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MS. HOGG ON rOITB TAEIETIES OF BRITISH PLANTS. 133 



On Four ¥arieties of British Plants. 

 By John Koi^, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 



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[E«ad Not. 19th, 1857.] 



I BEG to present to the Linnean Society four or five varieties of 

 British plants, which were collected by myself during the last 



summer. 



variety 



Com Poppy {Papaver rhceas^ var, Jlore dWo). I gathered a single 



plant i 



village of Norton 



in the county of Durham, on September 18th. The petals 



fresh 



dark-red spot at their base. 



delicate white colour, having a small 

 I only once before met with the like 

 variety, which was also near Norton, more than twenty years ago ; 

 and which is recorded in the late Mr. Winch's * Flora of Durham 



find, no notice is taken 



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and Northumberland.' As far as I can 



this variety, as a wild plant, in any othe 



The second is, the European Strawberry-tree, or Arbutus wnedOy 

 of which the varieties here presented are Irish specimens. After 

 a search among our English and Irish works on native plants, I 

 '^as surprised not to find any mention of these very distinct vd- 

 nations in the form and breadth of the leaves. The one, wliich I 

 term var. latifolia, is a truly noble tree, its leaves much resembling 



thos 



often 



rounded. It is also very robust in its habit, and attains a large 



It was growing in the fissures of the compact grey lime- 

 on the marffin of the Tore Lake, or as it is otherwise named, 



size. It was growing in the 

 stone on the margin of the Tc 



the Middle Lake, at Killarney. The second, which I call var. 

 ^ustifoUa, I gathered from a small tree deeply rooted in the 

 <^vices of the same limestone rock, on the shore of the lower lake, 

 on the same day, Aug, 21st last. This variety possibly agrees with 

 the var. 7, salieifoUa, 'willow-leaved,' of the London nurserymen, 

 as mentioned at p. 1118 of London's * Arboretum et Fruticetura 

 Britannicum,' vol. ii. edit. 2. I will not here enter on the dis- 



^ .*nousness of this beautiful tree, now so 

 abundant about Killarney ; but I will only observe against the 

 affirmative side, that none of the Arbutus wood has ever, so far as 



learn 



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the island, been ( 

 among the peat 



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