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in the ' Journal of Botany,' 1876, by Mr. R. A. Pryor (p. 214), and 

 Prof. Babington (p. 244). Neither has any claim to be considered 

 a British plant. S. asj^errimum I have from the neighbourhood 

 of Bath, sent to the Botanical Society of London, by Mr. French, 

 about twenty-five years ago ; the other form I had sent from Bath 

 by Mr. T. B. Flower and Mr. C. E. Broome, whilst I was writing 

 the genus Symphytum in the third edition of ' English Botany,' — 

 these were sent to me as S. asperrimum. I have also a specimen 

 from the Rev. W. H. Purchas, labelled Symphytum orientale ? by 

 the River Bradford, near Yurlgrave, Derbyshire, July, 1876. Very 

 probably this is the plant mentioned by Mr. Pryor in the * Journal 

 of Botany.' The i)lant which I consider true asj^errimwn has the 

 veins of the leaves deeply impressed, so that they appear very 

 rugose, the stem-leaves not decurrent, and with longer petioles, 

 and even the floral leaves scarcely so, the flowers bright blue, 

 with the aj)ical portion not much wider than the tube, and 

 furrowed. The other plant has the leaves less rugose and 

 distinctly decurrent, though much less so than in S. officinale, 

 the flowers pale blue, more dingy than in asperrim,um, and the 

 apical portion swollen until its diameter is much greater than 

 that of the tube, and not at all furrowed. In flower it very 

 closely resembles specimens of *S'. uplandicum, Nyman, which 

 I have from Dr. Ahlberg, of Upsala ; but unfortunately I have 

 not seen fruiting specimens of this plant, which Fries considers 

 to be the true S. orientale of Lmnaeus, and of which he says : 

 ** Medium inter S. officinale et S. asperrimum.'" The plant I have 

 in cultivation differs from S. officinale in its greater size, ovate- 

 cordate root-leaves shghtly decurrent on the petiole, much less 

 decurrent stem-leaves, and larger flowers ; but, above all, by the 

 calyx- segments in fruit becoming muricated as in S. asperrimum. 

 The hairs on the branches are also stiffer than those of S. officinale, 

 but much less so than in true S. asperrimum,. With S. orientale, 

 DC. Prod., it has no affinity. — J. T. Boswell. 



Statice hahusiensis, Fries. Some time since, my attention was 

 directed by the Rev. H. H. Higgms to the two forms of Statice 

 growing on the Mersey shore at Bromborough, but I did not visit 

 the locality until Mr. Robert Brown informed me that his attention 

 had been drawn to the fact that specimens in the Edinbm-gh 

 Herbarium, collected by the late Dr. Dickenson, proved to be the 

 above species. On the 2nd of September, Mr. Brown and myself 

 found that plant growing abundantly at the above locality inter- 

 mixed with a few plants of typical Limonium. This is a welcome 

 addition to our Cheshire Flora. — H. S. Fisher. 



As an Appendix to the Rei:)ort of Kew Gardens for 1877, lately 

 published, — which contains much useful and interesting informa- 

 tion on economic botany of an authentic character, — a list of the 

 AroidefF cultivated in the Gardens is given. This has been pre- 

 pared by Mr. E. N. Brown, of the Kew Herbarium, and contains 

 nearly 250 species. 



