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above so far as the Jersey plant is concerned. — G. Claridge 

 Deuce. 



Orobanche reticulata Wallroth var. procera (Koch) Druce. 

 —In Prod. Fl. Brit. i. 338 (Oct. 1909), Mr. F. N. WilHams de- 

 scribes this plant, and adds, " not hitherto recorded in Britain," 

 but he has overlooked the fact that I exhibited it at the Linnean 

 Society in the autumn of 1908, and published an account of its 

 discovery by Mr. N. E. Craven in this Journal for March, 1909, 

 p. 110, as well as in the Beiwrt of the Botanical Exchange Club 

 for 1908 {-p-p. 331-7), where it is fully described under the above 

 name. Mr. Craven, in answer to a letter which I wrote (Pharm. 

 Journ. 1908, July 18), said he had found in 1907 an Orobanche 

 which he believed was parasitic on Girsmm erio2)horum, and which, 

 although near 0. minor, did not agree with the description in 

 Babington's Manual. On July 31 he sent me two specimens, 

 which on examination I identified as 0. procera Koch. After- 

 wards I sent them to Dr. Giinther Beck, who placed them 

 under 0. reticulata Wallr. as forma p-ocera (Koch). In 1909 I 

 visited the locality with Mr. A. H. Evans, and found that the 

 plant was parasitic on the Cirsium growing on a grassy slope 

 with bushes, on the Permian limestone which overlies the Mill- 

 stone grit, at an altitude of about 300 ft. My object in writing 

 this note is chiefly to direct attention to another possible habitat, 

 that of Sowerby, Yorkshire. Recently, thanks to Mr. F. J. Han- 

 bury's kindness, I had an opportunity of examining some plants 

 in the Boswell Syme herbarium now in his possession, when I 

 noticed a specimen from that place gathered as 0. elatior by Mr. 

 J. Gilbert Baker as long ago as 1851, which I believe is the same 

 plant. All our Broom-rapes parasitic on thistles deserve careful 

 examination. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Carex aquatilis Wahl. — I read with much pleasure Mr. 

 Marshall's article on Dalmally Plants, and should like to ask him 

 to reconsider his remarks on Carex aquatilis (p. 196). I do not 

 know a single station for this in Perthshire above 1000 ft. I am 

 aware of the record given in the Perthshire Flora, but I have 

 never admitted that the plant from the marsh between Ben 

 Lawers and Meall Garbh was a form of C. aquatilis, although Mr. 

 Bennett regarded it as such. As to the form referred to by Mr. 

 Marshall, found between Ben More and Am Binnein, there are 

 three distinct forms found in this marsh. On the north-east side, 

 where the roots reach the gravel, there is a low-growing form 

 which is often named C. rigida x Goodenotvii; further in, on 

 occasionally submerged situations, it takes another form which 

 approaches C. rigida var. limula ; and, again, in the deep, con- 

 stantly submerged parts, we find a third form, and this is the only 

 one which resembles C. aquatilis. All these I believe to be 

 merely states of C. rigida, for the following reasons : — No other 

 Carex on our hills has such dark-coloured stolons and leafless 

 sheaths, such dark glaucous leaves, or so acute triquetrous stems. 

 I admit that in the last form the stems are nearly trigonous, but 



