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NOTES.-ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 
BOTANY . 
Lathyrus tuberosus at Dunmow. —On 3rd August, 
1913, I found at Dunmow a species of Lathyrus which I identified 
as L. tuberosus. Not having heard of this plant ever being 
found in this neighbourhood, I sent it to the East Anglian 
Institute of Agriculture at Chelmsford for verification. The 
Principal, Mr. A. Malin Smith, M.A., very kindly wrote me that 
the specimen I sent was certainly L. tuberosus, and that he had 
never heard of it being found so far away from Fyfield as 
Dunmow. I found it growing in some grassland on a light clay 
soil about one hundred feet distant from the railway line, and 
about half a mile from High Street, Dunmow, in a S.W. direction. 
There were only about four or five plants spread over a patch 
some three or four feet square. I carefully covered over the 
remaining flowers before leaving, in order to preserve the plant 
to this neighbourhood. My son also found this plant in the 
same situation a week previously, but 1 lost the specimen he 
gave me before I had had time to identify it. He thought it a 
dwarf kind of the Garden Everlasting Pea, which it somewhat 
resembles. On the eighth of August I also found growing in 
a wood near here two specimens of Epipactis latijolia. —Wm. 
J. Farrington, High Street, . Dunmow. 
Anomalous state of Spartina stricta near Brightling- 
sea. —Mr. B. F. Barnes, of Ilford, sent me in August, 1913. 
a specimen of the grass Spartina stricta (Both.) recently gathered 
at Brightlingsea. It presented peculiar features, so I sent 
it to the Curator of Kew Gardens, and the Keeper of the Her¬ 
barium has replied as follows : “ The specimen is an anomalous 
state of S. stricta. The anomaly is not confined to the dis¬ 
position of the spikelets, but extends to some degree to the 
latter in so far as I found the lowermost spikelet of the lateral 
branch imperfectly 2-flowered. The lower floret had three im¬ 
perfect stamens and a pistil with two stigmas, the upper lacked 
the palea and had only one stamen, and a rudimentary pistil 
with one bristle-like stigma, while the other was replaced by a 
delicate subulate membrane.” 
The specimen, which w r as unfortunately scrappy, has been 
placed in the Kew Herbarium. The rest of the gathering 
sent was normal. The point that was at once obvious w r as 
