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plant to be a form of B. precox. As the latter plant is still culti- 

 vated, it is very likely that there are several forms of it of garden 

 origin. Besides this, Jordan describes three species which are now 

 treated as varieties in Camus' Catalofjne. — W. H. Beeby. 



Cochlearia danica L,, var. Walton Gaol, Lancashire, April and 

 October, 1895. Having had two different opinions regarding this 

 plant (see Pwport, 1893, p. 401, and 1894, p. 4G4), I thought a 

 further supply might prove of interest to the members. — J. A. 

 Wheldon. I do not see any reason for calling this a variety ; it is 

 an ordinary annual form of the plant. Syme {Knfj. Bot. iii.) 

 doubted whether this species ever bore angulated root-leaves, and 

 my own limited experience in growing the plant from seed would have 

 led me to the same conclusion ; but Mr. Wheldon's specimens show 

 that the radical leaves are occasionally slightly angulated. When 

 the plant assumes the biennial habit, however, the apex of the root- 

 stock usually branches at the end of the first season's growth, and 

 each of these heads produces a tuft of ivy-like leaves ; but these are 

 not the true root-leaves. In the Pieport for 1894, p. 464, Mr. 

 Marshall speaks of a plant from the above locality as being " un- 

 typical" for C. danica on account of the "stalked stem-leaves," &c. 

 I do not know the meaning of this, unless we are to infer that the 

 specimen in Linn. Herb, has sessile stem-leaves. If so, while it 

 may be technically the type, it would certainly be a very uncharac- 

 teristic example of the species as it usually occurs in nature. — 

 W. H. Beeby. 



Malva moschata L. var. Ramondiana Gren. & Godr. FL Fr. i. 

 289, where it is described as having " feuilles toutes entieres, 

 dentees." It occurred in a gravelly heathy field near Tilehurst, 

 Berkshire, August, 1895, and from its bright- coloured flowers and 

 nearly entire leaves was a conspicuous plant. Malra moschata is 

 common in the vicinity, but more frequently as the type — the var. 

 laciniata Gren. & Godr. /. c. — "toutes les feuilles divisoes en lanieies 

 etruites." Occasionally the var. intermedia Gren. & Godr. /. c. occurs ; 

 this has "feuilles caulinaires divisees en lanieres etroites; les radi- 

 cales reniformes crcnelees." I have not seen the var. Ramondiana 

 elsewhere. In France it appears to be rare, since Gren. & Godr. 

 only record it from the Bagneres de Luchon, where Kamond's 

 Herbarium is preserved, which I had an opportunity of inspecting a 

 few years back. — G. Claridge Druce. "A very interesting variety 

 of Malva moschata L. This certainly must closely approach var. 

 Ramondiana Gren. & Godr., but I only know this from the de- 

 scription, which is 'feuilles toutes entieres, dentees.' The upper 

 leaves here are certainly lobed." — E. G. Baker. ' 



Rosa stylosa Desr. var. pseudo-riisticana Crepin. Chctnole, Dorset, 

 22nd June, 1895. I send specimens of this well-marked rose from 

 one of two new Dorset localities in which I have seen it in fair 

 quantity in recent years, the other being the borders of Piddle Wood, 

 near Sturminster Newton. I think it extremely probable that the 

 form has been produced by hybridization between /i'. systyla Bast, 

 and R. arvensis Huds., though now in some districts (as in the 



