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 476 SHORT NOTES. T. junceum L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 128 (1762). 1633. '' In the salt marisbes by Dartford in Kent." — Johnson, Ger. em. 24. Lepturus filiformis Trin. Fund. Agr. 123 (1820). 1632. " Gramen parvum marinum spica loliacea." — Johns. Kent. p. 11 (near Margate). See Ger. em. ch. 22, par. 8. Nardus stricta L. Sp. PI. 53 (1753). 1632. ''Gramen spartium capillaceo foHo minimum." — Johns. Enum. See Ger. em. ch. 22, par. 10. Hordeum sylvaticum Huds. ii. 57 (1778). 1666. " Gr. SecaUnum maximum. ... In the woods a mile west from Peters- field" (Hants).— Merrett, 57. H. secalimim Schreb. Spic. Fl. L-ips. 148 (1771), H. pratense Huds. (1778). 1633. ''Commonly. . . in our medowes."— Ger. em. ch. 22, par. 4. H. murinum L. Sp. PI. 85 (1753). 1548. " The wal Barley whiche groweth on mud walles." — Turn. Names, Dv. back. H. maritimum With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 127 (1787). 1688. quentissimum est." — Bay Hist. ii. 1258. Elymus arenarius L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1597. "About Norfolke and Suffolke in great plentie." — Ger. 39. (To be continued.) SHORT NOTES, Hypoch(eris glabra L. — In the short sandy turf about St. Martha's Hill, near Guildford, there grows a form of Uypochceris glabra L. which differs markedly in habit, size, and fruit, from any previously recorded in British Floras. There is, however, in the Herbarium at the British Museum a similar plant from between Thetford and Brandon, in Suffolk. The Surrey plant is small, quite glabrous, root fusiform, branched upwards, bearing several rosettes of small oblanceolate leaves, and a large number of ascending slender simple (or occasionally branched) leafless stems 2-3 in. long. Heads small, cyUndrical, 3-4 -flowered. Corolla and pappus slightly exceeding the involucre. Fruits all truncate, bearing a sessile pappus in two rows, destitute of woolly hairs. The vegetation of the neighbourhood abounds in depauperate forms, and this would appear at first sight to be one, were it not for the fact that the tendency of this species is to become more simple and lose its outer truncate achenes in very poor soil. Jordan even claims to have restored its aborted truncate marginal achenes to H. Balbisii Maur. by cultivation. As this can hardly, therefore, be passed over as a depauperate form, nor yet a mere local variation, occurring as it does in Surrey and Suffolk, and as it has not yet been described, so far as I can discover, in any Continental or British Flora, I venture to call it Hypochceris glabra L. var. nana. In a classification of the other varieties of the species it would
 * Gramen secalinum palustre et maritimum. In palustribus fre-