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webbed florets, and is therefore not subcompressa .” — C. C. Babington. 
“Is P. compressci ( genuina ), L.” — E. Hackel. Not P. subcompressa , 
Parnell, as the florets are not webbed. Not P. polynoda, Parnell, as 
the knots are not above half the height of the plant. The florets vary 
from five to three. It is probably a starved form of type P. compressa , 
L. agg.— Ed. 
Poa compressa , L., var. polynoda (Parnell). The presence of this 
grass in West Sussex is attested in ‘ Top. Botd by ‘Borrer?’ a record 
seemingly in need of the confirmation afforded by these specimens. 
The locality, rough pasture, south of Rudgwick, W. Sussex, is a 
piece of enclosed common, undrained and infertile, where the Poa, 
accompanied by few other grasses, grows thickly over four acres. If 
the var. polynoda is not to be entirely dropped, I think these plants 
should be so named, August, 1888. — J. Walter White. Parnell 
described polynoda as a species. Babington reduced it to a variety. — 
Ed. “ I think it is polynoda .” — C. C. Babington. “Is compressa , L. 
genuina — E. Hackel. 
P. compressa , L , luxuriant specimens. Potterspury, Northampton- 
shire, July, 1888. — G. C. Druce. “ True compressa, L.” — E. Hackel. 
A trivialis , L. b. Kceleri (DC.). Barningham, Suffolk, W., 24th 
June, 1888. — E. F. Linton. “ P. trivialis , L. v. Koeleri, Syme ! = 
P. trivialis , L., var. glabra, Doell, ‘Rhein. Fid 92.” — E. Hackel. 
Glyceria plicata, Fr. Oxford, July, 1887. See ‘FI. Oxf., 5 p. 349. 
— G. C. Druce. New record for County 23. 
F. ovina, L., var .paludosa, Gaud. Sunninghill, Berks., July, 1887. 
— G. C. Druce. 
F. sciuroides, Roth. Chazey Farm, Oxon, July, 1886. — G. C. 
Druce. “ Yes,” — E. Hackel. A very luxuriant form. 
F. jallax, Th. A shade form, with very long and almost capillary 
leaves. — If a good variety, it may be that known as pseudo-rubra on 
the continent — not by any means freely flowering. Shady hedge 
bank, near Chislehurst, Kent, August, 1888 . — Eyre de Crespigny. 
“ Is F rubra, genuina , ad var. fallax vergens ; but there were some 
short runners at the root of one of the stems.” — E. Hackel. 
F rubra, L. var. fallax, Hack. Stow Wood, Oxon., June, 1887. 
— G. C. Druce. This appears to dispose of No. 1728 in London 
Catalogue, for, I suppose, it is Thuillier’s plant, which Prof. Hackel 
thus describes, and reduces to a variety. 
Lolium x . Riverside, South Stoke, Oxon and Berks., 
July, 1888. — G. C. Druce. Probably loliacea. “ Is Festuca elatior x 
Lolium perenne = F elongata, Ehrh., F. loliacea , Curtis.” — E. Hackel. 
Bromus erectus, Huds., var. pubescens, mihi. From two localities 
in Surrey; may not be infrequent. Foot of Reigate Hill, Surrey, 
July, 1888 [on note 1886 on label, which has also subvillosus on it]. — 
Eyre de Crespigny. Parnell described a var. hirsutus, which is, I 
suppose, the same as Babington’s var. villosus. — Ed. “ Is B. erectus, 
Huds., var. subvillosus , Regel.” — E. Hackel. 
B erectus, Huds. Riverside, Oxford, August, 1885. — G. C. Druce. 
B. madritensis , L. St. Vincent’s Rocks, Gloster, W., August, 
1879. — G. C. Druce. 
