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as ATTN TCCLAT xe) cD) > _~ ® no = a 2S to?) = Ss ef ° [o) Catabrosa aquatica, Beauv. b. Jittoralis, Parn. Machrie Bay, Arran, on moist shore sand, 21st July, 1894.—A. SoMERVILLE. om ‘““We get a similar form in Shetland, on moist sands by the sea. 4 I have always regarded it as a state due to environment, and not a variety."—W. H. Beeby. ‘To this Professor Hackel replies : “ This . is only a state, not a variety, of this very polymorphous plant. I = : Li have not at hand Parnell’s description, but var. minor, Bab. = var. WS an subtilis, Hook. refers to the uniflorous state, while most of the spikelets in your specimen are biflorous. There is also a var. Uittoralis, (“4 Kittel, ‘Taschenb. d. deutsch. Fl.’ Ed. iii, p. 102 (1844) with ‘decumbent stems, and short, thick panicles’ (without reference to y the number of flowers in the spikelet) which seems to be the same ) as your plant.” , | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN i E£00857618 ‘ : Lon oe Order, (No. Gx.) mvs VOPTALTILAD. LC, PEL, NS 9 9S, Var.