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Miller, the author of the species, expressly states that it " grows 

 naturally in the woods in many parts of England." British botanists 

 have generally considered Tilia cordata Miller as synonymous with 

 T. ulmifolia Scopoli { = T. parvifolia Ehrh.), the reason for this 

 being no doubt because Miller quotes as a synonym Tilia fcemina 

 folio minore Bauhin, Pinax, p. 426. Miller's description is unfor- 

 tunately very brief, but there can be no doubt from his type-specimen 

 in the Banksian Herbarium that his plant is synonymous with T. 

 platyphyllos Scopoli, Fl. Cam. ed. 2. i. 373 (1772), sensa lato. 

 Miller's diagnosis runs as follows : " Tilia (cordata) foliis cordatis 

 acuminatis, fnictihus quinquce locidarihus tomentosis " ; and the woolly 

 fruits, as he translates it, characterize better T, ylatijphyllos than 

 T. idmlfolia. In Miller's type the leaves are asymmetrically sub- 

 orbicular cordate, serrate, acuminate, pubescent below ; petioles 

 pubescent ; cymes 3-4-flowered ; fruits elliptical or subelliptical, 

 with a thick pericarp, tomentose, rather large. Dr. Simonkai, /. c, 

 retains T. platyphyllos Scop, and T. grandifolia Ehrh. as distinct 

 species, the former inhabiting Central and Southern Europe, and 

 only the latter reaching Britain ; but this view has not been 

 adopted by the authors of several of the more recent critical floras 

 (Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterrelch, p. 634 ; Rouy and Foucaud, Fl. de 

 France, iv. p. 21) ; and T. grandifolia seems better placed as a variety 

 only of T. platyphyllos. T. cordata Maxim, non Miller — a very 

 distinct species, which has been carefully described by Dr. Simonkai 

 I. c. — is thus unprovided with a name ; it may be called T. Maxi- 

 Mowiczii. — E. G. Baker. 



A Perthshire Note. — In the recently published Flora of Perth- 

 shire I read with some astonishment that I have observed a number 

 of plants at " Kilmadeck." As a matter of fact, I never got one of 

 the plants in question there, but I did get all of them in the parish 

 of that name. I think it is to be regretted that Dr. White and his 

 editor should have known so little of their ground as to confound 

 an old church and its precincts with a parish which covers sixty- 

 four square miles. In every instance the entry ought to read 

 "parish of Kilmadeck." I was asked to furnish Dr. White with a 

 complete flora of the parish ; I did my best to do so, but Kilmadeck 

 as a " station " was never referred to. — A. Craig Christie. 



Bromus interruptus. — I found this plant in an arable field near 

 Uxbridge, Middlesex ; and also with B. secalinus and B. hordeaceus 

 in a field with sainfoin between Denham and Denham Marsh ; and 

 in the greatest abundance in a sainfoin field near Princes Risborough, 

 Bucks, when I gathered over a hundred specimens in the area of a 

 few yards. In neither instance did it show any gradation towards 

 B. hordeaceus. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Ophrys apifera X aranifera in West Kent. — Mr. G. L. Bruce 

 has kindly sent me fresh specimens of a plant lately found in some 

 quantity near Otford by the Toynbee Hall Natural History Society, 

 growing with abundance of 0. apifera. In habit these approach 

 0. aranifera, the floral characters being very much what one would 

 expect from a blending of the two species. The lip has a long. 



