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stated to be " never confirmed," but of which specimens exist in several 

 of the older herbaria. Sileue italica is probably native at Dartford ; 

 and other species, such as Trifolium stellatum, MeUlotus parviflora, 

 Nardonmia frag runs, and JmarantJius retrojlexus, are now, in diflerent 

 ways, so well naturalized in England, that they are better placed in the 

 body of the text, though distinguished by different type from the bulk 

 of the Flora. A third class might be well omitted altogether, being un- 

 doubted errors, and the mystery once surrounding thera entirely dissi- 

 pated, e.g. Bnffouia and Typlia minor. 



The following extracts contain matter of interest to British bo- 

 tanists : — 



Barbarea prcecox. "I suspect it is a cultivated form of B. vulgaris" (p. 

 23). 



Draha rupestris. " The Ingleborough plant, gathered by Sir W. Hooker 

 and referred to by Syme (Eug. Bot. i. 103), is a small state of D. incana " 

 <p. 32.) 



Lythrum Salicaria. " Of those growing by the Thames at Kew, the long- 

 styled is glabrous, slender, with small narrow leaves and bright flowers ; that 

 with very short styles is a large, coarser, very pubescent plant, with dull purple 

 flowers " (p. 147). 



Seclera Selix. " The so-called Irish Ivy, with broad, rather fleshy leaves 

 and 8-rayed stellate hairs, is a doubtful native of Ii'eland. Var. Hodgensii, 

 another doubtfully native Irish form, has deeply 5-7-lobed leaves an d 12-15- 

 rayed scaly hairs" (p. 172). 



Carduus heterophyllus. " C. Carolorum, Jenner, is a hybrid with C. palus- 

 tris" (p. 193). 



Cuscuia TrifoUi, Bab. " Does not seem entitled to subspecific rank. Mr. 

 B. T. Bennett has sent me, from Hazlemere, specimens of the two forms grown 

 upon Heath, one with pink flowers and reddish anthers, and the other {Tri- 

 foUi) with white flowers and yellow anthers, the scales in both three-fourths 

 the length of the corolla- tube " (p. 246). 



Orobanclie major, L. " O. Rapum, Thuill. I take this to be the 0. major 

 of Linnaeus, who states that it is parasitic, especially on Leguminosce, and quotes 

 for it the Rapum genista of Lobel. There are no specimens in Linn. Herb." 

 (p. 275). 



Pinguicula grandiflora. " Apparently a subspecies ; the Irish is an extreme 

 form ; alpine and Pyrenean intermediates are numerous " (p. 297). 



Salicornia radicans, Sm. " Erroneously referred to Arthrocnenium fruti- 

 cosum by Moquin-Taudon in DC. Prod. . . . S. megastachga, Woods, with 

 tubercled hairless seeds ... is possibly an Arthrocnenium" (p. 321). 



" Salix Orahami, Borr. ms. (Baker in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1867, p. 157, t. 66), 

 is a plant only known from female specimens cull ivated in the Edinburgh Bot. 

 Garden, said to have been brought by Professor Graham from Frouvyn in Suther- 



