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Orchis laxiflora L. St. Ouen’s Pond, Jersey, June 17, 1923. 
W. 0. Barton. 
Asparagus maritimus Miller. Granite sea cliffs, La, Moye, 
-Jersey, June 6, 1896.— J. W. White. 
A. officinalis L. a hortensis. Sea sands, Burnham, N. Somer- 
set, Aug. 12, 1884. — J. W. White. In the copious interesting 
notes on Asparagus officinalis in Mr. White’s “ Flora of Bristol,” 
we read : “The whole of our plants belong to var. altilis [L.] — 
identical with the cultivated form of Asparagus There is 
no character by which altilis can be .separated from the other 
form of the species, save its erect, long-branched habit of growth ; 
maritimus having a shorter, stouter and decumbent stem or 
frond If not indigenous it must indeed be thoroughly 
naturalized in the vicinity of Bristol, having a practically con- 
tinuous record of nearly tlnee hundred years.” E. S. Marshall 
was also led to believe from observation on our own coast, and 
those of W. France, that the difference between the erect and 
prostrate forms is due to environment. — H.S.T. 
Juncus tenuis Willd. Lane sides near the old mill, Crow- 
borough Warren. E. Sussex, Sept. 12, 1923. This was in extra- 
ordinary abundance, forming the herbage by the lane sides for a 
considerable distance, and must have existed there for some 
time, and been a remarkable sight a month earlier when fresh 
and green. The inflorescence-branching varied a little, but as a 
rule the fruits were borne on elongated peduncles. This gave 
the plant a very different aspect from specimens gathered on 
Keigate Heath in 1916, where the heads were ± dense and com- 
pact without elongated bare branches. The latter may come 
under var. congestus G. Engelmann, but they did not seem to have 
the “pallida fusca” fruit ascribed to this variety by Buchenau 
(“Mon. June.,” 194, 1890). J. tenuis seems a somewhat elastic 
species, Buchenau, who enumerates several varieties and forms, 
stating— “ Planta in ramifleatione inflorescentive et numero florum 
valde variabilis .... Yarietates a me enumeratae fortasse pro 
pte tantum formae individuales sunt.” — C. E. Salmon. See Mr. 
Bennett’s note (W. B. E. C. Report, 1920) on the very remark- 
able spread of the plant in Great Britain and Ireland. — H.S.T. 
J. cliffusus Hoppe. ( effusus x inflexus). Near Effingham, 
Surrey, Aug. 18, 1923. — L. B. Hall. Yes. The pith is con- 
tinuous. A little more material would have been welcome. — 
J.E.L. Yes, the sterile state of this hybrid ; the fertile form is 
less frequent. — C.E.S. 
