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ordinary state. The stigmas, anthers, and pollen appeared to be quite per- 

 fect, and to possess their usual characters ; but I believe that all the seeds 

 would have been abortive, at least all the ovaries that I dissected were 

 incomplete. We may probably ascribe the elongation of the style and 

 ovarium to their appropriating that portion of nutriment, which would 

 otherwise have been employed for developing the embryo. I am. Sir, yours, 

 &c. — J. S. Henslow. Cambridge^ Sept. 6. 1831. 



Fumdria Vailldntu, a British Plant. — I had gathered this plant on Chat- 

 ham Hill, Kent, about five years ago, and had placed it in my herbarium as 

 a variety of F. parviflora ,• when, accidentally looking over some of the 

 species of this genus with Professor Lindley, a specimen caught my atten- 

 tion which I immediately identified with the Chatham Hill plant. This 

 specimen was subscribed F. Vaillantw; and upon my return to Cambridge, 

 I forwarded my own specimen to Professor Lindley, that he might compare 

 it with his. He has decided it to be the same, and I therefore do not hesi- 

 tate to add this species to our British list. — J. S. Henslow. Cambridge, 

 Sept. 16. 1831. 



Mr. David Don, on inspecting the specimens marked F. parviflora in the 

 herbarium of Mr. T. F. Forster, has found all of them to be F. VaillantM, 

 except some derived from Kent ; and he hence conceives it probable that 

 F. Vaillantw is even a more frequent plant than F. parviflora. Mr. Don 

 still considers the description in Smith's Fng. Flora^ vol. iii. p. 236., to be 

 accurately applicable to F. parviflora, except in the habitats. — J. D, 



Cineraria integrifolia, and its Varieties. — Sir, In looking over Sir J. E. 

 Smith's description of Cineraria integrifolia (Fng. Flor., vol. iii. p. 445.), I 

 find that he was rather inclined to consider the var. /3, called by some 

 C. jjriarltima, but not that of Linnaeus, a distinct species, but was deterred 

 by the very variable nature of the Cinerariae nearly allied to this species; 

 He observes concerning it, " It is twice the size of the above (var. a), with 

 numerous broad teeth to some of its radical leaves, with four to six flowers 

 in the umbel, nearly twice the size of those on the Newmarket Heath 

 specimens ; " L e. the var. a. (Jig. 36.) My reason for calling the attention 

 of your readers to this is, that on the 8th of 

 last June, when searching on the Gogmagog 

 Hills, near this place, for the var. a, which 

 generally grows there in great plenty, I was 

 unable to obtain any specimens, but found the 

 var. /3 in the greatest plenty, growing in the 

 very same place in which the var. a is com- 

 monly found. Now, it appears from this that 

 the moisture ofthe weather duringlast spring had 

 the same effect here which the vicinity of the 

 sea has at Holyhead, where this large variety was 

 found byMr.Davies, as recorded by Smith, name- 

 ly, that of converting this species from the small 

 state in which it is usually found, into the large 

 and dissimilar plant called by Mr. Davies Cinera- 

 ria marltima integrifolia. We may, I think,there- 

 fore, from the var. /3, which was, I believe, not 

 before known in that locality, having last year 

 totally supplanted the var. a, which had always 

 previously been found in that place, and was not 

 to be seen last year, conclude that the two are 

 nothing more than varieties of the same plant, 

 caused by difference in the degree of moisture. 

 I have sent the accompanying specimens, that you may see the great differ- 

 ence in size and appearance of the two varieties ; of which var. a was 

 gathered on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket Heath, June 5. 1820, and var. 



