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PLANT NOTES, ETC., FOR 1926.
I hope you will tell him that he is mistaken (!) about its' polar origin'."
For further notes on the species, as introduced to Great Britain, see
Naturalist 1908, p. 10 and p. 373, and Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 1908, p 311.
A. BENNETT.
2639. SETARIA VIRIDIS Beauv .. var. WEINMANNI (R. & S.) Dr. =
PANICUM WEINMANNI Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii., 490, 1817 = S. PUR­
PURASCENS Opiz. Spikelets and bristles more or less purplish or violet.
Ware, Herts, Miss TRoWER and G. C. DRUCE; Grimsbury, Northants;
Abingdon, Berks, G. C. DRUCE.
2666. ALOPECURUS GENICULATUS L., var. TUBEROSUS A. & G. Salt
marsh by Colne, Wivenhoe, N. Essex, June 26,1926 [2343J, G. C. BRowN.
The earlier trivial var. BULBOSUS (Sonder Fl. Hamb. 32, 1851) was rejected
by AAeherson & Grapbner to avoid confusion. G. C. DRUCE.
27:l7 (2). CYNOSURUS ELEGANS Desf. Alien, Medit. Splott, Glamorgan,
1926, R. MELVII,LE and R. L. SMITH.
2737. C. ECHINATUS L., var. PURPURASCENS Ten. Burton-on-Trent,
Staffs, G. C. DRUCE· & Sir R. CURTIS.
2748 (2). ERAGROSTIS BARRELIERI Daveau. Alien, Medit. Avonmouth,
W. Gloster, C. & N. SAND WITH.
2748 (3). E. PIWSA Beauv. Alien, Tropics. Avonmouth, W.
Gloster, C. & N. SAND WITH ; Grays, Essex, R. MELvn,LE.
2830. AGROPYRON REPENS Beauv., var. CAESIUM (Presl) Beck. See
C. E. BRITTON in ,1071.rn. Rot. 328, 1926. Beck separates this from ordinary
7·epens in having the leaf-sheaths hairy not glabrous. It is a strong
glaucous forms which Ascherson and Graebner says remains constant in
culture. This also exists as a form with clear green leaves (var. viride
Marsson), which Mr Britton says occurs in Surrey as well as the var.
caesi71,m. In the Flora of Oxfordshire (long printed off) caesium is included
from Banbury, my No. 7116, and Binsey Lane, but a specimen
from l\filverton, Warwick (H. Bromwich in Rep. B.E.C. 1887), which
Hackel called A. repens, var. arvense Reichb., has a few scattered hairs
on the leaf sheaths, but it is not caesian. Other plants show a series of
hyaline dots, but the hairy sheathed plant is evidently rare.
2844 (4). TRITICUM (AEGILOPS) BICORNE Jaub. & Spach. Alien.
Bristol, Somerset, C. & N. SANDWITH.
2876. EUPTERIS AQUILINA (L.) Newm., var. MULTIFIDA (Wollaston).
Burnley, Lanes, C. R. RICHINGS, ex H. BRITTEN.
2878 (2). BLECHJ).'1JM ALPINUM = LOMARIA ALPINA. Alien, Brazil.
See Nicholson in Gard. Diet. iv., 293, t. 415. Growing freely in cracks
of flags and on old walls, Dunmore, Donegal, F. R. BROWNING.