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lists. An increasing patch of it has for some years been under 
observation in St. Philip’s Ma.rsh, not hir from the tidal Avon. Its 
foliage and stems are well developed to a height approaching two 
feet, but the spikes are unusally small, owing possibly to poor 
nourishment afforded by the dry ashes into which the plant’s roots 
have now spread. It may be that the sedge is of alien introduction, 
but I am rather inclined to look on it as a survival from the ancient 
salt-marsh vegetation of the place. In any case it must shortly 
disappear, unfortunately, from the extension of works and factories 
over the ground. — J. W. White. I have never seen such extremely 
long, slender leaves in divisa, though it varies considerably in this 
respect. The otherwise excellent specimen received is only in 
dower. This plant should be collected again, later in the year, to 
make sure whether it may not be C. chcetophylla, Steudel, already 
found in Sussex. Nyman makes it a sub-species, Kiikenthal a variety 
of divisa. To judge by the points of divergence which Mr. C. E. 
Salmon mentions in ‘Jour. Bot.’ 1909, p. 95, its true rank would 
appear to be specific rather than varietal. My English specimens, 
collected by Mr. H. S. Thompson, have very slender foliage, but 
nothing like so long as in Mr. White’s plant. — E. S. M. The 
characters of var. chcetophylla, Daveau, as given by Kiikenthal in 
his excellent Monograph in Engler’s ‘ Pfianzenreich,’ p. 126, are 
culms short, slender, leaves convolute-filiform, spike short, dense, 
Perigy Ilium ellipsoid. In the type the culms 10 — 50 cm. strict, 
leaves 2 mm. broad, fiat. Spikelets oblong, lower often remote. Peri- 
gynium ovate plano-convex. None of these specimens quite agree 
with my Spanish chcetophylla which I gathered in several places. 
— G. C. Druce. 
C. divisa, Huds., var. chodophylla, Steud. Golf-links, Seaford, 
E. Sussex, dry margin of pond. Sept. 1908. — T. Hilton, Daveau 
is the authority for the varietal name, but I doubt its applicability 
to these plants. — G. C. Druce. 
Panicum Crus-Galli, L, Lower Morden, Surrey, 6th Sept. 
1908 — C. E. Britton. P. Crus-Galli, L., var. submuticum, Pori..? 
FI. H. — E. Hackel. 
P. miliaceum, L. Rawdykes, Leicester, Sept, 1907. An alien 
which appeared for several seasons; but was absent last year. — 
— W. Bell. Yes. — E. Hackel. 
Phleum pratense, Linn., var. majus, Sinclair. Road between 
Brinklow and Austrey, Warwickshire, 15th Aug. 1908, I know 
nothing of this plant except through Mr, Bagnall’s ‘Flora of 
Warwickshire.’ He adds this note (p. 291): “ This is a tall form 
often four feet high, with spikes six or more inches long, with an 
erect (not ascending) stem ; awns of the florets shorter in proportion 
