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T. repeiis L., var. Townsendii Bab. This occurred, in 1903, in 

 Moccas Park, near Hereford, whence a root was brought to Under- 

 down, Ledburj', where it flourishes and retains its colour. July 20, 

 1916. — S. H. Eiekhani. Mr. N. E. Brown, in the Supplement to 

 English Botauj/ ed. 3, gives var. ritbesceus Seringe as an earlier 

 name. — E. S. Marshall. 



[Mr. Townsend's plant was first noticed by Babington in the 

 first volume of this Journal (p. 216 : 1863) and described by him in 

 vol. ii. p. 1, with plate by W. H. Fitch : in neither place is the variety 

 named. It may be noted that Bal)ington (^op. cit. p. 3) suggests the 

 identity of Townsend's plant with var. rubescens Seringe. — El). 



JOURX. BOT.] 



Lotus uliginosus Schkuhr, var. glahriusculus (Bab.). Fresh- 

 water Gate Marsh, I. of Wight, v.c. 10, Sept. 16, 1916. (Cp. 

 B.E.C. Report, 1914, p. 136.) Further study of this plant inclines 

 me to think it more than a form due to situation. It was in great 

 abundance in the marsh and constant in character. A mile away on 

 wet ground in Freshwater Marsh the hairy form (var. viUosus) was 

 growing, and. there I could not find the less hairy plant. Not men- 

 tioned m Fl. Hants. 1901. {See B.E.C. Report, 1911, p. 136).— 

 W. C. Barton. 



Saxijraga grcenlandica L., var. nov. Grijfithii (Guermonprez). 

 Root from Cwm Idwal, Carnarvonslure. Cult. Bangor, July 1916. — 

 J. E. Griffith. The two small specimens sent to me have no barren 

 shoots, but they are certainly the same as a very well-marked Saxi- 

 frage which I gathered in Cwm Idwal (it apparently hybridizes with 

 *S'. Iiypnoides L.), as well as on and near Snowdon in 1912. Mr. F. 

 N. Williams identifies this as the Welsh plant named *S'. leptophylJa 

 Pers. by D. Don (Trans. Linn. Soc. 1822 [xiii.] pp. 450-1) ; but he 

 doubts the correctness of the identification, and proposes to call it 

 >S'. arvonica. Persoon's description, in his Sg?iopsis, i. p. 490, is very 

 brief and vague ; and I have seen no authentic specimen. — E. S. M. 



_PepIis Porfula L., var. longidentata. Boiss. eit Reut. (1) Ref. 

 No. 220 A. Drying mud of pond and ditch in a wood (alt. 800 feet), 

 Llandrindod Wells, Radnorsh., v.c. 43, Aug. 15, 1916. (2) Ref. 

 No. 220 B. Dry mud in ditch on open hillside (alt. 1000 feet), 

 Llandrindod AVells, Radnorsh., v.c. 43, Aug. 15, 1916. It should be 

 noted that 220 B was growing in a situation quite as exposed as 219, 

 and on drier mud, so that the development of the calj'x can scarcely 

 be due to situation, and that there was no admixture of forms. — 

 W. C. Barton. According to Rouy and Camus, Fl. de France, viii. 

 p. 167, Boissier and Renter made this a species ; J. Gay is the varietal 

 authority. The calyx-characters are right, but the petals are said to 

 be " oranges," whereas these are pink, in Mr. Barton's gatherings. — 

 E. S. M. This P. longidentata of Gay was, in 1878, given by Nyman 

 in his Consp. Fl. Europ. as native of Spain and Portugal only ; in the 

 later edn. France was added. Nj'nian makes it a subspecies, but the 

 difference seems hardly enough for that. Gay's original specimens 

 are in the Kew Herbarium. I liave the same fonn from the Isle of 

 XJolonsay, v.c. 102, gathered by M. McNeil, who says it "covers a 

 sun-cb-ied pool near Strand." Another ai)proacliing it from Witlcy. 



