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Chara hispida , L., Groves. 69. In a pit on the cemetery road, 
Silverdale, Lake Lancashire, 29th May, 1890. “Apparently new to 
vice-county 69.” J. Groves. — Charles Bailey. 
Nitella opaca , Agardh., Groves. 106. In Loch Kinellan, Strath- 
peffer, East Rossshire, 29th July, 1890. — Charles Bailey. 
NOTES RELATING TO FORMER REPORTS. 
Rubies macro acanthus, Blox. Between Yeaveley and Stydd, Derby- 
shire, August, 1889. — E. F. Linton (see Report p. 249). Also sent 
in this year by W. R. Linton. Professor Babington writes apropos 
of this that “ Bloxam’s macroacanthus is only a name, no description. 
We cannot use it, as there is macroacanthus (W. and N.) in the way. 
I do not think your plant has anything to do with either rusticanus or 
pubescens. Is it not thyrsanthus ? I should call it so, and consider it 
as a form of R. thyrsoideusP I agree that it is a form nearly allied 
to R. thyrsoideus , but it can hardly be R. thyrsanthus , Focke ; for 
Dr. Focke has twice seen full specimens without suggesting that name. 
It is not Bloxam’s macroacanthus after all ; for Mr. Bagnall repudiates 
the specimens by which Mr. Moyle Rogers and I named it, and has 
kindly supplied me with specimens of Mr. Bloxam’s plant, which show 
how distinct from that our Stydd plant is. For the present it must 
wait. — E. F. Linton. 
Carexfulva x CEderi. Clova valley, Forfar, July, 1889. — E. F. 
and W. R. Linton. (See Report, pp. 273, 274.) Mr. Bennett 
remarked on this that it might be C. fulva , Good . ; and he did not 
see the suggested hybridity. All the same, I must take leave to say 
that the plants we sent to the Club were carefully selected hybrids 
between C. fulva and C. CEderi , Ehrh. ; there is no great difficulty 
in separating the hybrid from C. fulva in the fresh state ; but it may 
be more difficult in the dry. It is, perhaps, needless to distinguish 
this cross from C. xanthocarpa , Degl. — E. F. Linton. 
Alopecurus fulvus , Sm. Knypersley Reservoir, Staffs., 18th July, 
1888. — W. H. Painter. (See Report, p. 237.) The specimen that 
reached me of this gathering is A. geniculatus , L. ; so is that which 
was sent to my brother. Apparently the two grow together, for Mr. 
Druce tells me his specimen is correct ; and I have seen specimens 
gathered by Mr. Painter from the same place, which were undoubtedly 
A. fulvus, Sm. — E. F. Linton. 
