650 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Phalaris arundinacea, L., var. picta , L. Grand Val, St. Heliers, 
Jersey, 2nd September 1900. Professor Babington, in his ‘Primitim 
Florae Sarnicae,’ 1837, p. 106, says of this variety: “a few plants in 
company with the type in Guernsey, apparently indigenous.” Grand 
Mare, Guernsey, is given as the locality for Phalaris arundinacea. 
As neither of these are mentioned by Mr. E. D. Marquand in his 
list of Guernsey Flora (‘Guern. Soc. of Nat. Science,’ Report for 
1899), I conclude that either Prof. Babington must have been 
wrongly informed, or that the plants have become extinct there. In 
Jersey, P. arundinacea is found at the bottom of St. Peter’s Valley, in 
St. Aubin’s Bay ; f 3 picta, I have only found in a pond in Grand Val. 
— Stanley Guiton. 
P. minor, Retz. Greve d’Azette, St. Clements, Jersey, 13th June 
1900. In a very interesting article by Mr. C. R. P. Andrews, M.A., 
in the ‘Journal of Botany,’ vol. 38, p. 33, entitled “Two grasses new 
to the Channel Islands,” the author gives reasons for supposing 
Phalaris minor to be a native of the Channel Islands, — reasons with 
which I fully concur, which may be more apparent in Jersey. On the 
south coast, in waste and semi-cultivated ground, this fine grass is 
everywhere to be found.— Stanley Guiton. 
Alopecurus fulvus, Sm. Sutton Scarsdale Park, Derbyshire, 19th 
July 1900. New record for v.-c. — W. R. Linton 
A. hybridus, Wirnmer (A. pratensi-geniculatus , Wichuria). ‘ Flora 
von Nord und Mittel Deutschland,’ ed. vi., p. 438. Wet meadow by 
the Avon at Chesford Bridges, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, July 1900. — 
A. B. Jackson and H. Bromwich. “ My attention was first called to 
this interesting plant by Mr. Bromwich, who found it upon the banks 
of the Avon, near Warwick, and also at Chesford Bridge, near 
Kenilworth. Last year I sent a specimen to Prof. Hackel, who* 
named it as above, and says it is probably of hybrid origin. 
This summer we visited the Chesford Bridge locality. The meadow 
had recently been mown, but a good quantity of this grass was 
still to be found on the damp margin among other coarse herbage. 
It is remarkably distinct in appearance, and seemingly intermediate 
between A. geniculatus and pratensis, having the inflorescence of the 
latter (although the spikes vary considerably in size and thickness) and 
the habit of the former. But the stems are more straggling, often 
exceeding two feet in length. Other prominent characters are the 
highly glaucous leaf-sheaths -and long ligules. Mr. Arthur Bennett has 
favoured me with a description of this form, of which the following is 
a translation : “ Stem geniculate-ascending, glabrous ; ligule long, 
glumes hairy on the back, almost villous-ciliate, bluntish, obliquely 
truncate ; pales united below for a third of their length, obliquely 
truncate above, with a twisted or slightly geniculate awn.” This 
diagnosis fits our Warwickshire plant, but the glumes, both as regards 
shape and ciliation, do not differ materially from those of A. pratensis. 
Rev. H. P. Reader, of Rugeley, has sent me an Alopecurus which he 
