570 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
setaceous stems and excessively small heads (a starved plant). 
Hc/eocharis uniglwnis, Reich., ‘Ic.,’t. 296, fig. 703, which is I presume 
Marshall’s No. 1967, has a 2-fid style; it is reckoned by Bentham 
and Boeckeler =palustris , ‘ R. Br.’ It is diagnosed as differing by 
the lowest bract sheathing the culm nearly (or quite) all the way round 
at base ; an indefinite character that cannot be worked. All the 
examples that at all distinctly can be referred to this form u night mis, 
come from North Temperate and Sub-Arctic Europe. Marshall’s 
No. 1967 may do very well for it. The Scirpus multicaulis, Smith, 
had a quantity of Eleoch. palustris mixed with it, which got marked 
£< uniglumis S When I first looked through the Eleocharis uniglumis 
(both at Kew and the British Museum), one-third of it (I speak from 
memory) was E. multicaulis. All the South Europe uniglumis , from 
Italian Alps, Spain, and Atlas Mountains, is E. multicaulis ; and the 
analyses and full arguments shewing E. uniglumis distinct from 
E. palustris are many of them correct — the two are abundantly 
distinct — only the uniglumis really treated of is E. multicaulis .” — 
C. B. Clarke, 19th March 1898. 
Eleocharis uniglwnis, Reichb. f. ? or perhaps only a form of E. 
palustris. Coast marsh, Tain, East Ross, nth August 1897. — W. A. 
Shoolbred. “E. uniglumis, Link, large form.” — W. R. Linton. “Is 
E. palustris, R. Br.” — C. B. Clarke. 
Eleocharis multicaulis, Sm. Burnham Beeches, 1892. New county 
record. — G. C. Druce. “Eleocharis multicaulis, Smith, ‘Engl. FI.,’ 
v., 1 (1824), p. 64, diagnosed by stigmas 3. Eleoch. palustris, R. Br., 
Smith, l.c., diagnosed by stigmas 2. These are right. I have never 
yet seen E. palustris with 3-fid style, or E. multicaulis with 2-fid. 
Scirpus multicaulis, Smith (1800), is not precisely defined in the 
diagnosis, nor is any one of the plates cited decisive ; I have reason 
to believe that it was (in considerable degree) Eleo. palustris, R. Br.” — 
C. B. Clarke. 
Scirpus sp. Pool on the sandhills, Birkdale, Lancashire, 20th 
August 1897. I gathered this under the impression that it was 
a submerged barren form of Eleocharis multicaulis. There is no 
indication of the formation of fruit ; although in close proximity 
E. uniglumis and Scirpus rufus , which flower about the same time, 
had well developed, and in some cases quite ripe nuts. From an 
inspection of dried specimens, Mr. J. Groves suggests that it is 
Scirhus Savii. It grew in very deep pools on the sandhills, and was 
entirely submerged, having the appearance of a very slender Isoetes 
at the bottom of the water.— J. A. Wheldon. “ S. Savii, Seb. et 
Maur.” — w. R. Linton. “ The example (so far as it goes) agrees 
very perfectly with S. cernuus, Vahl.” [i.e. Savii, Seb. et Maur.] — 
C. B. Clarke. “S. cernuus is the S. setaceus of the Linnaean Herbarium, 
and partly of the ‘Species Plantarum.’ Those botanists who reject 
Epilobiwn alpinum for later names, may perhaps feel it necessary, 
in order to be consistent, to reject S. setaceus , L.” — G. C. Druce. 
