EPTPACTIS VIRIDIFLORA 21 



Mr. T. A. Stephenson, who kindly examined one of the larger 

 examples, wrote : — " Clearly a big form of viridiflora, much stouter 

 and more latifolia-like in its general look than any we have had 

 before. The pollen is very overhanging and friable, falling on to the 

 stigma of itself, and the rostellum is visible as a rudiment in the bud 

 only, having vanished in the oj)en flower." 



A possible arrangement of the British forms is suggested below : — 



E. viridiflora Reichb. [not British unless it includes] 



forma vectensis T. & T. A. Stephenson in Journ. Bot. 1918, 1. 



Isle of Wight (v.c. 10). 

 var. dunensis T. & T. A. Stephenson [as forma]. Op. clt. 2. 

 Anglesey (v.c. 52) ; S. Lancashire (v.c. 59) ; W. Lan- 

 cashire (v.c. 60). 

 var. leptochila Godfery in Journ. Bot. 1919, 38. Surrey 

 (v.c. 17) ; E. Gloucester (v.c. 33) ; W. Gloucester 

 (v.c. 34) ; Monmouth (v.c. 35); Shropshire (v.c. 40). 



• References should be made to the following valuable articles in 

 this Journal :— Messrs. Wheldon & Travis (1913, 343), Messrs. T. & 

 T. A. Stephenson (1918, 1; 1920, 209), and Col. M. J. Godfery 

 (1919, 37 &80; 1920, 33). 



SOME BRISTOL PLANTS. 

 By Noel Y. Sandwitii. 



On September 22nd last my mother and I were botanizing with 

 Rev. E. Ellman on Combe Down, near Bath, N. Somerset, when, on 

 passing a field of potatoes, we were attracted by a quantity of a fine 

 Fttmaria which we had never seen before. The plants were large, 

 with many long diffuse branches aixb numerous rather lax and few- 

 flowered racemes of large and very beautiful flowers. The sepals were 

 as broad as the corolla tube, the fruit fairly small, with a very incon- 

 spicuous neck, the fruiting-pedicels not recurved in any specimens we 

 examined. The colour of the long corolla was a deep lustrous pink, 

 that of the tips being blackish-purple. On submitting a specimen to 

 Mr. C. Bucknall, he could bring it down to nothing but the very rare 

 F. paradoxa, hitherto only known on the mainland of Britain in 

 Cornwall, and first described by Mr. Pugsley in his monograph. 

 A few days later we sent a small fresh example to Mr. Pugsley, and 

 he replied that the plant certainly came under his F. paradoxa, which 

 he now refers to the Continental F. Mart in ii of Clavaud. It is, of 

 course, unquestionably a colonist in the Bath locality, but the 

 extension of its range and its occurrence in Somerset is of some 

 interest, apart from the facts that all the Fumitories, even the 

 common one, are scarce or unknown about Bristol. 



"We were also fortunate enough to make two other rather im- 

 portant discoveries for the Bristol district last summer. Galeopsis 

 speciosa is very rare in this part of the country, and only a single 

 specimen had been found, years ago, not far from Wells. Last 



