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SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIRE KUBI. 358
what approaching A. setacea, but obviously distinct from it. It is
possible that Eries is not acquainted with trae A. setacea. The A.
montana of Dickson's Hortus Sice. Brit., from " the mountains of Scot-
land," is, however, certainly A. setacea.
It appears then, that Hudson's name remains good, and must stand
as that of the species. The synonymy is as follows :
Aira setacea, Huds. Fl. Aug. ed. i. (1760), p. 30.
A. montana, Huds. Fl. Aug. ed. ii. (1778), p. 35 ; Dicks. Hort. Sice.
Brit. fasc. 18 (1802), p. 4 (non L.).
A. flexuosa, var. /8, Sm. Fl. Brit. (1800), i. p. 85, and Eng. Fl.
(1824), i. p. 104 (excl. reference to Leers, whose figure is clearly A.
flexuosa') .
A. scabro-setacea, Knapp, Gram. Britt. (1804), t. 32.
A. uliffhiosa, Weihe in Bonninghausen, Prod. Fl. Monast. (1824),
p. 25.
Desc/iainpsia Thuillieri, Godr. and Gren., Flore de France (1855-56),
iii. p. 508 (includes also Aira discolor, Thuillier, which Boreau (Fl. du
Centre, 700) considers distinct from uligiuosa).
The plant has occurred in this country in the following localities :
Sti-atton Heath, Norfolk, Mr. Stillingfleet (Hudson and Herb. Smith 1)
Cawston decoy, Norfolk, Mr. Briant (Herb. Mus. Brit !) ; Fleet Pond,
North Hants (H. C. Watson; Angusshire, Mr. J. Mackay (Herb.
Smith !) ; Forfar Heath, G. Don (Knapp) ; near Forfar, G. Don (Herb.
Kew. et Winch, flde Baker) ; Loch of Drum, Aberdeenshire (Herb.
Mus. Brit. !) ; Cregduff Lough, Roundstone, Connemara, A. G. More
(Herb. Mus. Brit. !).
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SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIRE RUBI.
By the Hon. J. B. Leicester Warren, M.A., F.L.S.
This attempt to put on record the various Rubi-ioxm?, which I have
up to the present time personally observed in Cheshire is merely
similar to what Mr. Briggs has done for the Brambles of Devon.
I am convinced that, when the distribution of our native subspe-
cies of Riibi has been properly investigated, much subsidiaiy light
will be thereby thrown upon the study and discrimination of these
difficult plants. Trying some years ago to make a list of Cheshire
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