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1879. Mr- James Cunnack also sends a plant, similarly named, from 
Constantine, near Helston, July, 1879, with fully formed seeds, 
which Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs says is the type form of L. pilosa. 
Dr, Boswell also names it ordinary pilosa. 
Scirpus fluitans , L. Sent by Mr. W. H. Beeby from a pool 
adjoining Hedge Court Mill Pond, Surrey, 28th September, 1879, to 
show the totally submerged state. “The pool in which the plant 
grew was clear, and deep, and apparently a spring.” 
Carex vulpina L. b. nemorosa, Rebentisch. Mr. G. C. Druce 
sends a plant named C. nemorosa , Rebent., from Fotheringay, North- 
amptonshire, July, 1879. It is the plant figured in Reichenbach’s 
“ leones Florae Germanicae,” Vol. vm, Tab. ccxvi, 563, and is 
separated from typical vulpina by the following characters : — “ gracilior, 
pallidior, spicae minores remotiusculae, bracteae spiculas inferiores 
excedentes setaceae.” Prof. Babington reports : — “ I have similar 
specimens, and have marked one of them as nemorosa. Boott 
figures it from Battersea fields, and does not consider it as worthy of 
distinction as a variety. I quite agree with him.” 
Carex Bcenninghauseniatia, Weihe. Sent by Mr. T. R. Archer 
Briggs from a drain below a hedgebank, between Caton and Penquit, 
South Devon, 18th July, 1879. 
Carex ovalis , Good. var. bracteata. Mr. W. H. Beeby sends 
this variety from Pease Marsh, Godaiming, Surrey, 24th August, 1879. 
Prof. Babington says : — “ I have this from Hampshire, Mr. Towns- 
end. Surely not worthy of notice as a variety.” 
Carex flava, L., var. argillacea , Townsend. Mr. F. Townsend 
sends a plant thus named, which flowers twice a year, from Parkhurst 
Forest, Isle of Wight, 1st to 10th September, 1879. Dr. Boswell 
calls it a luxuriant form of C. lepidocarpa. 
Air a coespitosa , Linn. b. brevifolia , Parnell. Sent by Dr. R. L. 
Baker and Dr. J. Fraser, from Whitnash, Warwickshire, July, 1879, 
and Dr. Fraser also sends it from two localities in Staffordshire, 
Penn Common, 1st September, 1879, and Oakamoor, 12th August, 
1879. Mr. Baker writes: — “Mr. Nicholson looked at Parnell’s type 
at the Linnean Society, the other day, and repudiates these. The 
true plant has a shorter stiffer panicle and larger florets.” 
Poa glauca, Smith? One specimen sent by Mr. A. Bennett 
from a “ root received from Mr. Mitten, under the name of Poa 
glauca, Sm., with the information that it came from Snowdon, Wales. 
As Dr. Boswell speaks somewhat doubtfully as to Snowdon, it may 
be of use sending this unless it is only nenioralis montane form.” 
Dr. Boswell says : — “ I would call this P. nemoralis var. glaucanthus 
Reich, E. B., Ed. iii, not P. glauca Smith, but I should much like to 
have a plant to cultivate.” 
Poa nemoralis , b. Parnellii. Sent by Mr. J. P. Soutter from 
basaltic rocks, High Force, Teesdale, South Durham, 2nd August, 
1879. Prof. Babington thinks it may be the plant, but the specimens 
are not satisfactory. 
Festuca ambigua , Le Gall. ( Vulpia ciliata Link, var. glabra). 
Sent by Mr. A. Bennett as additional to Vice-County 26, from 
Thetford Heath, West Suffolk, July, 1879. I n sandy banks, growing 
with Veronica verna and Medicago minima. 
