98 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Carex speirostachya , var. sterilis. Rough field, Llangattock, 
Monmouthshire, 22nd August, 1883. Growing in large quantities in 
a rough wet pasture, along with C. panicea , vulgaris , and (sparingly) 
typical speirostachya. It was well marked by a lighter green, more 
tufted foliage; and had the perigynia uniformly empty. — A ugustin 
Ley. 
Carex nparia , Curt. Ponning, Berks., May, 1883. A form not 
unfrequent with the upper spikes having a few female flowers. In 
Oxfordshire riparia is a very variable sedge. — G. C. Druce. “This 
is only a case where female flowers take the place of nearly all the 
male ones — cnfr. Boott for numerous examples among the Heteros- 
tachyeceP — Arthur Bennett. 
C. vesicaria , L . forma pendula. Bog in Worth Forest, E. Sussex, 
May 24th, 1883. Swamp by Hedge Court Millpond, Surrey. May 
and June, 1883. The more extreme forms are very distinct in 
appearance, the peduncle often even exceeding its spike in length. 
Intermediate states occur, the various forms growing in large masses 
and not mixed. — W. H. Beeby. 
Carex vesicaria , L. var. ? or hybrid with ampullacea ? By Wire Mill 
Pond, Surrey, June 10th, 1883. Almost or quite sterile. The very 
few (apparently perfect) nuts that I have been able to find resemble 
those of C. vesicaria , but are smaller. The leaves are those of robust 
vesicaria , but the perigyinum shows considerable approach to ampul- 
lacea. I cannot detect the latter plant ( C. vesicaria is abundant,) in 
the immediate vicinity, but it occurs within a few miles. The plant 
was of a very dark, somewhat translucent green. — W. H. Beeby. 
Agrostis “nigra, With,” Bab. In a field of oats called the 
“ Golflea,” at Balmuto, Fife. I have no doubt whatever that this 
form is not even a variety of Agrostis vulgaris , but merely that plant 
growing in cultivated soil. All round the margin of the field the 
common form of a, vulgaris occurs. — J. T. Boswell. 
Bromus mollis , L., a partially glabrous form. In very dry soil on 
wall tops by Bigbury Bay, near Ringmore, S. Devon, May 25, 
1883. — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
Lepturus filiformis, Trin. pseudo-incurvatus , mihi, Benfleet, Essex, 
1883 . — Eyre de Crespigny. Ordinary L. incurvatus , Trin. 
Lycopodium annotinum , L. Hill side, west side of White Glen, 
Wart Hill, Hoy, Orkney, Aug. 31, 1883. — H. H. Johnston. Alter 
to south-west side. — H. H. J. Moist moor, near Brae mar, Aber- 
deen, S., 1,600 ft., Aug. 13, 1883. — E. F. Linton. 
Equisetum alpestre , Wahl. South slopes of Tolmount, Forfar, 
July, 1883. This Equisetum occured sparingly on the south slopes of 
Tolmount, Forfar, on ground from which the snow had only recently 
disappeared at an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet. A similar plant 
occurred on Cairn of Daimh, East Perth, at about 2,000 feet, the 
secund habit being better shown, but the barren stem was longer, 
nearly four inches long. By an error the var. alpestre was put under 
pratense in the London Catalogue instead of arvense. There seems 
little in the variety worth distinctive notice. — G. C. Druce. 
Char a fragilis, var. Hedwigii. Epping Forest. — E yre de Cres- 
pigny. “ C. fragilis , approaching var. capillaceaP — H. and J. Groves. 
