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M. alopecuroides x roiundifolia ? [ref. No. 3336]. Bossington, 
v.-c. 5, S. Somerset, 17th Aug. 1908. Nearer to M. rotundifolia in 
habit ; but inflorescence tending towards M. alopecuroides. The 
supposed parents grow together at this station. — E. S. Marshall. 
M. longifolia, Huds., var. Nicholsoniana (Strail). Boughrood, 
Radnor, Aug. 1908. This appears to be the common form of 
longifolia in the Brecon area. I saw it near Hay, Brecon, in Mr. 
Ley’s locality, near the Three Cocks Junction, and at Boughrood, 
Radnor, where these specimens were collected. — G. Claridge 
Druce. Strail’s description mentions — “leaves distinctly petiolate; 
bracts very long, setaceous.” I fail to find these characters in my 
examples of Mr. Druce’s ; and it is unlike other specimens ot 
Nicholsoniana from Herefordshire and Brecon in my herbarium, — 
C. E. S. Some specimens from Boughrood had petiolate and sessile 
leaves on the same plant, the lateral branches more frequently 
showing petiolation. That is the case too with Mr. Ley’s specimens, 
‘Report’ 1899, near Hereford. Mr. Nicholsoniana from 
Whitney, 1890, has the bracts not longer than the flowers, whereas 
in Mr. Ley’s from the “ Three Cocks ” locality they are decidedly 
longer. I think Mr. Salmon is right in limiting the name Nichol- 
soniana to the plant having all the leaves distinctly petiolate, and 
long setaceous, plumose bracts, as given by the Abbe Strail, 
‘Report’ 1887, P- "’dh which my specimens do not agree. 
It will be obvious that some of the plants distributed in previous 
years do not comply with these characters. It was from the fact 
of my specimens being identical with some gathered in the “ Three 
Cocks ” locality that led me to name them as above. — G. C. Druce. 
M. citratUy Ehrh. Roadside, near Priddy, Nine Barrows, on 
Mendip, N. Somerset, 850 ft., i6th Sept. 1908. (See ‘ Journ. Bot.’ 
igo6, p. 32.) — J. W. White. This matches well a plant I collected 
in Surrey in 1899, and which the Rev. W. R. Linton named 21 . rubra. 
The receipt of Mr. White’s plant caused me to examine my speci- 
men afresh with some care, for I had always thought that it was 
very unlike my other herbarium examples of M. rubra. The result 
of an examination seems to lead to the conclusion that Mr. White’s 
and my plants are both M. piperita., L. J/. rubra they cannot be 
as that has interrupted whorls of flowers, broad bracts, calyx more 
hairy, «&c. The lanceolate-subulate red calyx-teeth, the glandular 
calyx, the leaves being hairy on the veins beneath and glandular 
also, all point to piperita ; as regards the shape of the leaf this 
varies considerably in piperita, being either long and rather narrow, 
or ovate-lanceolate or even ovate-subcordate, as in the var. vulgaris 
(Sole). I think it will be found that the true M. citrata, Ehrh., is 
a much more glabrous plant in leaf, calyx, etc., and that it has the 
triangular-based calyx-teeth of AT. aquatica, L., under which some 
