228 Smoof/i-stetinited Form of Foxglove 



form will remain constant under different conditions, a point which I 

 hope now to be able to test on the material received fi'om Professor 

 Coutinho. Hybridisation as an explanation seems improbable since 

 I). Amandiana Samp., the only other native form with a glabrous habit, 

 is not mentioned by Sampaio as an inhabitant of this region but as 

 occurring in ariil and stony places along a ceitain part of the course of 

 the Douro, and the Tua and elsewhere. 



