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those years an almost complete set has been presented to Kew, 
all labelled with Forrest’s numbers and determined at the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. Previous collections by Forrest 
are already well represented in the Herbarium and the present 
consignment which keeps up to the former standard in excellent 
selection and preservation will form a valuable addition to our 
collections from these mountains. 
Erica vagans, L., var. kevernensis, Z'urrill—Hrica vagans 
is well known as one of the characteristic ‘‘ Lusitanian ’’ plants 
of the British flora, and it is therefore of additional interest to 
record the occurrence of an aberrant plant which differs markedly 
from the common type. 
This new plant was discovered and introduced into culti- 
vation by Mr. P. D. Williams, of Lanarth, and he has kindly 
furnished the following particulars :—‘‘ When partridge shooting 
at Trelanvean farm, St. Keverne, on the north-west corner of a 
rough moor (2248, Ordnance Survey 1907), 1 noticed a small 
plant of this remarkable form of Erica vagans. Next day I took 
cuttings (which fortunately grew) and also layered the plant. 
The following year the original plant and the layers were trodden 
into the ground by cattle and destroyed. I have a group of it 
in my garden and find that in normal years it never seeds, but 
that it sometimes sports. In 1921 it seeded. It is remarkable 
that on the same day I found the only recorded plant of a natural 
hybrid of Erica vagans and #. tetralix (x #. Williamsit, Druce). 
This plant was about 3 of a mile to the west on plot 2788, 
Ordnance Survey 1907.” Plants at Kew received from Mr. 
Williams have flourished and have been propagated so that they 
now occupy an entire bed between the T-range and the Succulent 
House, near beds of typical Erica vagans and x Erica Williamsia 
These plants have been kept under observation for about a year 
and the flower and fruit characters studied in living specimens. 
The new plant differs from the usual form of the species 
in the shape and colour of its corollas, characters which are 
