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for Great Britain generally. Mr. John Garton, who has used 
Avena fatua extensively in his hybridizing work with oats, tells me 
that more than two varieties of this species occur in England. — E. 
Drabble. This is A./afua, pilosa (‘ B. E. C. Rep.,’ 1872, p. 
246) not pilosissi//ta, Gray. Wats. (‘Journ. Bot.’). — E. Hackee 
The above statement requires a slight correction. 'The plants 
criticised were sent by Mr. H. C. Watson to the B. E, Club in 1871, 
and in the Report for that year, p. 20, the Editor, Boswell Syme, 
wrote they “ include a series connecting pilosissima with var. inter- 
media. They may be placed under three heads, A. pilosissima, Gray, 
lower pale ultimately dark-brown, densely clothed with fulvous 
hairs from the base to the point where the awn is inserted. Var. 
B.pilosa, lower pale ultimately pale yellowish-olive rather thinly 
clothed with yellowish-white hairs from the base nearly to the 
point where the awn is inserted. This form I had not seen when I 
wrote the ‘ Grass ’ volume of ‘ English Botany,’ Var. C. intermedia, 
lower pale ultimately pale yellowish-olive, glabrous, except at the 
base or in the lowest floret, also with a few widely-scattered hairs 
about the insertion of the awn.” Therefore we should read A. 
fatua, L-, Ydoc.pilosa, Syme, in ‘Rep, Exch. Club,’ 1871, p. 20, if 
It be kept as a distinct variety. In my ‘^List ’ I have made it the 
type, with var. glabrata, Peterm. = intermedia, and var. pilosissima. 
Gray. I think the glabrous form is much the rarer in Britain. — 
G. C, Druce. 
Koeleria albescens, DC. [ref. No. 3 1021]. Braye Bay, Alderney, 
July, 1906. Named by Dr. Domin. — G. C. Druce. 
Koeleria albescens, DC. [ref. No. 31028]. St. Ouen’s Bay, 
Jersey, June, 1906. Named by Dr. Domin. — G. C. Druce. 
Koeleria albescens, DC. [ref. No. 31020]. Cobo, Guernsey, 
July, 1906. — G. C. Druce. 
Koeleria gracilis, Pers., v.-c. 64, July 27, 1909. Growing in 
great abundance in the upland pastures above Grassington. So 
named by Dr, Domin through the kindness of Mr. G. C. Druce 
from examples submitted in 1907. Not hitherto recorded for above 
vice-county as far as I can learn. — John Cryer. Yes; but the 
sub-species britannica, Domin, with narrower leaves than usual. 
Flowers and rachis very hairy. — E. S. Marshall. This specimen 
is not gracilis, but the sub-species K. britannica, Domin. IMany 
intermediates occur. — G. C. Druce. britannica, Domin. — E. 
Hackee. 
Poa palustris, L., var. effusa, .\sch. and Graebn. ‘ Syn. Mit- 
teleuop. FI.,’ II. 1.418 — teste Hackel. In old brickpits, by the Severn, 
