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the Dowards; and in certain parts of the Woolhope District: but I have yet 
to be convinced that it is ever even fownd on the Sandstone tracts. In its stead 
there occurs a plant with the bracts, hair, and curved spur of hirta, but with the 
stoles of odorata, and with slightly scented flowers, which are almost always, if 
not always, blue. It is to be found in copses, dry or damp, on sandstone, on 
Woolhope limestone, or on the Mountain limestone of the Dowards; and its 
flowering period ranges from February to early in May. The first specimen of 
this I came across was growing in company with a mass of true V. hirta, but sub- 
sequently I have found it in districts where hirta is not known for miles—thus 
precluding the theory of its hybrid origin. Mr. Archer Briggs gave to some of 
my specimens the name of ‘‘undoubted permiata”; Professor Babington was 
puzzled,” but ‘‘inclined to” the same view: I am myself persuaded that some 
of what we have is true permixta (Jord.), but I do not feel sure that we have 
not got more than one plant in this series, Any creeping luxuriant violet of the 
odorata section which cannot be assigned to odorata, deserves attention and obser- 
vation, if possible under cultivation. 
Burdocks. In this troublesome genus I am able, through Mr. J. G. Baker’s 
kindness, to report two additions to our Herefordshire species. The one is an 
intensely cottony-headed plant, which appears to be Professor Babington’s A. 
pubens, and which he (Man., Ed. 7, p. 197) asserts to be synonymous with Lange’s 
intermediwm, though it differs much from specimens received through the Exchange 
Club, and gathered at Copenhagen in company Prof. Lange himself. The other 
is A. nemoroswm, Lej., to which species Mr. Baker doubtfully assigns plants of 
Mr. B. M. Watkins’ and my own, gathered in two separate localities in the Ross 
district. 
There remain to mention two groups of Sedges upon the forms of which in- 
habiting our county information is much wanted. These are the Sedges of the 
fulva and the flava groups. Have we one, or more than one, plant belonging to 
each of these, in our area? In answer to this question, I believe that I can now 
affirm that we have at least two distinguishable plants belonging to each of these 
two groups. To take Carex flava first, I had long thought the variety lepidocarpa 
to be far the most common, if not the sole, representative of C. flava in Hereford- 
shire. But an examination of a number of specimens, chiefly from the south and 
west of the county, has persuaded me that we have the true flava from at least two 
or three localities. The most characteristic are from a small boggy copse at 
Breinton, near Hereford ; but others from the Ffwddog, and from the neighbour- 
hood of Tram Inn, are I think rather this than lepidocarpa. The third segregate 
of this sedge, C. deri, of Ehrhardt, I have never found in Herefordshire, nor 
indeed myself anywhere away from the influence of the sea. Of this group, there- 
fore, C. lepidocarpa remains still (as far as my knowledge goes) for the most 
prevalent ; flava is sparingly but widely found; «deri, Ehr., is a desideratum. 
Series of this plant, especially if exhibiting very small neat fruit, or on the other 
hand, unusually large fruit with hooked beak, would be very valuable, especially 
from the east of the county, from which I have not a single specimen. Upon Carex 
fulva, few words will suffice. Dr. Boswell (English Botany, Ed. iii.) divides it into 
