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Deschampsia ccespitosci , Beauv. var. psendo-alpina , Syme. Horses 
Glen, Mangerton, Kerry, 14th August, 1888. — R. W. Scully. 
Confirmed by Prof. Hackel. 
D. ccespitosa , Beauv. var. pallida, Koch. Clova, Forfar, nth July, 
1889. Growing among a great quantity of D. ccespitosa of the ordinary 
hue, and in an open meadow, and therefore not to be explained away 
as merely a £ shade grown form ’ as was done with regard to this variety 
in B. E. C. Report for 1887. — E. F. and W. R. Linton. Confirmed 
by Prof. Hackel. 
A vena fatua , Linn., var. inter media, Lindgr. In clover crop, Sellack, 
Herefordshire, 17th and 19th September, 1889. — Augustin Ley. 
Cornfield, Ufton, Warwickshire, August, 1889. — H. Bromwich. Both 
confirmed by Prof. Hackel. 
Kceleria cristata , Pers. var. gracilis ? Croxton, Thetford, Norfolk, 
14th June, 1889. — H. D. Geldart. u K. cristata , P. genuinaP — 
E. Hackel. 
Dactylis glonierata, Linn. Birstal, Leicestershire, June and 
July, 1889. This common grass varies so much in 'the size 
and form of the panicle that I have arranged half-a-dozen sets to 
show the extreme and intermediate conditions. The “ luxuriant 
wood form with erect panicle ” must be rather uncommon, I suppose. 
I have only observed it in one spinney near to my house. In this 
little plantation Dactylis flourishes, and the flowering stems are often 
six feet high. Tufts producing panicles, both with spreading and 
with erect branches, grow here abundantly, but the two forms are not 
produced from the same tufts, and they are permanent, not phases 
due to different stages of maturity.— F. T. Mott. Of the two wood 
forms sent by Mr. Mott, Prof. Hackel remarks : — “ These forms do 
not agree exactly with the wood forms called D. glomerata var. lobata 
Drej., nor with var. flaccidaP 
D. glomerata , Linn. var. congesta , Coss. et Germ. Great Orme’s 
Head, Carnarvonshire, May, 1889. — J. E. Griffith. Prof. Hackel 
writes: — “var. abbreviata Bernh. is an older name.” 
Poa nemoralis , Linn. Near Braemar, S. Aberdeen, 25th July, 1889. 
“ A variety only slightly departing from the type.” Prof. Hackel. — 
E. F. and Wm. R. Linton. 
P.compressa , Linn. var. polynoda,(¥zm.)} Yeldersley, S. Derbyshire, 
20th June, 1889. This plant agreed with the book description of the 
variety in respect of the venation of the pale and position of the upper 
node, but book descriptions being so generally inadequate in anything 
of at all a critical character, I have only labelled it interrogatively. — 
Wm. R. Linton. Prof. Hackel writes of this : — “ Common P. 
compressa , L.” 
Glyceria pedicel! at a, Towns. Abbotsleigh, North Somerset, 7 th 
June. 1889. A grass that has been named pedicellata , and that 
possesses the chief characters said to mark the variety. But trifling 
deviations from the typ z ftuitans, shading imperceptibly one into the 
other, are so frequent that I find much difficulty in laying hold of any 
salient points of distinction. It seems to come out clearly, however, 
that we should follow Syme in concluding that pedicellata would more 
