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sometimes — if, as we suppose, " Ponning, Berks" (1883, p. 98) is 

 intended for "Sonning" — the sense. Surely "ordinary seaside 

 Geraniiihi liuhertiamun " is not the same as G. purpureum Forst. 

 (p. 85) ? And in other ways the Keports bear evidence of hasty 

 revision: e.;/., the note on Scirjmti uniijlnmh (1884, 116) is not 

 intelhgible. 



We have never been able to fathom the exact meaning of the 

 " non-natural " sense in vs^hich the w^ord " new " is employed either 

 by the Exchange or Eecord Club. In the 1883 Keport, the Hawk- 

 hurst locality for Dentaria is called a " new station," with a reference 

 to this Journal for 1882. If published in 1882, we do not see how 

 the station can be styled "new" in 1885, especially as the record 

 in Journ. Bot. (p. 185) mentions an earlier gathering in 1872. 

 More puzzling still is the placing of Pohjuola ruliico-is from Bucks as 

 a " new County Eecord " in the 1884 Eeport : this plant is duly 

 given for Bucks in ' Top. Bot.,' and if we suppose a misprint and 

 that P. calcarea was intended, that species is recorded for the county 

 in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 54. The "New County Eecords " in the 

 1883 Eeport consist almost entirely of Mr. Beeby's S. Lincoln and 

 Surrey plants and the Hunts plants of the Eev. W. E. Linton — all 

 of which have been duly recorded in our pages. 



The following are the more interesting portions of the Eeports 

 — the Eubi, Koses, and Hieracia excepted : — 



From Eeport for 1883. 



" Gentiana ijermcmica Willd. Chalky banks, Crowell Hill, Oxon, 

 Sept., 1883. Crowell Hill is one of the Chiltern range, and within 

 two miles of the Bucks border. The plant occurred abundantly on 

 very bare chalky slopes, but, although extremely variable in size 

 and number of flowers, yet the size of flowers seemed fairly 

 constant. I did not notice any great difference in size of corolla 

 lobes, nor did the length of germen seem worth consideration. 

 The leaves are broader than those of AmareUa, and the colour 

 considerably lighter, more blue than purple, and often lilac. G. 

 AmareUa grew with it plentifully, but it required persistent search 

 to find one in flower, whereas G. germanica was in profuse blossom, 

 scarcely over its prime. There must be ten days diflerence in the 

 time of flowermg of the two plants. A few plants were found with 

 only four lobes to the corolla. While in the greatest abundance on 

 slopes of almost bare chalk, still others were scattered in the grass, 

 and some few were found on the tertiary above the chalk. This 

 hill yields, in its only Oxford locality, Cejihalanthera nmfolia. 

 Gentiana yennanica had not previously been recorded for Oxford. — 

 G. C. Druce" (p. 92). 



" Scutellaria galericulata X minor. Virginia Water, Surrey, July 

 and August, 1883. — Geo. Nicholson. I think there can be little 

 doubt of this being a hybrid. It grows in considerable quantity at 

 the station named, occurring in both Berkshire and Surrey. Dr. 

 Focke, who has made a special study of plant hybrids, says ' In- 

 termediate between S. (jalericulata and .6'. ndnur ; probably a 

 hybrid.' The only hybrid Scutellaria mentioned in Dr. Focke's 



