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Veronica Anagallis L. — This plant is usually perennial or 

 biennial, and as such, with its stem from 1-3 ft. high, is familiar 

 to British botanists ; the annual form is very different, and at first 

 sight looks like a very distiuct species, at least as seen in July of 

 this year in flower and fruit on the dried-up margin of a reservoir 

 near Tring. The stem was slender, simple, 2-4-| inches high ; the 

 leaves oval or obovate and mostly narrowed towards the base ; the 

 flowers rather few and arranged in a lax terminal raceme, or very 

 rarely there was a second axillary raceme ; and the style was about 

 as long as the emarginate capsule. Its synonymy is as follows : — 



Veronica Anagallis v L. S}). PL p. 12 (1753), var. montioides 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. p. 437 (1879). 



V. montioides Boiss. Diagn. PL Or. Nov., ser. 1, no. 7, p. 43 

 (1846). V. pusilla Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. p. 468 (1846). 

 This form has been reported from the Caucasus, from Persia, from 

 Western Tibet, and from Afghanistan ; but I am not aware that 

 it has been noticed and recorded for Britain. — W. P. Hiern. 



Plantago Coronopus var. ceratophyllum. — I enclose herewith 

 a specimen of what appears to me to be Plantago Corojiojms var. 

 ceratophyllum Hoffm. & Link, as described by Mr. E. G. Baker and 

 figured in Journ. Bot. for July last. It is abundant at Blackpool, 

 West Lanes, (v. c. 60), where it grows with a smaller form haviug 

 the leaves appressed to the ground, and a more slender root. Its 

 discovery here appears to considerably extend its range to the north. 

 Mr. Baker has seen the specimen. Last week I found Urtica 

 dioica var. angustifolia Blytt growing plentifully in Ince Blundell 

 Woods, South Lanes, (v.-c. 59). This has not been recorded 

 previously for the vice-county, and is in every respect a similar 

 plant to the one I distributed from Cheshire in 1894, which 

 was passed as correctly named by Mr. A. Bennett [vide Bot. Exch. 

 Club. Report, 1894).— J. A. Wheldon. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, 



The Flora oj Perthshire. By Francis Buchanan W. White, M.D., 

 F.L.S. Edited, with an introduction and life of the author, 

 a list of his scientific publications, and an appendix, by James 

 W. H, Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S. With portrait and map. 

 Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons. 8vo, pp. lix, 407. Price 

 7s. 6d. net. 



In this outcome of Dr. Buchanan White's labours of many 

 years, we have the first county flora for Scotland which is worthy 

 to rank as of equal importance with the best examples for England. 

 Oar local floras are becoming so bulky, owing to the inclusion in 

 them of more or less irrelevant matter, and to an over- elaboration 

 of details, that it is refreshing to come upon one which is confined 

 strictly to its subject. In this respect the Flora of Perthshire ap- 

 proximates to the Flora of Plymouth, which we regard as a model 



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