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THE FLORA OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 
Is the identity of the Linnasan Salix incubacea with 
Ehrhart’s ambigua satisfactorily made out ? 
No notice is taken of Mr. Beeby’s Sparganium, and Hudson 
is quoted as the author of the species. The writer has seen S. 
ramosum, Curtis, in the county. 
Brown wrote Eleocharis, not Heleocharis. 
Scirpus ccinnatus, Sm. This, if authentic, is a peculiar 
extension of the range of the plant. 
Alopecurus agrestis , Linn., was originally named A. 
myosuroides, by Hudson in the 1st edit, of “Flora Anglica.” 
Trisetum flavescens, Beauv.,is rather T. pratense , Pers. 
Under Glycerin distans there is no notice of the var. obtusa 
mentioned in Babington’s “ Manual” as found in Leicester¬ 
shire, although more than two pages are occupied with the 
description of the forms of Gapsella Bursa-pastoris. The 
records in the Record Club reports also have not all been 
worked into the text. 
It is stated that the var. loliacea, Curt., of F. pratensis, 
Huds., is now considered to be a hybrid. This is the form 
which has the honour to be included in two places in the 
edition of the Condon Catalogue, i.e., under Festuca pratensis , 
where it is described as of Huds., and also under Lolium as a 
hybrid of that species with Festuca, i.e., L. festucaceum, Link. 
The Leicester Flora asserts that Hudson’s Festuca loliacea is 
a shore plant with shorter spikes, which is certainly not the 
case, for in the first edition of Hudson it is described as 
occurring in fields near London, and is the hybrid already 
alluded to. Hudson’s Poa loliacea is the shore plant,and has 
been confused in the London Catalogue with the Festuca. The 
proper name for the maritime grass, as a glance at the 
“Enumeration” of Kunthe will show, is Festuca rottboelloides. 
Since Hudson’s time it has been shifted about from Poa to 
Triticum, to Glyceria, to Sclerochloa, and now to Festuca. 
The old genus Triticum should be spelled Agropyron, not 
Agropyrum. 
After the Flowering plants and Ferns come the Cellular 
Acrogens, the Mosses numbering 179 species. Oxford has 
193 species on record. 
A large number of Fungi, Lichens, and Algae are 
enumerated. 
About thirty Phanerogams and Ferns are stated to have 
become extinct. 
In the summary the Flora of Leicestershire is compared 
with the Flora of Warwick, and with that of the British Isles. 
It shows that of Flowering plants, and Ferns and their Allies, 
