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is the only one that hitherto has afforded inland stations for the 
species. Babington records the var. obtusa from Leicestershire, 
but these specimens are pronounced by Prof Hackel to be the 
type. The plant has taken good hold of a portion of a field at 
the side of a little used cart-road just outside Leicester, completely 
covering an area of twenty or more square yards. How originally 
it became introduced there is unknown. — A. R. Horwood. 
Fcstuca ciliata, Danth. Field by Ditchley Road, Brighton, 
East Sussex, May 1905. — T. Hilton. “Described in ‘FI. Hamp- 
shire,’ ed. ii, p. 648. See remarks by C. E. Salmon in ‘Journ. 
Bot.,’ 1906, p. 65 .” — Ed. 
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F. rubra ^ L., a. vulgaris^ Hack. Sandy shore, Skegness, 
Lines., 13th June 1905. Fide Prof Hackel, — A, R. Horwood. 
“ A clerical error seems to have been made here. The plant must 
be F. ovina, L., and perhaps the var. vulgaris^ Koch., of that 
aggregate.” — E. S, Marshall. 
F. rubra^ L., /3 arenaria^ Osb, Sandy shore, Skegness, Lines,, 
13th June 1905. This variety is exceedingly abundant at the 
locality, where it is associated with F. dumetorum, L., previously 
gathered by the contributor, and closely allied to that species. 
Prof Hackel writes of this : — “ The specimen shews indeed a 
near approach to Fcstuca dumetoriwi, but the structure of the leaf 
is quite that of F. rubraP — A. R. Horwood. 
F. elatior x Lolium perenne. Meadow, Sellack, Herefordshire, 
23rd June, 1905. In the same meadow occurs abundant Festuca 
pratcfisis, Huds., and depauperate forms of the same, running down 
to simple spikes, as well as abundant Lolium pere/me. The pre- 
sent plant is markedly different from all those. It occupies a 
damp corner of the meadow, in which it has apparently spread 
from a single clump, and is certainly increasing rapidly. Un- 
fortunately I was unable to watch if it produced perfect seeds, 
as I went from home, and on my return found the plant all mown 
down for hay. — Augustin Ley. “Correctly named.” — E. Hackel. 
Bromus unolioides, H.B.K. This grass, a native of parts of 
Central and South America, has in recent years begun to invade 
many areas in the temperate regions. I believe I was the first 
to gather it in the United States as a weed near the Battery, 
Charleston, So. Ca., in 1872. As an alien it has been met with 
in many parts of Great Britain, and has several times been sent 
to the Club. It has not hitherto been recorded for Salop, but 
both in 1904 and 1905 I noticed it in some abundance both on 
cultivated ground and in shrubberies at Meole Brace.— J. Cosmo 
