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Luzula niultijlora, Lej., fonua. Ref. No. 3161. Rocky ravine, 
Correifron, Motfatdale, v.-c. 72, Dumfries, 20th July 1907. — Ed- 
ward S. Marshall. Mr. Arthur Bennett thinks that this is near 
the var. nivalis^ Koch. It looked much more distinct when growing 
than in its dried state. — E. S. M. 
Z. niultiflora^ Lej. Correifron, Moffat, N.B., 20th July 1907. 
Often tall, panicle markedly umbellate, large broad stem-leaves ; 
looked different from the ordinary lowland form. — W. R. Linton. 
L. pallescens^ Besser. Woodwalton Een, 13th June 1907, coll. 
E. W. Hunnybun. “We have again examined the Luzula and 
have come to the conclusion that it should be referred to L. 
pallescens, Besser, though differing somewhat from Wahlenberg’s 
specimen, named pallescens, '\\\ the Natural History Museum.” 
James Groves in lilt, to E. W. Hunnybun. — S. H. Bickham. 
I have not seen a type specimen of Besser’s plant, but this distinct 
looking Liczula is evidently what is understood as the true thing on 
the Continent, judging from material collected in Northern and 
Middle Europe, preserved at Kew. Besser described his Z. palles- 
cens in ‘ Enum. pi. Volh. PodoL 15 (1820), other synonyms being 
Z. campeslris^ vzx. pallescens^ Wahlenb., ‘FI. Suec.’ I. 218 (1824), 
Z. inuitijiora^ Lej., var. ^ pallescens, Bluff et Fingerhuth, ‘ Comp, 
florae germ.,’ 1,444(1825), Z. sudcliai (WiWd.), Presl., var. 
cens, Aschers., ‘ FI. Prov. Brandenburg,’ 74 (1864). Buchenau, Afon. 
funcaceae (‘ Engl. Jahrb.’ XII. 163, 1890), points out that the 
extreme form of this plant has a very distinct appearance and might 
well deserve specific rank, were it not that intermediate states are 
found. According to Ascherson and Graebner, ‘ Syn. Mitt. FI.,’ II. 
520 (1904), however, shade forms of the common Luzula campestris 
have been mistaken for true pallescens, and these have been re- 
garded as transitional states between Z. sudetica and Z. campestris. 
Luzula pallescens, Besser, may be easily recognised by its pale 
colour and slender habit, the foliage being of a brighter green than 
in Z. multiflora and less hairy, with smaller shorter spikelets 
mounted on slender very unequal peduncles. The individual 
flowers are smaller than in Z. inultijiora, witn bristle-tipped outer 
perianth segments, which are, however, shorter than in Z. mullijlora, 
with shorter greener fruits. Among the specimens in ‘ Herb. Mus. 
Brit.’ I find one labelled “Z. multiflora, var., Woods of Aghadoe, 
Killarney, Aug. 30, 1883. Coll. H. N. Ridley,” and another, a 
rather scrappy specimen, “ Luzula multiflora, var. Pinus Wood, 
Balmuto, Fife. J. Boswell Syme, Aug. 1871.” Both of these match 
Mr. Hunnybun’s plant. Several Continental specimens of Luzula 
multiflora in the Kew Herbarium shew a tendency to vary in the 
direction of Z. pallescens. — A. Bruce Jackson. At the end of 
May and the beginning of June of last year I went to a rough piece 
