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latitude. Although I have given some details of the Ayrshire record, 
there does not now appear to be any particular reason to expect that 
it will be confirmed.” — W. H. Beeby. 
Koileria cristata, Pers., var. gracilis, (Boreau). Sandy banks, 
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, 9th July, 1895. — \V. H. Beeby. 
“ Correctly named.” — E. Hackel. 
Catabrosa aquatica, Beauv. b. littoralis, Parn. Machrie Bay, 
Arran, on moist shore sand, 21st July, 1894. — A. Somerville. 
“ We get a similar form in Shetland, on moist sands by the sea. 
I have always regarded it as a state due to environment, and not 
a variety.” — W. H. Beeby. To this Professor Hackel replies : “ This 
is only a state, not a variety, of this very polymorphous plant. I 
have not at hand Parnell’s description, but var. minor, Bab. = var. 
subtilis. Hook, refers to the uniflorous state, while most of the 
spikelets in your specimen are biflorous. There is also a var. littoralis, 
Kittel, ‘Taschenb. d. deutsch. FL’ Ed. iii., p. 102 (1844) with 
‘decumbent stems, and short, thick panicles ’ (without reference to 
the number of flowers in the spikelet) which seems to be the same 
as your plant.” 
Poa nemoralis, L., var. rigidnla. Brecon Beacon, July, 1895. 
Cult., garden ; root from Brecon Beacon, 12th July, 1895. I owe the 
varietal name to Mr. Arthur Bennett. The cultivated plant 1 send 
for comparison, and to show what it becomes after about four years 
in garden soil. — Augustin Ley. “ If this were once the var. rigidnla 
in the wild state, it has now become genuine P. netnoralis by 
cultivation.”- — E. Hackel. 
Bromus Lloydianus. Grassy cliffs by the sea, Milford-on-Sea and 
Barton, S. Hants., June, 1895. — J. Cosmo Melvill. “A’, molliforinis, 
Lloyd = A. Lloydianus, Gren. and Godr., can only be identified on 
ripe specimens, the awn diverging in the fruiting state, not in flower. 
'I'he habit of your plant is indeed that of B. molliforinis L — E. Hackel. 
Bromus interruptus, G. C. Druce = A. mollis, var. interruptus, 
Hackel. Elsfield, Oxford, 30th May, 1895. — Mr. G. C. Druce has 
raised this plant to the rank of a species in the ‘Journal of Botany,’ 
1895, p. 344, and has promised a fuller account of it in a future 
number. I found large quantities of it, evidently sown with a form of 
B. commutatus, in a dry sandy field at Elsfield, near Oxford, in May, 
1895, where it flourished amazingly, in spite of intense drought. The 
interrupted panicle at once attached my attention. The plant had a 
very distinct appearance when growing, and close examination showed 
that the palea is divided almost to the base into two narrow lanceolate 
segments. This I pointed out to Mr. Druce, who found it to be the 
case with all the specimens which he examined, though they were 
derived from several distinct sources. His detailed account of it will 
be awaited with interest. — L. V. Lester. 
