578 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
unexpected finds are reported from the Islands, Cheddar Pink for 
example, and many of the best Jersey plants are so difficult to 
discover unassisted, that it seems advisable to put this alien on record 
for the guidance of other botanists. — Jas. W. White. “Correctly 
named.” — E. Hackel. 
Brachypodium pinnatum , Beauv., var. pubescens, Syme ? Field 
near Chesterton Wood, Warwickshire, 18th July 1897. This series of 
specimens exhibits considerable variability as regards the pubescence 
of the spikelets. In a former report Professor Hackel remarks that 
in the true variety the glumes are hairy all over. In some of these 
examples now sent, the pubescence does not extend much beyond 
the margins of the glumes. — H. Bromwich and A. B. Jackson. 
“The specimen sent to Professor Hackel he says is correctly named. 
There is a B . pinnatum, var. pubescens, S. F. Gray, ‘Nat. Arr. Brit. PL,’ 
ii., 1 12 (1821), which is earlier than Syme.” — G. Claridge Druce. 
Agropyron sp. Immediately above the shore, Lag, Arran, vice- 
county 100, 24th August 1897. — A. Somerville. “ Seems to be 
A. junceum , Beauv.” — W. R. Linton. “ Triticum acutum is more 
correctly named T. laxum , Fries ; though this name applies to a form 
with more distant spikelets. But Triticum acutum, DC., from 
Southern France, is not quite the same as T. acutum of northern 
botanists, and therefore I should prefer the name of T. laxum , Fries; 
or write Agropyron acutum, Roem. and Schult., var. laxum (Fries sp.), 
forma densior, or the like. It is very difficult to give a short and good 
name for this form.” — E. Hackel. See ‘Annals of Scot. Nat. Hist.,’ 
April 1898. 
A. junceum , Beauv. On the sandhills between Marske and 
Saltburn, North-East Yorkshire, 7th July 1897. — Charles Bailev. 
Lastrea Thelypteris , Presl. Marshy thicket, Shirenewton, Mon- 
mouth, 15th June 1897. Previously recorded for Monmouthshire by the 
Rev. A. Ley, in the ‘ Flora of Herefordshire,’ from a single station on 
the border of the two counties, with a note that in 1884 it was nearly 
exterminated. — W. A. Shoolbred. 
L. Filix-mas , Presl., var. abbreviata , Bab. Ingleborough 
(at about 1500 feet), West Yorkshire, 25th August 1897.— J. A. 
Wheldon. “ Correct.” — E. G. Baker. “ The Dryopteris Filix-mas, 
Schott, var. abbreviataP — G. Claridge Druce. 
Equisetum sylvaticum , L., var. capillare (Hoffmann). Dunphail, 
county 95, Elgin, 12th August 1897.— E. S. Marshall. 
Isoetes echinospora, Dur. Loch Mor, near Betty Hill, West 
Sutherlandshire, vice-county 108, 20th July 1897. — W. A. Shoolbred. 
