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— W. Biddiscombe. Festuca loliacea Huds. Yes. W. 0. 
Howarth. The right plant, but the name was written Festuca 
loliacea x Huds. FI. Angl. I., 38. In the London Cat. XI, 
the name is written F . pratensis X Lolium perenne ( loliacea 
Curt.). This is somewhat cumbersome, but gives a good 
idea of the origin of the plant, which is scattered in widely 
separated colonies, as hybrids usually are. — J. Fraser. 
Bromus secalimis L. var. velutinus (Schrad.). In a field of 
rye, behind the Half Moon Inn, Thursley, Surrey, June 27, 
1927. Is not this variety much commoner than the type ? 
— I. A. Williams. I consider this to be Bromus hordeaceus L. 
= B. mollis L. — A. 0. Howarth. It is interesting to note 
that “ Roadside, near Thursley, I. A. Williams, 1928,” is 
among the various Surrey stations where Mr. Williams 
new species, B. britannicus, has been found. (See Journ. 
Bot., 1929, 65.) — H. S. Thompson. 
Brachypodmm sylvaticum [2825] var. glabrescens Syme. 
Near Westhumble, Surrey, Aug. 15, 1925. — C. E. Britton. 
Comm. S. London Bot. Inst. The variety is rightly enough 
named, but different authorities have been quoted both for 
it and the type. The glumes have lost their hairs, but the 
nerves are more or less scabrid near the apex of the glumes, 
just where the nerves become prominent. — J. Fraser. 
Brachypodium sylvaticum R. and S. var. glabrescens Syme. 
[Ref. 1283]. Lane-side near Burrows Cross, Shere, Surrey, 
July 31, 1927. It occurs in several places in this part of 
Surrey. — E. C. Wallace. Yes. — W. O. Howarth. The spike- 
lets are finely but plentifully hairy, so it clearly cannot come 
under the glabrescens of Syme. I think it must be a rare 
state. Syme says it occurs in Fife. I have examples from 
Orkney. Syme’s variety is antedated by Cosson and 
Germain’s var. glabrescens, evidently the same thing. — C. E. 
Salmon. 
Agropyron pungens Roem. and Schult. Bank of Avon, 
Sea Mills, Bristol, W. Gloster., v.c. 34, July 26, 1928. — Ida 
M. Roper. Correct. — A. Bennett. My specimen is right 
as to the species, but the flowering glume has a short but 
distinct awn, which I presume makes it the variety littorale 
(Reichb.) and Triticum littorale Host. — J. Fraser. I should 
place this under A. acutum R. and S., that is, under Triticum 
