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but where I have no remembrance of meeting with restricted 

 U. nanus ; nor have I any specimens thence, save of U. GaUii. 

 The plant collected by Mr. Marquand in the New Forest district 

 is clearly correctly named eu-nanus, and I may say that I agree 

 completely with Mr. Lees in the names of all the specimens men- 

 tioned in his note, and so kindly sent to me by him, except that 

 I should call his Gainsborough plant U. G-allii rather than 

 C7. eu-nanus. The distribution of these two furzes through England 

 requires full working out ; generally speaking I have hitherto con- 

 sidered U. GaUii a western or " Atlantic" plant, and U. eu-nanus 

 eastern or *' Grermanic," but this will probably not hold good very 

 far. — H. Trimen. 



On Symphytum aspereimum. — In the report of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club for 1876 there is a reference, at p. 29,* to a 

 Sijmphjtum gathered by me near Youlgrave (misprinted 

 "Yurlgrave"), Derbyshire. I think it may be well to state that I 

 saw only one root or small patch of the plant, and that it appeared 

 to have evidently originated from a garden not far off. I had, how- 

 ever, x)reviously met with the same plant in considerable quantity 

 near Grange Mill, a hamlet two miles south of Winster, Derbyshire, 

 at the upper part of the picturesque line of road called the Via 

 Gellia. A streamlet here runs by the roadside, and on its wet grassy 

 banks this Symphytum, grows in plenty for more than twenty yards, 

 evidently brought down from the gardens at Grange Mill. I have 

 sent to the Bot. Exch. Club a small supply of this Grange Mill 

 plant which I obtained last summer, so that a portion at least of 

 the members will be able to see what is the form to which these 

 notes apply. As to the question whether it should be regarded as 

 a form of ^S'. asperrimum or as distinct therefrom, I think it may be 

 well here to quote the remarks of Mr. J. G. Baker on this plant 

 (in a letter of Feb. 14th, 1877) : — " I cannot quite make up my mind 

 about your Symphi/tum. The true *S'. asperrimum, has strong retrorse 

 white prickles on the stem and leaves, not mere setae ; your plant 

 has not these, but in everything else agrees with S. asperrimum. 



We have precisely your ^Dlant from Besser as S. asj^errimum, 



and Planchon has marked it ' S. Donii D.C. ?' I incline to think 

 the plant a var. of asperrimum.'' The Derbyshire plant does not 

 well agree with Curtis's, or rather Sims's, figiu'e of S. asperrimum 

 in ' Bot. Mag.' xxiv. 929, for the corolla is there represented as much 

 more oj)en at the mouth than in my plant. The description also 

 states that the stems are " not merely hispid, but covered with 

 small curved prickles." The Derbyshire plant shows no disposition 

 to vary even when reproduced from seed. I have found it not only 

 in the two stations already mentioned, but I find it also in cultiva- 

 tion in a cottage garden in this N. Staffordshire parish (Ashbourne), 

 each station being some miles from the others. It grows fully five 

 feet high, in this respect resembling true 8. asperrimum. The 

 corollas are i^inkish before and at the first opening, afterwards of a 



* See ' J. Bot.' 1878, p. 253. 



