NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 213 



never since been on the island referred to at the proper time to 

 search for better sj)ecimens. — S. A. Stewart. — Prof. Babington has 

 certified to the Magheramorne specimens sent out through the Ckib 

 being A. nemorosum. — T. E. A. B. 



Hypoclmris glabra, Linn. Hedgebank just beyond the first 

 hedgerow on right-hand side of main road from Hoylake to Little 

 Meols, Hoylake, Wirral, Cheshire, July 1, 1876. A defined station 

 to affirm a record for Wnral made in 1837. — J. Harbord Lewis. 



Soiichus arvensis, Linn., b. glabra. Thames-side between Putney 

 and Hammersmith, Surrey, August, 1873. I see your Desiderata 

 List asks for this certamly rare form. I send a specimen. I never 

 gathered the plant elsewhere. Here I rather impute its glabrous- 

 ness to being tide-washed. — J. L. Warren. 



Crejjis nicaensis, Balb. Upland pasture, Harlow Hill, near Har- 

 rogate, M. W. York, June 30th, 1876. For the last eight or ten 

 years when at Harrogate, I had noticed in the above pasture a 

 peculiar Crepis which I could never satisfy myself to be " virens." 

 July 5th, this year, 1876, I sent a few dried specimens of it to Mr. 

 J. G. Baker, for examination. I received the* following reply : 

 "I do not feel sure about the Crepis. The involucre is much more 

 glandular than in ordinary rirens. There is a closely-allied species 

 called niccEensis, which has this more glandular involucre in com- 

 bination with brown, instead of yellow, stigmas, achenes narrowed 

 and scabrous at the top, and outer perianth spreading. Your 

 specimens are rather too young to judge fairly of these last two 

 points. Nicceensk comes between biennis and virens, and is likely 

 enough to be introduced with foreign seed." July 11th, I sent to 

 Mr. Baker a few of the most mature dried specimens I had, and 

 also enclosed a few fresh-gathered ones. I received the following 

 reply: "I feel satisfied now that the Crepis is really nicmeyisis. 

 Fruiting involucre and achenes of yom's agree with undoubted 

 continental examples, and I find the beak being scabrous to be an 

 inconstant character. I send 50 specimens for distribution. — 

 Thomas J. Foggitt. On the north bank of the Tweed, near Spring 

 Hall, Eoxburgh. June, 1874-76. This is a very variable plant, 

 as will be seen from specimens sent. — Andrew 'Brothekston. 

 Occasionally seen about Plymouth, as an introduction with grass 

 and clover seeds. — T. R. A. B. This plant seems to be becoming 

 more frequent, though doubtless introduced with grass seeds. The 

 flowers of Mr. Foggitt' s specimens are considerably smaller than 

 usual, and, if this be frequently the case, no doubt the plant would 

 be liable to be passed over as C. virens. — J. T. Boswell. 



Hieraciu)nDeivari,m.ihi; H.strictwn in part, Back. Stem sparingly 

 leafy, slightly corymbosely or sub-corymbosely branched at the 

 apex, scabrous, sparingly woolly, with spreading or retrorse white 

 hairs ; peduncles sparingly clothed with stellate down, with few 

 black-based hairs and a very few black gland-ti^^ped ones. Rosettes 

 of radical leaves, x^roduced on seedling plants, and in late autumn 

 on plants which have flowered. Leaves of the rosette oval, rather 

 abruptly attenuated into shoi-t sparingly woolly petioles, sub- 

 acute, slightly denticulate, with the teeth often reduced to callous 



