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EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE 

 CLUB FOR 1887. 



Edited by George Nicholson, A.L.S. 



Viola Curtisii Forst., vars. On the sandhills at Southshore, 

 Blacki30ol, W. Lancashire, 2nd June, 1887. Sent to show the great 

 extremes in habit and colouring. In the early summer this plant 

 completely covers the sandhills, and all colours, cream, yellow, pale 

 lavender, light and dark blue, and purple, grow intermixed. In most 

 other stations where I have seen this plant it affects flat, damp, 

 sandy areas, and usually presents a uniformity of habit and colour. 

 At Southshore, St. Anne's, and Lytham, all on the West Lancashire 

 coast, it is quite as frequent on the dry sides of the sandhills as in 

 their hollows. — Chakles Bailey. I have failed to get distinctive 

 names, or even definite opinions, on these Violas from the referees to 

 whom they were sent. — G. N. 



SteUaria umbrosa Opiz. Two forms ; one glabrous, and the other 

 with calyces and pedicels hairy. Tortworth, West Gloucestershire. 

 This may be a new record for Vice-Co. 34. I have collected a series 

 of specimens to illustrate a point which has already been mentioned 

 here aud there, namely, that this plant is commonly glabrous, but 

 that there is also a frequent form of it having the pedicels and 

 calyces hairy. The species is not rare either in West Gloucester or 

 North Somerset, and one can readily find both its varieties or states 

 intermingled on the same hedgebank. I have carefully examined 

 and compared these plants, not forgetting the ripe seeds, and am 

 satisfied that, beyond the character named, there is no structural 

 difference whatever between them. — Jas. Walter White. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria L. Near Stoutiug, E. Kent, 3rd July, 1887. 

 I send a variety of this plant, in which the stem is very hispid with 

 spreading hairs. Dr. Lange names it var. hirsutissima DC, but as 

 that plant is described as having red flowers, I suppose Dr. Lange 

 would include under that name also the var. Allionii DC, which 

 differs only in having yellow flowers, and which, strictly, seems to be 

 the name of the plant. This form is certainly not the common one 

 of our chalk hills, which usually has the stem, &c., subglabrous, or 

 with a little adpressed hair. I have met with the variety in one 

 locality in Sm-rey, as well as about Stouting, in E. Kent, whence 

 I now send examples, and where it seems to be abundant. — W. H. 

 Beeby. 



liubus cordifolhis W^ & N. Overhanging a brook near Harracles 

 Mill, Rudyard, Staffordshire, 8th September, 1887. A new county 

 record, detected by Mr. J. G. Baker. In a walk of about six miles, 

 between Kudyard and Rushton, eight other liubi, not previously 

 recorded for Co. 39, were noted, viz. : Lindleianus,villicaulis,iimbrosiis, 

 Spren(jelii, Burreri, liadula, in/estus, and tuberculatiis (diimetorum) ; 

 and the tract traversed was quite as remarkable for the absence of 

 forms which might have been expected to have occurred, li. discolor 

 for instance. We also collected in the same district, and county, 

 the following species, not recorded in • Topographical Botany,' 

 ed. 2, viz. : Ranunculus j^dtatus, Fotentilla procumbms, Epilobium 



