 
Robert Bentley sent a list to “The Phytologist” (1857 — 58), 
492 — 499. S. simplex occurred this year in small quantity on 
the left bank at Oughton Head, about a quarter of a mile from 
West Mill. — J. E. Little. 
C. Goodenouni Gay, f. pseudo-trinervis Ar. Benn. (Gee W.E.O.R., 
1912, p. 411.) Small pond, Crouch Green, Knebworth, Herts., 
v.c. 20, June 21 & July 30, 1921. — J. E. Little. Mr. Ar. Bennett 
writes : “On referring to the Watson Club Report for 1912 — 13, 
p. 411 (1914), I see Herr Kiikenthal refers the C. Goodenowii var. 
as nearest to 1 C. vulgaris Fr., var. stridiformis Bailey.’ He is our 
best authority on the Cyperacese, and to differ from him is almost 
a verdict of ‘guilty.’ But in this case 1 hardly think he is right. 
Bailey described his plant in “Mem. Torrey Bot. Club,” Yol I., 
No. 1, 25, 5 (1889). He says, ‘Tall and lax (1^ to 2| ft. high) ; 
the leaves long and narrow ; staminate spike longer than in the 
species ; the perigynia never being so densely packed and usually 
becoming browner. This plant stands midway between C. vulgaris 
and C. strida. From the latter it is distinguished by not growing 
in tufts, by its narrower and smoother leaves, and by its very 
obtuse black or brown and white nerved short scales.’ In your 
plant to me the leaves are too broad for Bailey’s plant, but 1 
admit I have not seen specimens lately .... At present I will 
keep my name.” — A.B, 
