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Poa pratensis, L., var. angustifolia (L.), tes/e Hackel. Stone wall, 
Warwick, 5th June 1898.— A. B. Jackson. 
Festiica elatior x Loliiim perenne. Near Wensley, N. Derbyshire, 
25th July 1898. — VV. R. Linton. “Correctly named ” — E. Hackel. 
Bromus madrite?isis^ L., j3 rigidus (Roth.). Portelet Islet, Jersey, 
2nd June 1898. — R. P. Murray. Also under the name of B. rigiduSy 
Roth., from the same locality, and from near Gorey, Jersey, 21st May 
1896.— J. W. White. Brofnus madritensis^ /3 rigidus, Bab. The 
quotation of B. rigidus, Roth., is not quite correct, because that is a 
stouter form of madritensis with a larger panicle. As the three 
specimens show, B. madrite7isis is pretty variable also in Jersey, but 
that is the case in all countries where it grows. I do not think that 
these variations deserve distinct names. The true rigidus of Roth, is 
nothing but stout madritensis ! Gren. and Godr. misunderstood it 
totally by naming as a variety of maxhnusP — E. Hackel. 
B. interruptus, Druce, in ‘ Pharm. Journ. Suppl.,’ Oct. 5 (1895), 
and ‘ Linn. Soc. Journ.’ (1896), 426-30. In a rough cornfield among 
rye, etc., near Uxbridge, Middlesex, growing with B. secalinus, B. 
hordeaceus, and B. com77mtatus, July 1898. A new county record. — 
G. Claridge Uruce. 
13. unioloides, Kunth. Ballast, Bootle, S. Lancashire. — S. Gasking. 
Ballast near Birkenhead, Cheshire, September 1898. — J. A. Wheldon. 
Professor Hackel says of Mr. Gasking’s plant : “ Correctly named.” 
Athyrium alpestre, Milde., var. ? Cairn Gorm (alt. c. 3500 ft.) E. 
Inverness, 8th August 1898. — E. S. Marshall. Also sent by Mr. 
W. A. Shoolbred under the name of A. flexile, Syme. I should say 
these are merely a small state of A. alpest7'e, but detached fronds 
without their lowest parts do not give one a chance of judging of the 
habit. In an excellent paper on A. flexile in ‘Scot. Naturalist,’ 1881-2, 
p. 43, Dr. Buchanan White points out that the only constant characters 
that separate A. flexile from A. alpestre are the narrow base of the 
pinnules and the somewhat narrower frond, besides the appearance 
and habit of the plant. — J. G. 
Gym?iogra77ime leptophylla, Desv. St. Lawrence, Jersey, 19th 
February 1898. — L. V. Lester. 
Chara contraria, Kuetz. Birkdale, S. Lancashire, 8th June 1898. — 
J. A. Wheldon. “ I looked this up at the request of Mr. James 
Groves. In the Southport locality it exists in small quantity in one 
place only, where it will probably soon quite disappear. It is abundant 
at Birkdale in shallow pools, which are now in process of draining for 
building purposes, and also occurs more sparingly near Ainsdale. 
When growing here it is readily distinguished in the field from C. 
fcetida, wLich grows with it, by its lighter, more yellow tint, and its 
