282 RITOllT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHAXGE CLUB. 



in flower when I first saw it, but could not manage to do so. I hope 

 to carry out my intention in 187G." — J. Ccnxack. 



Pijrola ?««//«, Swartz. "Harlow Hill, Harrogate, June, 1875. 

 Xew to M. W. Yorkshire (v. c. 61)."— T. J. Foggitx. 



Solanuni niiirum, Linn., h. miniatam. " Coast near Whitstable, 

 Kent, September, 1875." — F. J. Haxbuuy. Two or three specimens. 



Verbascum hybrid. " Stone-quarry near "Warwick, September 

 1875, Seems to be between Tliapsiis and virgatum, growing with the 

 former." — H. Bkomwich. Evidently a hybrid, from the abortive 

 capsules, and quite likely to be between the parents Mr. liromwich 

 suggests, as it grows with Thapsus. If sent without information, and 

 judging from dried specimens only, I should have suggested V. vir- 

 gatum and V. Lychnitis as possible parents, as the pubescence and 

 shape of upper leaves approach tho.se of V. Lgchnitis. — J. T. 



BOSWELL. 



2Icntha sativa, Linn., var. suhglabra. Baker. " By a ditch in the 

 Tavy Valley, S. Devon, August, 1875." This Mint appears to be in- 

 digenous ill this and a few other spots in the neighbourhood of Ply- 

 month, but is, I should say, mostly a denizen. It (juite comes between 

 normal M. sativa and M. rubra. After arriving at this conclusion, 1 

 was pleased to find M. Deseglise remarking on a specimen of the Tavy 

 Valley plant : *' Je vois dans cet echantillon une Mcuthe du groupe de 

 M. rubra, Sm., et non une M. sativa^ — T. 11. A. B. 



Ihicrium liotrys, Linn. " Boxhill, Surrey, August, 1875. This 

 plant will probably ere long be much less plentiful in this locality, 

 many acres of the ground in which it grows having been planted with, 

 young Firs, which in the course of a few years will no doubt smother 

 the plant. Some of the specimens were collected among the young 

 Firs, others on the open sloping side of the down towards the head ot" 

 the valley. On the same day a friend and myself searched the Book- 

 ham station (which should be Bagdon Hill, not Bagley Hill, as in the 

 ' Flora of Surrey'), but without success. I have also looked for it 

 about Sanderstead, near Croydon, as Mr. Borrer many years ago, in 

 the ' Phytologist,' mentioned having been sliown plants by Mr. 

 Anderson, of Chelsea, as coming from Sanderstead, but I have not 

 succeeded in finding it." — A. Benjs'Ett. Also sent from a " chalk 

 pasture, Boxhill," by Mr. Groves. 



Uiricularia vulgaris, Linn. " Moccas, Herefordshire, September, 

 1872." — AuGusTiN Ley. Not given for the county (36) in Top. 

 Bot. 



Utricularia negleda, Lehm. " Ditch near Penzance, Cornwall, 

 August, 23, 1875." — Mrs. E. A. Lojiax. In Eng. Bot., ed. iii., the 

 leaves of U. negleda are stated, on the authority of lleichenbach, to be 

 not bristly even when young. In this Penzance plant, however, they 

 are decidedly bristly, so there would seem to be some doubt as to the 

 correctness of the name ; but in the absence of flowers it is difiicult 

 to determine the species. Still a comparison with a Kentish specimen 

 of undoubted neglccta, for which I am indebted to Mr. Hanbury, 

 leads me to think this correctly named. — T. R. A. B. The small 

 bladders and fine segments of the leaves lead me to endorse the name 

 negleda in spite of the bristles on the young leaves. I observe that 

 some of the leaves are without bristles ; probably the character is by 



