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grandiflor.' Can this be the early state of holo teoides ? Dr. Buchanan 

 White says that the early state bears much resemblance to the alpine 

 variety of triviale, which occurs on Little Kilrannock, Clova, Lochnagar, 

 &c. This alpine variety is termed in the London Catalogue alpestre^ 

 Lindbl. ; the name alpinum, Koch, lieing inconvenient on account of 

 there being a species alpinum in the genus." — John T. Boswell, 

 1875. 



Elatine hexandra, DC, var. *' Cut Mill Ponds, Sept., 1872. This 

 is a rather remarkable variety, growing completely submerged on 

 rank deep mud. I fancy it would get a separate name on the 

 Continent. I dissected the fruit with Dr. Trimen, and we found 

 it to fall under E. hexandra, and distinctly not under E Hydropi^per, 

 though the fruit is rather more curved than in the typical E. hexandra. 

 It is not, therefore, the E. majuscula of the Belgian Bulletin." — 

 J. L Waeeen. 



Lupinus perefinis, L. ** Island in the Dee at Kingcausie, Kin- 

 cardineshire. May, 1875." — J. B. Foetescue. '* This Lupine seems 

 likely to become thoroughly naturalised in Scotland. It is extremely 

 abundant in the island from which Miss Fortescue procured the speci- 

 men sent to the BotaDical Exchange Club, and I saw it on another 

 island a few miles lower down. Dr. P. Buchanan White reports it 

 on the Dee and Cluny at Castleton of Braemar, and the former also 

 from the banks of the Tay. Mr. William Fortescue saw it on the 

 Spey."_JoHN T. Boswell, May, 1875. 



Lathyrus hirsutus, L. '' The Surrey locality (viz., a bank at 

 Warlingham, six miles from Croydon) is, I believe, a genuine one. 

 The plant occurs somewhat plentifully on a rather steep bank above, 

 and at the top of a sloping cornfield, growing with Poterium, Lotus 

 corniciclatus, and other plants that grow in similar situations on chalky 

 banks in a rather secluded valley among the chalk hills, below 

 Wormsheath. It may have escaped from the cornfield, but I only 

 found two plants at the edge of the corn, and these seemed rather to 

 have come from the bank above than to have been sown with the corn ; 

 altogether, I think it may justly be entitled to be called a wild 

 Surrey plant, if not indigenous. First found by Mr. Robinson, of 

 Croydon, in July, 1873." — A. Bennett. "On a second visit to the 

 locality for this plant I am convinced it is undoubtedly wild. I found 

 it at intervals for about a quarter of a mile beyond the original station 

 among bushes on the steep bank running along the top of the fields, 

 in a similar situation to which I have gathered it near Hadleigh 

 Castle, in Essex ; and the bank is so steep that it is impossible for 

 such seeds as the Lathyrus to blow there, and as the wheat, &c., 

 cultivated in the fields is taken down from the station to the farm 

 (Halleloo), and not up the bank, the seeds could not have been so 

 placed there. My friend, Mr. Beeby, of Croydon, in a note to Mr. 

 Watson (quoted in ' Typographical Botany') is mistaken in the plant 

 being first found in the cornfield. Mr. Robinson found it on the bank 

 above the field. The difi'erence in the size of the specimens sent is 

 from some being collected among the bushes and some among the 

 short herbage, and those of this year no doubt partially from the very 

 dry season." — A. Bennett, July, 1874. 



Buhus adsiitus, G. Gcnev. ; R. mutahi'lis, G. Gcnev. ''Two Rubi 



