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supply of specimens from the neighbourhood of Plymouth. These, 

 like the olher Devonshire specimens t have seen, resemble the Sorbiis 

 Movf/eoti, Soyer and Gand., having the leaves less deej)ly lobed at the 

 base than at the middle ; but they differ from authentic Continental 

 specimens, in having the leaves firmer, more glossy above, and with 

 the lowest lobes more acute and more spreading. In the leaves, in- 

 deed, the Devonshire specimens show an approximation towards S. 

 latifoUa, Pers. 



Fyrns fennica,'Qa\), Under this name Mr. A. Craig Christie has 

 sent for distribution specimens from the Isle of Arran. These are 

 precisely identical with the genuine Scandinavian form of S. scandica. 

 Do both P. scandica and F.fennica grow wild in Arran, or are the 

 Arran specimens which have leaves with the lower pinnse separate 

 P. scandica, var. pinnatijida, of Fries ? In the second edition of the 

 Nov. Fl. Suec. p. 139, Fries mentions this variety, and refers to it the 

 F. pinnutijida of Smith, and says it is to be carefully distinguished 

 from Sorhns liybrida {F.fennica'). The plant referred to by me as F, 

 senn-pinnata,\loi\\, in the third edition of 'English Botany,' is the true 

 Sorhns hybrida, L. til., and the S. feunica, Fries, as proved by Norwegian 

 specimens collected by the late Professor Blytt, received by me since 

 the third volume of the book mentioned was written. After seeing these 

 specimens I have no doubt that the plant I described as F.fennica is 

 really F. scandica, var, pinnatifida. Fries says of it, in the ' Summa 

 Vegetabilium Scandinavise ' (p. 170), that it is everywhere confounded 

 Avith S.fennica, but certairdy truly distinct by the fruit; for the fruits 

 of -S'. fennica are acid, and in appearance very similar to those of S. 

 aucuparia. 



Hic7'aciiim sp. Mr. J. Ward sends crdtivated specimens of a Hiera- 

 ciiim from Orme's Head, which are pi'obably a very abnormal form of 

 II. j)aUidum. They have the petioles much longer and the leaves nar- 

 rower and more attenuated at each end than in any specimens of //. 

 pallidum which I have seen, but in other respects they resemble that 

 species, which is very variable in its foliage. 



Cenfaurea nigra, L. var. " In the Isle of Wight, specimens of C. 

 nigra, L., now before me, there appear to be four states or varieties 

 having more or less distinct characters. 1. There are plants having 

 broad leaves, heads without ray-florets, and phyllaries not only con- 

 cealed by their appendages, but with these appendages also concealed 

 by the dense filamentous fringe. This form has some of the upper 

 leaves, particularly those at the junction of the branches, somewhat 

 aurieled at the base, and almost entire, or Avith but few teeth. The 

 form seems to be a very rare one in the Isle of Wight ; I have met 

 with it in one locality only, a moist meadow near the salt-water river 

 Medina. 2. A plant very like No. 1, but having generally rayed 

 lieads, with less densely hairy phyllary-appcndages, and leaves less 

 broad, with no auricles at the base of the upper ones, and very faintly 



