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a small space both on the walls and on the ground, but there 

 in j)rofusion. — Andrew Brotherston. 



Viuht triculor, var. Sandy ground, St. Martin's, Scilly Islands, 

 July 3, 1877. — J. Ealfs. It is certainly, as Mr. Baker thought, 

 very like V. jtarvula, Tin., but seems to be too much branched. 

 My Sicilian si3ecimens of T^ parnila are nearly simple, as described 

 by Gussone ; ours are all much branched. But other specimens 

 from Sicily, named and distributed by Huet de Pavilion, are 

 exceedingly like ours and branched. — C. C. Babington. 



T". Curtisii, Forst. Lytham sandhills, Lancashire, June, 1877. 

 A hitherto (so far as I can find out) unrecorded locality, but, 

 as the various examples will show, represented here most abun- 

 dantly in well nigh every variety of form, and likewise gradation 

 of colour. The niost frequent are the wholly purple, or wholly 

 yellow — the latter much resembling T'. lutea, Huds., but smaller. 

 The species is far more abundant at Lytham than at.Southport or 

 New Brighton sandliills ; indeed, though the latter place is 

 mentioned in all the floras as a habitat of V. Curtisii, a diligent 

 though fruitless search in the. summers of 1868 and 1869 causes 

 me to believe it to be now extinct in this locality. — J. C. Melvill. 



Tilia gravdifolia, Ehrh. Very abundant in the woods, clothing 

 the gorge of the Teme at Downton Castle, Herefordshire. It has 

 all the appearance of being native here, growing mixed with oak 

 and other native timber. The valley of the Teme at Downton 

 bears great resemblance to that of the Wj^e, at Symond's Yat, 

 where this hme is also abundant. — Augustin Ley. 



Biibiis JiirtifuHus, Wirtg. ? Hedge, Derriford, Egg Buckland, 

 S. Devon, July 17, 1877. Apparently identical with a bramble 

 labelled Jiirtifoliu.s, Wirtg., in Mr. Baker's collection of Continental 

 liuhi. — T. E. A. Briggs. I have a specimen of JiirtifoUus (Wirtg. 

 Herb. Eub., ed. 1, No. 173), which is very much like this. But 

 Focke thinks that published specimen doubtful. He thinks that it 

 may possibly be a form of the li. pyramidalis, Kaltenb., but I 

 can hardly agree with him, with his own specimen of the latter 

 (Eub. Select., 65) before me. That has, as he describes it, a truly 

 pyramidal panicle with patent branches ; not like the Derriford 

 plant and the above No. 173. By " foha subtus subvelutina" 

 Focke ai^pears to mean what I should describe as " hairy only on 

 the veins." The Derriford plant seems to be very near to 

 I\. amplijicatus, Lees = B. stercacanthus, Miill. ; neither of which 

 are, I think, noticed by Focke. I was probably wrong in identi- 

 fying E. wnhraticiis, Miill., with B. ampUjicatiis, as Focke is 

 probably correct in joining that to B. pyramidalis, Kaltenb. My 

 specimens of B. umhratkus are from Wirtgen (H. E., ed. i. iv., 82), 

 and Boulay (No. 9), both apparently authenticated by Miiller. 

 I need hardly add that my B. pjjratnidaUs is a totally diflerent 

 X^lant, which Focke considers as near to his B. myrica, but can 

 hardly be correct in doing so. But I have not seen any specimen 

 of B. myric(E. — C. C. Babington. 



B. JUo.vamii, Lees. Eoadside between Marsh Mill and 

 Plympton St. Mary Church, S. Devon. A X3lant with quite a 



