ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH FLORA. "n 
as a pale variety of L. vulgaris, or hybrid between that spe- 
cies and L. repens. 
In the beginning of August, 1840, I again found an un- 
known Linaria, at Shirley, a few miles from Southampton, 
where it also was growing with L. repens and L. vulgaris. 
This circumstance brought to recollection the Penryn Linaria; 
but whilst I had conjectured that one to be nearer L. vulgaris, 
the Shirley specimens seemed to shade off by gradual transi- 
tions into L. repens. As far as I can now remember, the 
plant was plentiful in the Penryn locality, strong and healthy 
in growth : but at Shirley I saw only one patch of it, growing 
on a very dry bank, and apparently almost parched up; the 
lower leaves had withered away, many of the flower-buds 
had shrivelled without expanding, and the fruit was imper- 
fect. A few of the best bits were gathered, kept two days in 
water to bring out the buds which still lived, and afterwards 
dried in the usual way; but thus unavoidably making very 
poor specimens in the herbarium, and possibly inducing some 
of the differences presently to be mentioned between these 
and the Cornish specimens. 
Other calls on my attention having prevented the examina- 
tion of plants collected in 1840, until the latter part of 1841, i 
made no progress towards ascertaining the name of this 
Linaria ; and, indeed, it was forgotten until commencing to 
label the plants collected about Shirley the preceding year. 
The specimens were then marked dubiously, as a hybrid 
variety of L. repens. By a somewhat curious coincidence, 
the very day that I carried to London a small packet of 
plants for a botanical friend, including fragments both of the 
Penryn and the Shirley Linaria, I was shown a much more 
Perfect specimen of the same plant, which had been then very 
lately left at the rooms of the Linnean Society, by the Rev. 
T. Hincks, who (if I recollect rightly.) had gathered it by 
the river Bandon, in the county of Cork, and had communi- 
cated it to the Linnean Society, as a supposed hybrid be- 
tween the two species, associated with which I had twice 
found the same plant. Mr. George Don at once suggested 
