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Euphorbia, dtjlcis in Essex. — The accompanying Eaphorhia grew 

 in a ditch under a thick hedge at 'Vs"'"est Bergholt, about four miles from 

 Colchester, Essex. The nearest house is two fields off. It grew 

 pretty thickly for about fifteen yards, and seems well established, but 

 I could not find it anywhere else in close proximity. — J. C. Shen- 

 STONE. [The plant is E. dulcis, L., already recorded as an alien from 

 two or three more northern counties.— Ed.] 



RcjMEX MARTTiiius, Z. forma JVarrenii. -^A.t a meeting of the 

 Brandenburg Botanical Society in June, 1874, as reported in the 

 recently published " Yerhandlungen " (p. 100), the President, Prof. 

 A. Braun, made some observations on the presumed hybrid Hume^c, 

 described and figured in last year's volume of this Journal (p. 161, tab. 

 146). He remarked that the hybrid had been already noticed and 

 described as H. JSnaJli, by Celakovsky, in the " Lotos" for 1869, p. 

 167, and in his " Prodr. der Elora Bohmens," p. 158. 



Alchemillas of the Faroe Islands. — The genus Alchetnilla in 

 its various species is abundantly represented here in a number 

 of individuals, with the usual result of variety in form. The large 

 smooth-headed form of A. vulgaris is the less common (we found 

 it at Stroemoe and Hestoe) ; the hairy form, on the other hand 

 {A. vulgaris, var. suhsertcea, Koch. = A. montana, Willd.), is very 

 common, especially in the flatter country, and presents itself 

 under many forms, now and then with the lobes of the leaves 

 cleft half way down,, thus approaching A. fissa, from which it 

 is readily separated by the dull colour of the latter, and by its own 

 spreading hairs and broader leaf-lobes, which are serrated along the 

 whole margin, at one time with round teeth, then suddenly sharp- 

 toothed. On the higher hills a dwarf form is common, which 

 resembles A.fi^a, var. /3 in habit. A. vulgaris was first noticed by 

 Svabp (Sjt^sko^ra). The Faroe name belongs to the plant with 

 usually seven-lobed leaves. A. fissa, Schummel, This species 

 occurs under two forms, which though sufficiently different in 

 aspect and with no intermediate states, hardly afford characters distinct 

 enough to be accepted as separate species, particularly as the localities 

 where they are met with seem to show one to be a local form of the 

 other. The large form which we have called A. fissa, Schum., a. 

 wrgentea, Don, is figured in Fl. Dan., t. 2101, under the name of A. 

 fissa, and was described by Horneman CTill. til oec. PL, p. 130), with 

 mention of its being found by Foroh hammer in the Faroes. It seems 

 to be synonymous with A. conjuncta, Bab. (Man. Brit. Bot., ed. 2, p. 

 93), where is found a very striking description of the plant, and where 

 it is also noticed that Trevelyan found it in the Faroes. He has it in 

 his catalogue under the name of A. argentea (though Martins in his 

 catalogue says that both A. argentea, Don, and A. fissa certainly rest 

 upon a misconception) ; it is probably also given under the name of 

 A. vulg., var hyhrida, L., the description of which, however, answers 

 better to the above-mentioned form suhsericea of A. vulgaris, with 



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