576 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Deschampsia alpina , Roem. and Schultes, ‘Syst.’ ii. (1817), 686. 
Plentiful in the ‘spout’ of Loch-na-gar, June 1896. — G. Claridge 
Druce. Also one specimen sent as Aira alpina , L., from the summit 
of the same hill, July 1878, by J. Cosmo Melvill. 
D. discolor , Roem. and Schultes, l.c. In a boggy place on the 
north side of the Dee near Braemar, South Aberdeen, June 1896. — 
G. Claridge Druce. 
Molinia varia , Schrank, var. major , Bab.? Simmonswood Moss, 
Lancashire, 18th August 1897; var .breviramosa, Parn.? Simmons- 
wood Moss, Lancashire, 18th August 1897. These two plants grew 
together almost to the exclusion of all other vegetation. The smaller 
compact form is not due to difference in situation, as it was scattered 
about amongst the taller plants and was easily distinguished by its 
greener colour, and denser, darker panicles, but it was much less 
plentiful. — J. A. Wheldon. “Professor Hackel marks both as 
correctly named. Parnell named his variety under M. coerulea. I 
named the latter plant M. varia , var. breviramosa (Parnell), in ‘Journ. 
Bot.,’ 1888, p. 25.” — G. Claridge Druce. 
Catabrosa aquaiica, Beauv., var. littoralis, Parn. Lag, Arran, vice- 
county 100, in moist shore sand, 23rd July 1897. — A. Somerville. 
Professor Hackel does not consider it to be a distinct variety. 
Poa nemoralis , L. var. Mountain rocks, Taren-r’-Esgob, Brecon- 
shire, July 1897. I believe this to be the same form as that sent from 
the Brecon Beacon in 1896. — Augustin Ley. “ Is var. Parnellii, 
Hook.”— E. Hackel. 
Poa compressa, L. Castlethorpe, Bucks. New to ‘Top. Bot’ — 
G. C. Druce. 
P. Chaixii, Vill. Abundant in a small copse, Leek Wootton, 
Warwick, 26th June 1897. I send this plant because I wish to draw 
attention to the fact of its having been found in several more or less 
wild localities during the past few years, and therefore seems worthy 
of a better position in our flora than has hitherto been accorded it. 
The plant occurs in great abundance in the above locality, to which 
I was kindly directed by my friend Mr. H. Bromwich, who has 
observed it here for many years. In the ‘Flora of Warwickshire ’ it 
is stated that the plant is only of casual occurrence here at Leek 
Wootton, but I see no reason for this supposition, as there is nothing 
suspicious about its habitat. This grass is placed in the list of 
excluded species in ‘ English Botany,’ where it is recorded from Kew 
grounds on the authority of Dr. Hooker, and from Warwick by Mr. 
Kirk, Comp. ‘ Cyb. Brit.,’ p. 594. Syme also states that he gathered 
the grass in Battersea fields in 1853, on mud dredged from the 
Thames, and in the same year he found it in the grounds of Chelsea 
