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Evidently it should be raised to specific rank as P. sahrinfe (Baker 

 and Cardew) comb, nov." The differences between this plant and 

 P. Serraria L. are fully discussed in the 1911 Report ; and a 

 Latin description of the new variety (which, however, was written 

 ^abrince, as if a personal name) is given on p. 29. Having seen 

 this Plantain both in its original station and on rocks at the end of 

 the Brean Down peninsula (just opposite), where one woody root 

 produced six flowering branches and found it true under cultivation, 

 I can fully endorse Mr. Druce's opinion. It may be useful to call 

 attention to his having given it specific rank — a fact which I had 

 overlooked until he reminded me of it. The whole appearance of the 

 plant is extremely striking and distinct. It probably occurs on Lundy 

 Island, v.c. 4 N. Devon, and should be found on rocky cliffs in AVales, 

 &c. — Edwakd S. Marshall. 



YeROXTCA CrISTA-GALLT as A^r escape from CULTITATTOIf. 



Mr. S. T. Dunn states in his Alien Flora that this distinct Veronica is 

 " known as an escape more or less established in a few localities," but 

 o-ivos no further particulars. In one of my short walks aroiind the 

 b )undaries of Barrow Hill, Henfield, Sussex, about the middle of March, 

 my attention wi;s attracted by a long band of a very small-flowered 

 Veronica. As it was new to me I submitted specimens to ray friend 

 Mr. S. A. Skan, of the Kew Herbarium, who furnished me with its 

 name and some particulars of its history in horticulture. It is 

 recorded in Paxton's JBotanical Dictionary, nnder the name of Diplo- 

 l^lijlllum veronicceforme, as having been introdviced in 1813, and there 

 is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium labelled " Herb. Hook. ; Hort."; 

 but no record of its having been cultivated at Kew has come to light. 

 It is a native of the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and North-eastern 

 Persia, and belongs to a small section of the genus characterised by 

 having the calyx-segments connate in pairs. V. Griffithii Benth., a 

 native of Afghanistan, and V. cardiocarpa Walp., from the region of 

 the Alatau Mountains, Central Asia, are the only other species of the 

 section. V. Ci'ista-f/alli is a slender monocarpic plant, slightly 

 branched, with strongly ribbed leaves, similar to those of V. montana. 

 The flowers are solitary, axillary, -^-^ to g inch in diameter, blue ; the 

 calyx enlarges in fruit, becoming similar to that of RhinantJius 

 Crista-galli. At Henfield it is doubtless an escape from the garden 

 of William Borrer, a prominent British botanist of his day and a 

 friend of Joseph Woods, Sir William Hooker, Dawson Turner, and 

 others. The plant is now growing in great profusion alongside, within 

 and without, the open iron fence skirting the south side of the grounds 

 of Barrow Hill, by the pathway leading to the Lydds from the cedar 

 grove. For nearly forty yards in length it has almost complete 

 possession of the soil, covering it with a dense growth of soft green, 

 prominent at a distance. — W. BoTTiNa Hemsley. 



SwARTZiA isroNTAXA Lindb. IX Surrey. Miss G. Lister gathered 

 this moss in fruit on mortar of the brick wall of a bridge near 

 Witley, Surrey, in Api'il of this year. According to the Moss Census 

 Catalogue, Monmouth, Hereford, and Derby are the nearest counties 



