252 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



Vale Bridge Common, near Hayward's Heath, East Sussex. Sep- 

 tember 2, 1876. There is no record for East Sussex in 'Topog. 

 Bot.'— J. L. Warren. 



Sclerochloa procumbens, Beauv., var. Specimens of a perfectly 

 upright form from clay fields, Kii-kdale, north of Liverpool. Sep- 

 tember, 1874. The type is common in similar situations both 

 sides of the Mersey ; but the plant sent is so distinct in its general 

 appearance as to render it worthy of notice. Besides the different 

 habit of growth, the whole plant is far less rigid in its character. 

 — H. S. Fisher. A curious form. I have one like it from Scar- 

 borough Pier, collected by Crawford. — J. T. Boswell. 



Bromus asper, Mm'r., var. Southwick, W. Sussex. August 18, 

 1876. Not true Benekenii [i.e., not the Kensington Garden plant), 

 but off the serotinus type in the Benekenii direction. Interesting as 

 being a small example of serotinus, and yet with several lowest-node 

 panicle branches, it being usually only the full and luxuriant 

 specimens of serotinus which develop extra branchlets. The pales 

 seem rather more equal than in ordinary serotinus also, and rather 

 more uniformly hairy. — J. L. Warren. I believe that the two forms, 

 serotinus and Benekenii, are too much connected by intermediates to 

 permit them to be ranked as more than varieties. — J. T. Boswell. 



Seiiecio vulgaris, var. hibernicus, mihi. I now think the Cork 

 plant, to which I gave the above name, must be S. vernalis, Wald- 

 stein and Kitabel. Until this spring I have never succeeded in 

 getting it to survive the winter out of doors ; but now it is in 

 flower in the open ground, and has a very different habit from the 

 unbranched individuals grown m pots, on which my opinion of its 

 being a radiate form of 8. vulgaris, L., was founded. It is, when 

 well developed, a much-branched plant, with larger heads than 

 S. vulgaris, and longer peduncles ; the heads droop less than in 

 examples of 5'. vulgaris of similar size, and the achenes are more 

 oblong-fusiform, and the ligulate florets of the ray become revolute 

 in the evening. I do not find this noticed in descriptions of 

 S. vernalis; but it appears to occur in the allied species — for 

 example, in the Madeiran 8. incrassatus, Lowe (5. crassifoHus, 

 /3. Loivei, B.C.), Lowe, ' El. Mad.' p. 446 ; also in 8. coronojiifolius , 

 Desf., and 8. leucanthewifolius, Poir. (teste ' Boissier El. Or.,' 

 vol. iii., p. 388.) The Cork plant agrees with Hungarian specimen 

 of 8. vernalis, but not with one from Smyrna (Balansa, No. 241) ; 

 but Boissier says of it (I.e.), " Species folioruum divisione, caulibus 

 plus minus elongatis et in excelsioribus nanis valde polymorpha." 

 If the Cork plant be 8. vernalis, it cannot well be indigenous, as the 

 species is confined to S. E. Europe. — J. T. Boswell, May 17, 1878. 



Mentha cardiaca. Hasley Common, Warwickshu'e, October, 1876. 

 — H. Bromwich. This is the first specimen of M. cardiaca which 

 has come into my hands, except from a garden. — J. T. Boswell. 



Symphytum asperrimum, Bieb., and 8. u})lnndicum ? Cultivated 

 in Balmuto garden, 1876. I have been induced to send a few 

 specimens of two forms of Symphytum , both of which I had under 

 the name of asperrimum, but which seemed to me distinct, in 

 consequence of some remarks on 8. asperrimum , patens and officinale, 



