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hairy, whitish. Anthers with two apical tubes as long as the 
pollen-cells, and two dorsal awns at the base of the tubes, orange- 
yellow, minutely puberulous except the tubes. Ovary hemi- 
spherical ; style filiform ; stigmasimple. Fruit globose, of the size 
of a small pea, dark violet. 
Postscript.—Since the above was read, Mr. Robert Garner, 
F.L.S., in a letter, has pointed out to me that he discovered this 
plant some years ago in Maer Woods, Staffordshire, and exhibited 
it at a meeting of the Linnean Societyin 1872 (Proc. Linn. Soc. 
1871-72, p. 31); and also published an account of it in ‘Science 
Gossip' for 1872, p. 248, figs. 174-175, under the title of 
“A Curious British Plant.” As no name was given to it by 
Mr. Garner, and as it does not appear to have been placed in 
competent hands for identification, I had no clue to Mr. Garner's 
previous discovery of the plant. I have seen the specimens ex- 
hibited by Mr. Garner to the Linnean Society, and they are 
undoubtedly the same as Prof. Bonney's plant; they are respec- 
tively dated Dec. 1870 (flowering specimens !) and Oct. 1871 
(fruiting specimens). This gives a second British locality for the 
plant. Mr. Garner writes as follows concerning it :—‘‘ The spot 
where I found it, Maer Woods, in this county, had often been 
trod by Mr. Darwin, to whom I sent the plant as a hybrid, and 
he suggested that the seeds would show infertility ; and on in- 
spection, whilst in the Cowberry (V. Vitis-idea) I found a dozen 
or more good seeds, and twice as many in the Bilberry (V. Myr- 
£illus), there were not more than two to five in the berries of the 
plant in question.” In the berries upon Prof. Bonney’s specimen 
there appear to be two good seeds.—N. E. Brown. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. 
Fig. l. The Plant. Fig. 2. Leaf. Fig. 3. Raceme of flowers. Fig. 4. 
Stamen, front and back views. Fig. 5. Ovary and style. Fig. 6. Transverse 
section of ovary. Fig. 7. Fruit. 
Figs. 1, 2, & 7, natural size; the rest magnified. 
