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radical clusters of leaves characteristic of that sub-species ; the 
third a broad ovate-leaved form simulating E. latifolia in general 
ai)pearanco, but with a long corolla tube ; the fourth form is the 
sub-species E. j)ulchella, which grows larger here than I have ever 
seen it elsewhere. One specimen gathered on the 27th Jvdy, 1887, 
is ten indies in height. 
JuNCus NIGR1TELLU.S, Auct. Aiig. (iion Don). Of this Eush 
I have a very fine series sent at different times by Dr. Long, as well 
as specimens of my own collecting at Wells in July last. Between 
some of these and specimens from Harlech collected by Mr. 
C. Bailey, F.L.S., and also from the Scilly Isles, I can find 
no difference at all, and all of them appear to bo simply a maritime 
variety of J. lumprocarpus. Of J. niijrifellus, I). Don, there are 
three good specimens in the Salmon Herbarium in the Xorfolk and 
Norwich Museum, collected by Gr. Chambers at End Side Tarn, 
West Cumberland. Two of these might have been used as the 
models for part of Don’s own plate in the E. B. S. (No. 2613) ; 
and the third I think would have been named Juncus alpimis, 
Vill, without much hesitation, had it been found on the continent 
instead of in England. As these three specimens were no doubt 
gathered at the same time and place, we have hero a confirmation 
of the opinion which has been expressed by Afr. Beeby, A.L.S., that 
Don’s plant is a variety of J. alphius ; and this opinion recalls that 
expressed by La Harpe long ago, and alluded to by I). Don in 
his article in E. B. S., that it is a variety of J. usttclatiis, 
Hoppe. However this question may bo ultimately settled, 
I think that both the habit of growth and the shape of the 
capsules is too different in the plants from Wells and from 
End Side Tarn to regard them both as the same variety of any 
one species. 
Genus Agropyron. I find at Cley and Wells four maritime 
forms of this genus, which I believe to be 
A. puxGENS, R and S. 
„ „ var. b. LiTTORALE (Reich). 
„ ACUTUM. 
„ JUNCEUM, BeAUV. 
The first is a compact upright, almost bristly, plant, which 
is very abundant at Cley ; the second is lax, the stems partially 
decumbent at the base, the plumes acuminate, or almost awned ; 
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