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even the severe winters of Thnriugia quite well. The rosettes, too, 

 already appear shortly before the seeds ripen." ... "At the first 

 glance it is distint^uishable from E. ailnatum by the more glaucous 

 green of the smaller, much more distant, and less deeply dentate 

 leaves ; by the short pubescence, which is particuhirly well-marked 

 at the time of flowering ; and also by the rose coloured flowers, twice 

 as large, and always opening?, even in the same localities, several 

 weeks enrlier than in E. adnatuni." Dr. Haussknecht, who has 

 evidently had exceptional facilities at Weimar for the constant 

 comparison of the two plants, pronounces emphatically in favour of 

 their specific difference. The forms I have hitherto met with he 

 names annua, biennis, aprica, 2^iisilla, and umhrosa. 



E. PALUSTRE L., var. hwamluJccfolium Lecour & Lamotte. Mr. 

 Beeby sent this from Shetland, and Mr. Miller from Invervar, Glen 

 Lyon, Mid-Perth. I believe I have seen it in the Braemar district 

 and in Caithness ; and it probably occurs throughout Britain. 



f. vdnor simplex amiH^tifoHa = E. lineare Krause. An elegant 

 little state, found by Mr. Miller on the shores of Loch Kinnard- 

 lochy, Mid-Perth. 



E. ANAGALLiDiFOLiuM Laui. Durlug three seasons' visits to the 

 Scotch mountams I have been unable to detect any ' alpinuni' 

 distinct from this, as separated in our handbooks. Mon. p. 154 : — • 

 " In Babington, ' Man. Brit. Bot.' ed. 7 (1874), an E. aipinuni is 

 separated off from E. anat/allidi/oHum Lam. ; the former having 

 " stoles or barren stems aestival rosulate," the latter, ' stoles or 

 barren stems aBstival leafy not rosulate.' Hooker also distinguishes 

 a ' var. ana(/aUi(IifoIia ' in ' Stud. Flora.' From the appearance of 

 the corresponding specimens in Mas. Brit., the first is the taller, 

 slender form, growing in very damp, shady places, with larger, 

 laxer, longer-stalked and, proportionately, narrower leaves ; the 

 other being the small, compact form of open ground." It therefore 

 seems best to expunge E. alpimun from our list." In the Kew 

 Herbarium are specimens of E. ahinefuliam x anagallidifolium, 

 labelled ' Clova, Forfar (Gardiner)'; 'Glen Dole, Forfar,' with 

 the parents (Mon. p. 167). Can it be that this or another hybrid 

 may account for the separation above-named ? I think it the more 

 probable, as Prof. Babington referred my own herbarium-sheets of 

 onat/alliilifolinm X ubscunim from W. Sutherland to E. anatjaUidi- 

 i'olium, from their resemblance to a cultivated plant so named by the 

 late Mr. Watson ; an opinion in which I cannot at all concur. 



E. ADNATUM X OBSCURUM = K. Thurin(/i((cuiJi Hausslai. Lane 

 near Witley, Surrey, on the border of the green sand and the 

 wealden. New to Britain, and apparently only known hitherto 

 from the Ettersberg, near Weimar. Just intermediate between the 

 parents ! 



E. Lamyi X MONTANUM = F. llaiisshnechtidninn Borbas. Sandy 

 ground near Tilford, Surrey. New to Britain. 



E. MONTANUM X OBSCURUM = E. af/(jreffatum Celakovsky. A 



* I see that Messrs. Groves suggest a return to ' K. (ilp'nnim L.' ; but it is 

 surely better to follow the monograplier of the genus. 



