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gathered on very wet spots by the Trent near Armitage, Staffordshire, 
and which seems identical with our Warwickshire gatherings. Dr. 
Buchenan also mentions this plant in his ‘Flora von Bremen/ 1879, 
p. 272. I should be glad to know if any botanist has noticed A. 
hybridus in other localities. The plant is worth further study, and 
will probably prove to be generally distributed. As a point in favour of 
its hybrid origin, I may state that we found both A. pratensis and geni- 
culatus growing at the Kenilworth locality, and the plant has also been 
fonnd near Reichenbach, in Silesia, in company with these species.” — 
A. B. Jackson. “The question of hybridity suggested is a difficult 
one, and one upon which Wimmer himself was not satisfied. In 
Mr. Bromwich’s plant (or rather the specimen submitted to me, 
which is rather young for comparison, the anthers not yet being out or 
even quite mature), I see no convincing evidence of A. geniculatus , 
nothing indeed to separate it from A. pratensis , of which it appears 
to be a weak, straggling specimen, such as a wet meadow with a heavy 
crop of grass partly laid might be expected to produce.” — E. F. 
Linton. 
Agrostis pumila , L. Sandy heath near Aldringham, E. Suffolk, 
1 8th July 1900. — James Groves. 
Poa compressa , L. Walton, S. Lancashire, v.-c. 59, July 1900. 
By the edges of footpaths near the railway, Glasson Dock, W. Lanca- 
shire, v.-c. 60, August 1900, This grass appears to be rare in 
Lancashire. It is not recorded in the ‘ Floras ’ of Buxton or Dick- 
inson ; nor in ‘Top. Bot./ ed. ii., for these vice-counties. — J. A. 
W heldon. 
Glyceria plicata , Fr., var. pedicellata, Towns. Llanwrtyd Wells, 
Brecon, June 1900. — W. H. Painter. “Is G. fluitans R. Br.’ — 
Townsend. 
Festuca glauca , Lan. St. Bees Head, Cumberland, 15th June 
1900; coll. Harold Adair; com. Joseph Adair. “I thought this 
was a form ( barbata ) of F. rubra , and Dr. Hackel concurs.” — G. C. 
Druce. 
F. rigida, Kunth. Near Glasson Dock, W. Lancashire, August 
1900.- — J. A. Wheldon. 
Bromus comniutatus , Schrad., x Lolium perenne , L., nov. hybr. 
Avon Meadows, Burton, near Christchurch, S. Hants, 9th July 1900. 
Growing in a rather dense mass in a slight hollow which would some- 
times be inundated, not many yards (rom the R. Avon, this grass 
caught my eye as bearing some resemblance to Festuca pratensis x 
Lolium perenne , which i had noticed in an adjoining meadow, but 
conspicuously differing in the broader bulging spikelets not closely 
appressed to the rachis. The habit was decumbent, but all the grass 
where it grew was lain, overcome by its own luxuriance. Lolium 
perenne w r as the obvious factor, and the othei was easily lecognised, 
