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near Buxton in 1868-70. In all these cases the two allied species 

 seemed to be inseparable companions. The occurrence of the 

 common one was a sure sign that the rarer was somewhere near. 

 — AuGUSTiN Ley. I quite endorse the Kev. A. Ley's remarks as to 

 this being as much a native as V. olitoria. In the neighbourhood of 

 Plymouth it is not restricted to a limestone soil. — T. E. A. Briggs. 



Cardmis temiiftorus, Curt., form of; C. j^ljcnocephahis, Jacq. 

 (verus). On limestone rocks above the coast, Hoe, Plymouth, 

 June, 17, 1877. On receiving a specimen from me of this peculiar 

 form of 0. tomijionis, Mr. H. C. Watson remarked, in a letter : — 

 " By the tomentose pericline this should go to C. alhidus, Bieb., fide 

 DC. Prodr., which so distinguishes C. alhidus from C. jjycnocephalus. 

 Both are there placed as vars. under C. tenuifiorus. But, setting aside 

 the tomentose involucre, your specimen is iiq^yqx jnjcnocephalusy 



Senecio judiistris, DC. Fen, with Cladium Marisciis, PJii/ncho- 

 spora alha, Pimum cuius Liuf/ua, yephrodium Tkeh/pteris, &c., East 

 Norfolk, July, 1877. About twenty plants were seen, some having 

 only radical leaves, others m flower and fruit. — A. Bennett. 



Hieraciiim Dewan, Boswell in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1878. 

 (See B. E. C. Rep., 1876, pp. 26, 27). I suppose I have the Loch 

 Long plant ticketed as found by myself at Arroquhar, Dumfries- 

 shu-e, August 23, 1842, marked as H. inuloides by me, but 

 corrected H. strictum by Backhouse. I find no trace of ever having 

 called it H. Lapeyrousii. I have also a specimen from Killin 

 (August 1, 1844), formerly called H. dcnticidatwn and H. strictum; 

 and one from Inverarnan, Loch Lomond, similarly named; w^hich 

 I believe are H. Deu-ari. Also one from Glen Maliene, Antrim, 

 gathered by I. Carroll, and called H. strictum by Backhouse, which 

 I suppose may be H. Deu-ari. One named H. strictum, by Mr. T. 

 Drummond, from Aberdona, Clackmannan (August 12, 1875), is 

 api^arently correct. — C. C. Babington. 



Mentha puhescens, Willd. Brookside, near Mitcheldean, West 

 Gloucester, Se^Dtember 13, 1877. — AugustimLey. Mentha puhescens 

 I call M. hirsuta, L., and do not separate the forms given in the 

 ' Students' Flora,' even if they are distinguishable from M. aquatica. 

 — C. C. Babington. Is hirsuta a slip of the pen for aquatica? 



Stachys annua, L. .Downs near Sevenoaks, Kent, August 4, 

 1873. Coll. by Jas. Fletcher ; com. by W. H. Beeby. The 

 enclosed specimen was collected by my friend, Mr. John Fletcher, 

 who is now in Canada. He writes me that it was growing 

 abundantly on the open downs. — W. H. Beeby. 



Salix Russelliana, Sm., fide Leefe. Tweedside, below Trows 

 Crags, Roxburgh, May 29 and September 13, 1876 ; June 12, 1877. 

 Mr. Leefe, after seeing a specimen, rex^lied: — " S. riusseUiana in 

 my opinion, though the axis of the aments is more woolly and the 

 leaves broader than usual." S. IlusscUiana, Sm., male and female ; 

 PeatingBog, Roxburgh, May, 1876, and September, 1877. Banks 

 of Teviot, near Kelso, Roxburgh, May and September, 1877. 

 This without the catkins would pass for alba. I send a series of 

 Russelliana that have all been seen and examined by the Rev. J. 

 E. Leefe, who, as will be seen, includes a wide range of forms 



