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following our usual precedent, we proceed to quote. We note 

 a tendency to reduce certain plants which have long occupied the 

 position of varieties to the status of forms ; this, w^e think, is a step 

 in the right direction, based as it is upon observation. The plant 

 identified by Mr. "Wilmott as Banunculus Xatardi Lapeyr., from 

 a mill-yard at Portishead, " doubtless an alien," seems hardly to 

 deserve the elaborate note devoted to it : there is, however, a 

 gratifying absence of casuals, which sometimes receive an atten- 

 tion out of proportion to their importance. 



Banunculus [peltatus Schrank, forma] . Pond, Barrow Hill, 

 N. Somerset, v.c. 6, May 30th, 1914. A small form w^ith short 

 peduncles and very hairy fruit. See Fl. Prist. (1912), p. 115. — 

 Ida M. Eoper. . . . The cutting of the floating leaves, the 

 phort pedicels, and the very hairy fruits take this plant away from 

 E. aquatilis L. excl. varieties emend. Godron ■= B. heterophylhcs 

 Wiggers non Babington = B. diversifolms Gilibert fide Pouy & 

 Foucaud = B. ijeltatus Schrank (c/. Moss in Journ. Bot., 

 pp. 118-119, 1914), and take it towards B. trichophyllics Chaix in 

 Villars emend. Moss loc. cit. If the plant is not a hybrid of 

 B. aquatilis and B. tricJiophyllus (as above defined), I should put the 

 specimen under the latter species. However, the flowers are larger 

 than the common form of B. trichopliyllus of the fens of eastern 

 England, where, too, this species rarely develops floating leaves. 

 I think the plant would be referred to B. radians Eevel by some 

 botanist?, though personally I should question this identification. 

 It also agrees with some plants which Babington referred to his 

 own i?. heterophylkis ; but Babington's specimens of his B. hetero- 

 jjhyllus are so varied that I seriously doubt the wisdom of those 

 British botanists who retain Babington's name B. heterojjJiyllus. 

 Syme (Eng. Bot. ed. iii.) referred B. aquatilis and B. trichophyllus 

 to the same aggregate species ; and doubtless he had such inter- 

 mediate plants as the present in mind when he did so. Such 

 intermediate plants are not very rare ; and if they are not hybrids 

 Syme's view is a very reasonable one. — C. E. Moss. 



Papaver Bhceas L., var. Pryorii Druce. Eiddy Lane, Hitchin, 

 Herts., v.c. 20, June 4th, 1914. Is this more than 2l fonna? In 

 1914 I examined considerable areas of P. Bhceas, and in most of 

 them some plants w^ere to be found of this character with coloured 

 hairs, sometimes brown rather than red, but different plants 

 showed gradations between the uncoloured hairs and the most 

 extreme forms of crimson.— J. E. Little. Corn poppies with 

 crimson hairs to their peduncles must undoubtedly be assigned to 

 var. Pryorii Druce. Tliose with coloured hairs of other tints have 

 not, I believe, received distinctive names. Unfortunately, these 

 colour distinctions are not stable in the herbarium, so it is to be 

 feared that after a time all dried specimens of such varieties must 

 come down to plain P. Bhceas. — J. W. White. 



Badicula Nasturtium-aquaticum Eendle & Britten, var. 7nicro- 

 lihylla Eendle & Britten. Boggy ground, Corfe Castle, Dorset, 

 v.c. 9, June 5th, 1914. — Ida M. Eoper. I believe so, but it is not 

 (as we have it in Britain) a variety I have much faith in ! — C. E. 



