320 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
and also specimens from a new locality in a marsh near Loch 
Scarclett ; all these localities being lowland, and so far as one can 
see with but little range of variation in the plants. The rhizomes 
are extensively creeping, and so much intermingled with those 
of other plants as to be with difficulty separated ; so that the 
description ‘ caespitose ’ given for strigosa by Groves in the 
‘Manual’ is not applicable to these plants. July 1907. I have 
not yet had time to make a microscopical examination of the 
glumes. — G. Claridge Druce. Calainap-ostis neglecta, Beauv. — 
E. Hackel. Identical, I believe, with the Loch Duran plant, 
which has been referred to D. strigosa, Kunth. The panicle- 
branches are hispid ; but I understand that the name has been 
called in question. — E. S. M. Dr. O. Stapf considers this to be 
type D. 7 ieglecta. I have a similar plant labelled “ Deyenxia strigosa. 
Loch Duran, Caithness, July 1886. — E. S. Marshall.” The true 
D. strigosa, judging from Scandinavian material preserved at Kew, 
seems to be a grass with larger spikelets, but otherwise much the 
same. — A. B. Jackson. Deyeuxia neglecta, Kunth., of ‘ Lon. Cat.,’ 
Ed. X.— H. J. R. 
Gastridiuju australe, Beauv. In an undoubtedly native situa- 
tion, in aboriginal turf among furze, in company with Gerafiium 
columbinum, Euphorbia exigua, &c., on a steep bank by the sea, 
near Nash Point, Glam., August 1907, N.C.R. — H. J. Riddelsdell. 
Gastridium lendigeruvi, Gaud., of ‘ Lon. Cat.,’ Ed. X. — H. J. R. 
Sieglingia decumbejis, Bernh., f. On a wet clayey rushy hill-side 
near Llangammarch, v.c. 42, 24th and 25th July 1907, at about 
800 ft. above sea level. This form, as it grew, was a very remark- 
able looking plant, with wide open panicle, upright growth, densely 
tufted habit, and the stem considerably taller than usual. But in 
drying the open panicle usually becomes nearly closed, and other 
small points, which at first seemed to separate the form — e.g. the 
panicle is often very near the topmost leaf-sheath, the flowers 
often exceed the glumes, the pales sometimes have more numerous 
veins, &c. — disappeared, or were found under careful examination 
not to be constant. And in spite of the habit and the open 
panicle, the plant can apparently only be put down as a very 
robust form. Prof. Hackel agrees to this. He says : — “ Only 
the open panicle would, if constant, give a varietal character, but 
I could not find it always in your specimen. I should have awaited 
that your form had chasmogamous flowers, as was the case in some 
French specimens with open panicle I described in the ‘ Oester. 
Bot. Zeitschr.,’ but your specimen is cleistogamous. The spikelets 
and flowers are somewhat greater, and so is also the habit of the 
plant, but this is not a distinct character.” — H. J. Riddelsdell. 
An unusually luxuriant plant ; but I cannot see that it differs from 
