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went to another part of the fen, about a mile distant, and there 

 found plenty of erectum, verum,'Q,ndi many intermediates in colour, 

 the most beautiful being a very soft yellow, quite different from 

 the rank yellow of verum. Last year I found that veruvi, erectum, 

 and the intermediates cover a large space in the rough fen — thirty 

 acres or more. — E. W. Hunnybun. 



G. asjjerum Schreb. Downs above Eeigate, Surrey, v.-c. 17, 

 June 6, 1909. According to Dr. Williams (Prodr. Fl. Brit, part 5, 

 p. 219) this Eeigate plant should be labelled G. austriacum Jacq., 

 leaving G. asperum to represent the scarcer plant with small 

 fruits (1 mm. broad), densely hispid lower leaves and lower part 

 of stem. The Eeigate plant, on the other hand, has fruits 2 mm. 

 broad, and non-pubescent (or only ciliate) lower leaves and lower 

 part of stem. Certainly it is no form of G. erectum Huds., which 

 has different petals, &c., and grows close by the Eeigate plant. 

 The fruits of "sylvestre" and Mollugo (including erectum) seem 

 almost identical. Coste says of sylvestre, "fruits ..... finement 

 chagrin6s " — of Mollugo, " fruits .... chagrines." — C. E. Salmon. 

 I think this is G. asperum Schreb. (= G. sylvestre Poll.), but I 

 have seen a reduced state of G. erectum Huds. very like this on 

 the downs above Paddlesworth, E. Kent, at 600 ft. — E. S. Mar- 

 shall. 



Centcmrium imlchellum Druce, forma. Berry Head, S. Devon, 

 v.-c. 3, Aug. 9, 1909. A dwarf subcapitate form growing in short 

 turf. C. umhellatum, which grew with it, retained its normal 

 form, and did not approach its variety cajntatum. It seems to be 

 either Erythrcea pulchella Fr. forma littoralis vidgaris Wittr., 

 " sepals, petals, and stamens often tetramerous," or E. pulchella 

 f. contracta Wittr., " internodes scarcely or not developed, little 

 branched." The flowers in these specimens are both tetramerous 

 and pentamerous, the former predominating and not confined to 

 the smaller examples. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. The form this 

 species assumes on the short turf of pastures exposed to sea 

 breezes; very different-looking to the more simple erect form of 

 damp flats not so exposed. — E. F. Linton. 



Verbascum virgatum Stokes. Waste ground, Ashton Gate, 

 Bristol, N. Somerset, v.-c. 6, July 26, 1909. The locality is the 

 site of some abandoned ironworks, where the plant has been 

 known for several years and seems to be increasing. — Ida M. 

 EoPER. This is not V. virgatum but V. Chaixii Vill., a Conti- 

 nental species which has been found as an alien in one or two 

 places in England. A plant recently sent to the B. E. C. by 

 Eev. H. J. Eiddelsdell as a form of V. nigrum turned out to be 

 V. Chaixii, which appears to have been doing duty for V. nigrum 

 in Glamorganshire. It differs from nigrum in having a branched 

 inflorescence, the groups of flowers being less approximate. The 

 lowest leaves are not cordate, but are narrowed into the petiole, 

 the leaf-margin being irregularly sinuate. See B. E. C. Eeports, 

 1908, p. 390, and 1909, p. 466.— A. B. J. 



Euphorbia Cyparissias L. Epsom Downs, Surrey, v.-c. 17, 

 May 16, 1909. Mr. C. E. Britton and I were pleased at finding a 



