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say without hesitation that it is not No. 92 of that collection. 

 I believe its nearest ally is H. Dovreme, Fries, but the polycephalous 

 panicle is too different to permit me to join them. H. Dnrrmse- 

 protrartum, however (Lind., 'Hierac. Scand. Exsicc.,' Nos. 40-41), 

 has a panicle more like H. Dewarl : so I requested Mr. J. G. Baker 

 to compare H. Dewari with Fries and Lagger's specimens of 

 fi. Dob'rnise-protractuni, and his answer is: " I feel quite satisfied 

 that your plant is distinct from these (H. Dorrense and H. J>ovreme- 

 pnttrartiini).'' Being unable to identify the plant with any described 

 species, I am reluctantly forced to give it a provisional name, and 

 have chosen for that purpose one to commemorate the late Dr. 

 Andrew Dewar, of Dunfermline, to whose explorations of the 

 botany of Clackmannan, Kinross, South Perth, and West Fife, we 

 are much indebted. Few local botanists appear to have worked 

 their district better, and been more careful to avoid erroneous 

 records. Most of the specimens in British herbaria, previous to 

 1875 (when Mr. T. Drummond sent it to the Botanical Exchange 

 Club as " H. strictum, broad-leaved form"), were sent by Dr. Dewar 

 from Linmill and the Ochills under the name of H. ' inuhndes,' 

 Tausch, and H. ' rif/idimi,' Hartman. There is, however, no doubt 

 that the plant was first collected in the Loch Lomond district by 

 Dr. J. H. Balfour. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Tom Drummond for taking me to 

 the stations at Linmill, on the Black Devon, near Clackmannan 

 and Glen of Sorrow, above Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and Glen 

 Quay, close to where it enters Glen Devon. At Linmill the plant 

 grows on the banks of the stream in an open wood, and many of 

 the si)ecimens are extremely luxuriant ; it grows in compan}^ with 

 H. strictum, which here flowers a fortnight later than H. Dewari. 

 Li the Glen of Sorrow the station is on ledges of rock. In Glen 

 Quay it grows on ledges of rock and on landslips ; and here, in 

 1876, it was in great profusion, growing m company with H. i/otJii- 

 cmn, and flowering at the same time. H. strictum grows in Glen 

 Devon, about a mile and a half fi-om the station for H. Dewari. 



May not H. Dewari be the Scotch plant referred to by Fries in 

 his ' Symbol^e ' as H. Durrense / — John T. Boswell, Dec. 1, 1877. 



[The description of H. Dewari was read at a meeting of the 

 Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh, December, 1877.] 



(ientiana AmareUa, Linn., var. prcecoj-, Smith. Biddlesdowns, 

 near Croydon, Surrey, June 3, 1876. Sent, as although probably 

 not rare when looked for, only recorded from Tring (as verna) and 

 Lincoln. Scattered along a chalky bank, with Poli/t/ala, Lotus, &c. 

 — A. Bennett. I have found spring-flowering plants of the allied 

 species, G. campestris, in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. They 

 have also been met with in the Isle of Wight. — T. E. A. B. 



Atriple.v sinuata, Hoff. Coast at G. Coppard's Gap, West Sussex. 

 August, 1876. In the last report of the Exchange Club (see p. 23) 

 I hinted that this plant was probably introduced in this station by 

 ships' ballast. This year I have confirmed this fact, having dis- 

 covered a dozen more plants near and around a large square black 

 building used for the storing of grain, a furlong nearer Brighton 



