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restricted distribution, yet abundant in some spots. A specimen 

 from Crabtree was labelled Bloxamii by the late Eev. A. Bloxam. 

 July 9, 1877. — T. E. A. Beiggs. Of course this plant from 

 Marsh Mill is not tyxDical. A specimen of the same from Crabtree 

 collected in July, 1865, is marked in my herb, as authentic 

 R. rhenanus, MlilL, on the authority of Genevier. I cannot find 

 any descrix^tion of B. rhenanus, and have no foreign specimen of it. 

 It differs in several respects from true ii Blo.vamii, of which 

 I have a good series before me from Lees and Bloxam, by its much 

 more hairy stem, — indeed, hairiness throughout, — but especially 

 by its beautiful pyramidal, open, nearly naked panicle, with long 

 corymbose few-flowered branches which are quite simple in 

 then* lower part. It should not go out as B. Blod-amii without 

 note or comment, as it would convey a wrong idea of that plant. — 

 C. C. Babington. 



" B. tubeyculatus, Bab." Kew, Surrey, July, 1877. — J. G. 

 Baker. Not my plant, nor much like it. It is very like B. Bal- 

 fourianus, especially resembling a plant so named by me in the 

 Herb. Borrer from Bridge Wood, near Tonbridge Wells ; indeed 

 almost the only difference is found in the more furrowed stem of 

 the Kew plant now issued. The lower part of the stem of typical 

 B. Balfouriamis is not furrowed, although its upper part often is so. 

 I have never seen it with so furrowed a stem as in this from Kew. 

 — -C. C. Babington. 



B. sijstyla, Bast. Hedge near Shhiey, S. Hants, August,. 1877. 

 — J. Groves. Similar to the Devon sysUjla, considered by Deseglise 

 to be rightly so named. — T. K. A. Beiggs. 



B. leucochroa, Desv. Near Kiver Teign, Trusham, 1877. — W. 

 Moyle Eogers. a well-marked rose that abounds in Devon and 

 Cornwall. — T. E. A. Beiggs. 



Saxifraga lujpnoides, L., var. Dry limestone rocks. Black 

 Head, Co. Clare, Ireland, May 13, 1876. A variety mentioned in 

 Cyb. Hib., having the leaves clustered in a singularly dense 

 manner, nearly glabrous, the leaves and sepals broader and blunter 

 than in hypnoides of the north of Ireland. The fls. small, but 

 the stamens larger and rounder. In some quantity on bare di-y 

 limestone rocks. — S. A. Stewart. 



Valericmella carinata, Lois. Helston, Cornwall, July, 1877. — 

 J. Cunnack. Stone-dyke, Penzance, June 4, 1877. — AV. B. Water- 

 fall. Several places near Plymouth. — T. E. A. Beiggs. Hedge- 

 bank, near Bovey Tracey, Devon, May 26, 1877. — W. Moyle 

 Eogees. Hedge-bank, Dundonald, Co. Down, Ireland, June 19, 

 1877. — S. A. Stewart. Beeston Tor, near Wetton, N. Stafford- 

 shire, June 14, 1877. Eiversdale, Derbyshire, June 12, 1877. I 

 am convinced that this is as native as 7. oUtoria, Mcench., in the 

 limestone dales of Derbyshire and N. Staffordshire. This year I 

 found it in two spots in Eavensdale, Derbyshire, growing on the 

 limestone crags in comiDany mth F. olitoria, amid such purely 

 native vegetation as Putentilla verna, &c. Similarly, and again 

 mixed with V. olitoria, in the limestone dales near Wetton, N. 

 Staffordshire ; and I used to find it in precisely similar situations 



