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instance of the typical S. gallica (L) occurring within the 
limits usually assigned to the British Islands, if we except 
the recorded discovery of Dr. Bromfield in the Isle of Wight, 
many years ago, and never verified. He exhibited speci- 
mens of the five sub-species collected by himself at Gallows 
Hill, St. Helier’s, Jersey, in June, 1879, and showed how 
that they were all certainly forms of one Protean plant, to 
which the term S. Gallica (L.) ought to be applied. 
The forms were as follow : — 
(I.) S. Gallica (L.) Stem erect ; branches not spreading, but 
ascending ; racemes somewhat dense ; Lamina of petals 
obovate ; roundish ; large j entirely white ; hairs of 
calyx appressed ; fruit erect or patent. 
(II.) S. Gallica-rosea, as the above, but petals rose-coloured. 
(S. Silvestris, Schott.) 
(HI.) S. Quinque-vulnera (L.) Petals white, with blood-red 
disk. The common form in Jersey. 
(IV.) S. Anglica Quinque-vulnera. Petals coloured as in No. 
III., but of the form and size of No. V. ; plant erect, 
ascending as in Nos. I. — III. 
(V.) S. Anglica (L.) Stem somewhat flexuous ; branches 
spreading ; racemes not so dense as in S. Gallica ; 
Lamina of the petals elliptical, somewhat jagged ; very 
small ; calyx with long hairs ; fruit reflexed. 
Mr. J. C. Melvill also exhibited specimens of Briza maxima 
(L.), a South European and Mediterranean grass, commonly 
called Large Quaking Grass, which was very rapidly spread- 
ing all over J ersey. He pointed out that it was both in 
Europe, the Canary Isles, and America, associated with two 
other grasses that have long been known as natives of Jer- 
sey, Bromus maximus, and Cynosurus echinatus (L.). The 
late Dr. M. M. Bull, of St. Helier’s, informed him that he had 
first noticed it about the year 1872 in S. Saviour’s parish, 
but that soon he expected it would overrun the island. It 
had not yet been noticed in the other Channel Islands. 
