38 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Koeleria albescens . St. Brelade’s Bay, Jersey, June, 1879. — J. 
Cosmo Melyill. I have no hesitation in calling this Koeleria 
cristata; it certainly is not K. albescens , D.C., a type specimen of 
which, thanks to the courtesy of M. Casimir de Candolle, I received 
some time ago from Geneva. The true albescens is a much smaller 
plant than that now noticed, and its true characteristics seem fairly 
given by Boreau, Flore du Centre, 3 me ed., tome i er , p. 718. Mr. 
Melvill’s plant does not differ from specimens collected by myself 
in several inland as well as maritime localities, and named K 
cristata by our great British authority on Grasses, the late General 
Munro. — George Nicholson. 
Festuca ovina , L., var. glauca. Close turf, Herefordshire Beacon, 
Malvern Hills, Herefordshire, 20th May, 1880. — Augustin Ley. 
I should not separate from the type. — C. C. Babington. I should 
have called this the ordinary form, and not glauca , but the glaucous 
colour may have faded in drying ; the true var. glauca has usually 
leaves much firmer, and, as far as I have seen, is confined to the 
neighbourhood of the coast. — J. T. Boswell. 
Bromus asper , Murr., approaching Beneke?iii. Limestone woods, 
Great Doward, Herefordshire, 27th July, 1880. This variety of 
asper , whether Benekenii or not, is distinguishable at a glance from 
the ordinary form, and when growing together, subject to the same 
conditions of light and moisture, it is uniformly about a week 
in advance of the ordinary form. I have never noticed any inter- 
mediates, although having come across the variety at as many as ten 
different stations in Herefordshire and other counties during the last 
few years, unless weak panicles of asper , thrown up in late autumn, 
are to be counted so. These often have the upper sheath glabrous, 
and the lower panicle branches, which are seldom more than two, 
curved upwards, as in var. Benekenii , not divaricate nor deflexed as 
in ordinary asper. Has any botanist noticed the “little scale” 
mentioned by Dr. Trimen, in Journ. Bot., vol. x., p. 333, as supporting 
the ramifications of the inflorescence in these two grasses ? I have 
repeatedly searched for it, and only once discovered it in ordinary 
asper , when it answered admirably to the description there quoted 
from Lange ; never in the present variety. — Augustin Ley. I have 
read over the Rev. Augustin Ley’s notes, and in them I see he 
says that in late autumn weak panicles of asper often have the 
upper sheath glabrous ; if this be so, I think we must abandon 
Benekenii as a possible sub-species, as it is the only character I 
have found which is not variable in plants raised from seeds from 
the same individual plant. — J. T. Boswell. This seems to show that 
Benekenii is not worth attention, unless it is something unknown to 
me. — C. C. Babington. 
Asplenium germanicum , Weiss. Pass of Llanberis, June, 1871. 
This is not the Swiss plant that goes by the name A. germanicujn or 
A. alter fiifolium , which is brittle and more slender, has generally an 
upright growth, and is surrounded by a thick girth of the stumps of 
last year’s fronds j it is also of a dull green. The Llanberis plant is 
somewhat tough and broader, and the fronds arch away from the 
centre, and are varnished like A. septentrionale. I saw no surrounding 
of old broken-off fronds. On taking the Llanberis plant to Kew, a 
