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through the Botanical Exchange Cluh for that year. One of the 

 critics considered it to be only a starved state. The condition of 

 the plant did not suggest starvation, but it was on the shingle, in 

 full sun and partial wind exposure, factors which would naturally 

 make it more compact. I sowed seeds in garden loam, which 

 germinated last year, and have this year flowered. The plants 

 retain their small size, with the giaucescent leaves, of a thicker 

 texture than the type, and more roundly elliptic, shape unaltered ; 

 the flowers, too, are in very short racemes and of a darker colour 

 than those of the type. I am surprised to see that the plant so 

 strongly reproduces its distinguishing characters. The cliff plants 

 from Forfar, &c., belong to the type. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Euphorbia Lathyrus L. — This was first recorded as a native 

 plant by Dr. Beeke in the Botanists' Guide (1805), from Afton in 

 Berkshire. Subsequently Irvine found it in Northamptonshire 

 [London Flora, 1838), " far from dwellings and cultivated ground," 

 and I have seen it almost certainly native in that county in 

 Wallesley Wood. It has also strong claims to be considered 

 native in Somerset and Hereford. To those counties may be 

 added Huntingdonshire, where it is spread over a wide area in 

 very large quantities in the woodland area known as Monk's 

 Wood. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Montia verna Necker. — Early in May this year I gathered 

 this plant at Burton Point, in the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire. It 

 was growing on the sandstone close to the shore, associated with 

 Cerastium tetrandrum Curt., and indicates a rather unexpected and 

 interesting northern extension in the distribution of this species, 

 which has, I believe, hitherto only been recorded for the southern 

 counties of England. Mr. Druce, to whom I submitted speci- 

 mens, agreed with me that the seeds were those of typical verna. — 

 Wm. Hodge. 



^CIDIUM LEUCOSPERMUM DC. IN NoRTH WaLES. — As Dr. 



Plowright [British Uredinece, p. 270) remarks that this species is 

 rare in Britain, I think it may be of interest to place on record its 

 occurrence on leaves of Anemone nemorosa at the end of April in 

 Nant-y-belan, at the extreme south-east corner of Denbighshire. 

 I was unable to find among the same plants any trace of Puccinia 

 fusca, with which the ^cidium in question has been connected 

 by Continental authors, but there was growing among the Anemone 

 abundance of Adoxa Moschatellina, strongly attacked by the Puc- 

 cinia specially attached to that species. — John W. Ellis. 



Plantago lanceolata L. var. sph^rostachya. — A plant of 

 this, which I brought back from Jersey last year, retained its 

 short spike during the year, but has this year developed spikes 

 indistinguishable fi'om the type, as Dillenius says it did in the 

 Eltham Garden. (See Dill. Herb. 97).— G. Claridge Druce. 



Tolypella intricata Leonh. — This erratic species has once 

 more reappeared in the ditches at Marston, Oxon. It was first 



