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f. elatinr. Wet and shady wealden ditch, near Witley. Fully 

 a yard high. 



f. jlaccida. In several shady copses on sand and clay, near 

 "Witley. Leaves thin, mostly deflexed ; plant slender. 



f. ramosissima. Garden-ground, Witley. Much branched from 

 the base upwards ; branches curved, ascending. 



E. Lamyi F. Schultz. This species is attributed to Wirtgen in 

 Lond. Cat. ed. 8, probably from its having been distributed among 

 his exsiccata ; but it is his ' E'. virgatuui' (Mon. p. 109). It is 

 also only credited to one English county, presumably Worcester- 

 shire, where Mr. Towndrow found it in 1885 (J. of B. p. 349, 

 1885). But Prof. Haussknecht mentions a specimen from a brick- 

 field, Middlesex, in Herb. Brit. Mus. ; and also found it growing 

 near Hampton Court, as well as (Mr. Beeby informs me) near 

 Eichmond. Both these stations are probably in Surrey. Other 

 counties are cited (Mon. p. 107) from Watson, 'Cybele,'p. 512. 

 I had some doubt about this being correct, so wrote to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett on the point. He kindly sent me the following extract, 

 adding that Watson only gave the localities as reported, without 

 intending to vuiuh for their correctness. 



** E. Lannji is a plant recently found in Kent, by Mr. T. Moore, 

 and suggested by Mr. Babington to be the species imperfectly 

 described under that name in Gren. and Godron's ' Fl. de France' ; 

 and who remark that it is ' extremely near E. tetrat/omun.' I have 

 seen it in several places in N. Surrey and N. Hants, and have not 

 hitherto satisfactorily distinguished it from ordinary E. tetrcujonum, 

 although there are some physiological differences by which it may 

 usually be recognized. It represents E. virgatum (Fr.) with some 

 good British botanists, although placed in a different section by 

 Grenier and Godron." — Wats. ' Cyb.' iii., p. 350 (1852). Yet, 

 in ' Comp. of Cyb. Brit.,' 1870, p. 512, he says: — '' Epilohium 

 Lamyi 'F. Schultz.'— Provinces 2, 3, 4, 5. Kent, Mr. T. Moore. 

 Hants, Hereford, &c. Ambiguity. Cybele iii. 350. Phytol. iv. 933. 

 Apparently poor examples of A' ohscuruni so named." I rather 

 doubt whether British botanists had distinguished E. uhscurum so 

 early as 1852 ; and the ' tetrcujonum ' intended in the above 

 quotation may have had reference to that plant. Still, I am sure 

 that E. Lamiji will prove to be not uncommon in the south of 

 England ; it appears to be more frequent than E. adnatum in W. 

 Surrey. I found it in three parishes: — near Witley, on wealden 

 clay and sand ; near TUford, on sand ; and near Ash Green, in 

 ditches on clay, below the chalk. It also occurred in a wood on 

 the chalk, near Wye, E. Kent. I append some hel^Dful extracts 

 from the Monograph (p. 109). " The development is exactly like 

 that of E. adnatum; the rosettes are, as a rule, more tender, the 

 colour of their leaves darker green, more shining, shading off* 

 towards blue-green, while those of E. adnatum incline more to 

 yellow-green" . . . "The assertion of F. Schultz in ' Pollichia,' 

 1855, that E. Lamyi is annual and dies off in winter, together with 

 the off-sets, which only appear long after the flowering-season, was 

 erroneous. I have found, on the contrary, that the rosettes stand 



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