4 EPILOBIUM NOTES FOR 1889. 



allegation that it is not indigenous. In the same spot, near 

 Tilford, where I gathered it last year, I could only find the f. 

 macrocarpa this season ; and strongly suspect, as I had not 

 interfered with the roots, that the same individuals had produced 

 the two different capsules in two successive years, having been 

 duly fertilized in the second, but not in the first. 



E. parviflorum Schreb., f. optica. This proves to be an exceed- 

 ingly common state of the plant in Surrey, and doubtless is so 

 elsewhere ; varying in height from six inches upwards. A speci- 

 men gathered on weald clay, near Hambledon, was 53 inches high 

 by actual measurement, and stout in proportion. In one case it 

 occurred as a sport, with the leaves in threes : — 



f. trifoliate. This I have also seen from Perthshire. A shade - 

 grown state from Worplesdon is f. umbrosa, with flaccid, bright- 

 green leaves. Mr. Beeby collected another, in a meadow near 

 Felbridge, Surrey, with short, broadly ovate-acute leaves, which is 

 referred to f. brevifolia = K. cordatum Biv. 



E. montanum L., f. albiflora. Near Witley, Surrey ; Finlarig, 

 Perthshire (leg. P. B. White). Seemingly much scarcer in Britain 

 than a state which has the unfertilized flowers white, afterwards 

 changing to pale pink, as in lanceolatum and roseum. 



f. verticillata. Not unfrequent about Witley. I also have it 

 from Tilford, and from Wye, E. Kent ; and Dr. White found it at 

 Lynedoch, Perthshire. Koch and Grenier and Godron ranked it 

 as a variety ; but I doubt its constancy, and, at best, it is no more 

 than a " sport." 



E. lanceolatum Seb. & Maur. Mr. Bennett sends a seedling 

 form from near Croydon, which appears to be a new locality. 



f. simplex. Sunny bank near Bowler Green ; a small, un- 

 branched, probably seedling plant, 4-10 in. high. 



f. umbrosa. Lanes near Brook and Bowler Green. Leaves usually 

 flaccid, light-green, longer and broader than in the open-ground 

 state, which not unfrequently reaches a height of three feet. 



E. roseum Schreb. The Rev. E. F. Linton has gathered this 

 near Nayland, Suffolk (a new county record). Among the states 

 which I have collected this year, one from a cottage-garden near 

 Witley is placed near f. anyustifolia ; the leaves are lanceolate, 

 erect, rather shortly petioled. 



f. umbrosa. Elstead and Worplesdon, by wooded streamlets ; 

 also sent by Messrs. Bennett and Miller, from gardens at Croydon ; 

 and by Mr. Beeby, from Felbridge. A glabrescent plant, with 

 deep-green, thin, broad, flaccid leaves, the lower ones on long 

 stalks ; flowers small. 



E. adnatum Griseb., f. simplex. Near Tilford and Hascombe, 

 Surrey, and between Cranbrook and Benenden, E. Kent; usually 

 the seedling plant, but sometimes a starved state of poor soils that 

 has survived the winter. If cultivated, it quickly changes, like all 

 the " forms " I have experimented with. 



f. stenophylla. Witley, Tilford and Hascombe, Surrey ; Cowick, 

 Yorks. This appears to be the usual state in my neighbourhood. 



f. umbrosa. In a shady fir-plantation near Tilford. 



