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larger flowers of the type. It occurs in a fen near Huntingdon, 
where it was discovered by our Member E. W. Hunnybun, in 1907 ; 
it is almost certainly native, and I think specifically distinct from 
J. multiflorum. 
The following diagnosis of the Spartinas by Dr. Otto Staff, in 
his interesting paper, we owe to the kindness of the Gartieners’ 
Chronicle^ in which it was published on Jan. 18, 1808 ; — 
Spartina stricta. Forming small tufts ^ to feet high; 
rhizomes and stolons wiry, culms with a succession of up to 15 
tight ; firm, short sheaths, which, with the exception of the upper, 
soon throw off the blades ; spikes usually 2, sub-contiguous, rigid, 
overtopping the leaves, spikelets 5I — 7 lin. long, pubescent ; second 
glume 3-nerved, lateral nerves delicate, tips hyaline. 
S. Townsendii. Forming large clumps or beds 2 — 4 feet high ; 
rhizomes and stolons soft ; culms with a succession of up to 
10 or 12 somewhat soft sheaths, much increasing in length up- 
wards, the lowest throwing off the blades ; spikes usually 3 — 5, 
sub-erect, rigid, overtopping the leaves ; spikelets about 8^ lin. 
long, delicately pubescent ; second glume 3 — 6 nerved, with i or 2 
stouter side nerves, keeled, keel ending abruptly below the hyaline 
tip. 
S. alterniflora. Forming large clumps or beds 2 — 3 feet 
high ; rhizomes and stolons soft ; culms with a succession of up to 
8 or 9, soft and very smooth sheaths, not throwing off the blades, 
which gradually decay; spikes usually 5—7, sub-erect, slender, 
and often slightly flexuous, overtopped by the long drawn-out 
blades ; spikelets glabrous to the natural eye, 6— 7I lin. long ; 
second glume delicately 5—6 nerved, keeled to their very tip. 
In addition to Sagitiaria heterophylla^ Pursh., a large number of 
Aliens have been recorded during the year which will be noticed 
elsewhere, but we may signal out Tunica Saxifraga, Scop., which 
has been found in very considerable quantity near Tenby. 
Among the recent publications (up to 1908) interesting to 
our members may be mentioned the following : 
List of British Plants, containing the Spermophytes, Pteri- 
