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specimen, should be pulled to pieces, and the perianth-segments, 
stigmas, &c., dried separately. — Geo. Nicholson. 
Luzula pilosa , Willdi, var. Borreri. Bishopswood, Herefordshire, 
17th May, 1880. — Augustin Ley. Luzula Borreri is not properly 
distinguished from pilosa. The specimen is too young. — C. C. 
Babington. 
Juncus lamp rocar pus, Ehrh. In damp sandy places on the coast, 
below Harlech Castle, W. Merionethshire, 19th July, 1880. — Charles 
Bailey. Seems to me to be nigritellus (see E. B. S., 2643). — C. C, 
Babington. This might almost be called nigritellus , which, however, 
I believe to be dependent on conditions of growth. — J. T. Boswell. 
Carex rupestr is, All. Little Craigindal, Aberdeen, July, 1880. — 
B. King. 
Car ex fulva, Good., var. sterilis , E. B., ed. iii. Swanbister, 
Orphir, Orkney, August, 1880. — J. T. Boswell. 
Carex fulva, Good., var. speirostachya. Olchon Dingle, Here- 
fordshire, 17th June, 1880. — Augustin Ley. This is the C. 
Hornschucliiana , Hoppe, which name has the priority of C. speiro- 
stachya , Sm. The late Mr. Pryor has shown in his valuable paper 
in the Journal of Botany (1876, p. 35) that it cannot be included 
under C. fulva , Good., which name, if retained, would appear to be 
applicable to the series of plants nearer allied to C. flava, probably 
including C. xanthocarpa, Degl. — J. G. 
Spartina Townsendi nobis. Plant 1^-4 feet high. Leaves 
falling short of the spikes ; lamina almost flat, broadest at the base, 
jointed to the sheath. Spikes usually 4-9, somewhat spreading, 
4-7 inches long ; spikelets 1 5-30, imbricate, but not crowded j 
glumes slightly hairy on the keel ; rachis exceeding the last spikelet. 
This is the plant referred to by us in the Journal of Botany for 
1879, P- 277, as a form of S. stricla ; it, however, occupies so inter- 
mediate a position between that species and S. alternifiora, that it 
appears desirable not to include it under either. S. Townsendi differs 
from S. alternifiora by its more slender stem, leaves falling short of 
the spikes, and the laminae being jointed to the sheaths ; from S. stricta 
by its much greater size, longer and more numerous spikes, and by 
the rachis much exceeding the last spikelet. It grows in denser 
patches than either, and is noticeable among the alternifiora by its 
taller stems and yellower flowers. Our plant agrees in some respects 
with the S. stricta, var. glabra , of Asa Gray’s Manual ; from 
Muhlenberg’s description, we think his S. glabra should be referred 
to S. alternifiora, but have seen no specimens. Mud flats, near 
Hythe, South Hants. — H. and J. Groves. 
Phleum pratense, L., var. near serotinum, Jord. Kew, Surrey, 
August, 1880. — J. G. Baker. 
Aira , Ben Voirlich, Perthshire, 1878. — J. Cosmo Melvill. 
A. flexuosa, a very interesting form ; it has three perfect flowers in a 
spikelet, and I never saw such a thing before. In the sections of 
Aira as characterized in the English Botany, & c., the mark most 
insisted upon is that Descha 77 ipsia has two perfect flowers and a 
rudimentary third, and that in Ave 7 iella (flexuosa ) the rudimentary 
third is absent ; in this specimen it is not only present, but fully 
developed. — J. G. Baker. A single specimen. — J. G. 
