32 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
— W. R. Linton. F. rubra, L., vulgaris, sub. var. juncea . — 
E. Hackel. 
Festuca. South bank of the Wyre, Fleetwood, W. Lancs. 
(6o), July 1902. — J. A. Wheldon. F. rubra, L., vulgaris . — 
E. Hackel. 
Festuca rubra, Linn., var. juncea, Hackel. New Romney, 
Kent. July 1903, and from the sandy coast near Thurso, Caithness, 
August 1902. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Bromis — Ref. no. 2720. This grass grew on a steep, un- 
cultivated down near Warminster, v.c. 8 , S. Wilts, facing nearly 
due south, on e.xposed chalk debris but I doubt its being native. 
B. secalinus and B. racemosus have both been suggested ; but I 
do not think either fits the plant. It has remarkably small and 
elegant spikelets. — E. S. Marshall, 'riiis is Bromus b r achy s tacky s, 
Hornung, in Flora xvi. (1833), 4 ^ 7 ’ ^ species from the Orient 
(I have specimens from Syria), introduced long ago in Northern 
Germany. The introduction in England seems more recent, 
I find it nowhere mentioned. — E. Hackel. It is included in 
Dunn’s ‘Alien Flora of Britain,’ p. 39 (1903). Hornung, who 
was a German apothecary, gives a long description, and a good 
figure. — G. C. D. 
Bromus iuterruptus, Druce {B. pseudo-velutinus, Barnard 
ex Watson in Phyt., 1850. p. 807, without diagnosis to separate 
it from B. mollis). Fields above West Wycombe, Bucks, June 
1903. — G. Claridge Druce. I do not believe that the mention 
of Bromus pseudo-velutinus in PhytoL, 1850, is to be considered 
a valid publication of that name. — E. Hackel. 
Brachypodium pinnatum, Beauv. Railway bank, Abernant, 
Aberdare, Glamorgan, v.c. 41. Not recorded for this county in 
‘Top. Bot.’ ed. 2, and doubtless. in this situation not native. But it 
may have been brought here by locomotives from some locality 
near at hand. Limestone occurs within a few miles distance, both 
in Glamorgan and Brecon counties, and the species is recorded for 
Som. N., Glos. W., Monm. and Hereford. — H. J. Riddelsdell. 
Yes. — E. Hackel. 
Brachypodiu 7 )i pinnatum, Beauv. forma. Shady copse, Brook- 
lands, near Timperley, Cheshire, v.c. 58. Coll. G. A. Holt, 
July 1903. It has some affinities with B. sylvaticum, but the 
spikelets are smoother and more spreading, and the flowers have 
shorter awns. — Comm. C. Bah.ey. Brachypodimn pinnatum, 
Beauv., var gracilc, Aschers and Grbn. Syn. ii. 633 (Excl. Syn.). 
B. Gracilis, Leyss. FI. Hal. (1761), non Weigel (1772). The 
