302 MR. €. E. SALMON ON A HYBRID STACHYS. 
If one sums up the various differences enumerated above, it will be seen 
that by far the larger proportion of the characters of the hybrid in my garden 
are those of germanica rather than alpina, the last-named showing n" in 
(1) the strong peculiar scent of the leaves, (2) the presence of glandular 
hairs, and (3) the eharacteristie seed. 
Fic. 1 
a. Stachys germanica, flower aud seed. 
b. S. digenea, ditto. 
c. S. alpina, ditto. 
All enlarged. 
It is, I think, rather a remote hope that the hybrid described may be 
found in a wild state in these islands, for the only station for Stachys alpina, 
which is in West Gloucestershire, lies some 30 miles away, in a west-south- 
westerly direction, from the nearest known locality for 5. germanica n 
Oxfordshire. 
I do not know, however, the limits as regards the carriage of pollen by 
insects and the distances proved to have been covered. 
I wish. to thank Mr. Britten, Mr. Skan, and Mr. J. W. White for help 
in the preparatiow of this note, and to say that I shall be happy to supply 
seeds of the hybrid as far as the stock will allow. 
