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elevation of some 2,800 feet. — W. R. Linton. “ It is impossible to 
name or limit the variable states of this species, anyhow, at 
present.” — Arthur Bennett. 
Car ex Goodenowii, J. Gay. Form approaching wax. juncella, Fr. 
Brailsford, S. Derbyshire, 17th June, 1889. — W. R. Linton. “ May 
pass.” — Arthur Bennett. 
C. Goodenowii , J. Gay, var., juncella , Fr. ? Alstonfield, &c., 
North Staffordshire, 1889. I have not, I think, noticed a record of 
C. juncella for this county and some at least of these specimens will 
be entitled to the name. The specimens were all growing in tufts 
over a good-sized piece of wet ground. — W. H. Purchas. “There 
are two plants from Alstonfield, one I should label ‘ Goodenowii form ’ 
only, the other is undoubtedly close to var. juncella ; the Beresford 
plant is a remarkably elongated form of Goodenowii .” — Arthur 
Bennett. I take the opportunity afforded by the foregoing remarks 
of contributor and referee to enter a protest against the not uncommon 
practice of sending different forms of a critical plant to the Club 
without enclosing them in separate covers. To the collector it should 
be comparatively easy to separate the forms, but to the distributors, 
who are not usually less busy persons than other members, it is often 
a difficult task and one which certainly should not devolve upon 
them. — J.G. 
C. elytroides , Fr. Near Holyhead, Anglesey, May, 1889. See 
Journal of Botany, April, 1889. — J. E. Griffith. 
C. montana , Linn., fide A. Bennett. Markland Grips, near 
Clowne, Derbyshire, June, 1889. — Coll. C. Waterfall comm. W. 
H. Painter. 
C. pilulifera, Linn, bracteate form. Braemar and Clova, 1889. — 
E. F. and W. R. Linton. Mr. Bennett writes of the Braemar plant 
“ An approach to the var. longebracteata , Lange, but only such.” Of 
the Clova plant he writes “You may call this a ‘bracteate form’ but 
equally bracteate forms occur almost anywhere among a large series 
of the plant.” 
C. fulva x CEderi, Ehrh. Clova valley, near Bradoonie, Forfar, 
July, 1889. Recent seasons have been favourable to the production 
of this hybrid in the Clova valley, for we have found plenty of it in 
two spots a mile or two apart. We believe it to be the same hybrid 
in each case. The flava parent was taken from one of the localities, 
and our friend, Mr. Arthur Bennett, named it for us as C. CEderi , 
Ehrh. We have, therefore, labelled it as above instead of calling it 
C. sterilis or C. xanthocarpa , Degl. ; and indeed we prefer the 
mode of labelling a hybrid with the name of its parent plants rather 
than with a third name, which suggests no hybrid origin. The 
plants now forwarded resembled C. flava (or C. CEderi) in their 
yellow-green colour, and more leafy growth ; but were still more like 
C. fulva in habit ; they were easily separated, however, from the latter, 
not only by colour, but by their hollow fruit, which collapsed when 
pinched ; and whereas C. fulva has invariably (or almost so) two 
female spikelets at most, the hybrid frequently has three. We found 
a similar hybrid at Braemar about a fortnight later, but have not had 
