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three segregates—a type fulva; a var. b. Hornsuchiana; and a var. c. sterilis. 
Between fulva and Hornsuchiana I think it is useless to try to find any distinction. 
We have the plant in aggregate widely distributed though not abundant, and plants 
from the same locality have been variously named at different times by the 
authorities, with these two names. But last year I found, at two spots in the 
Black Mountain district—one within our area, the other just in Breconshire— 
a plant decidedly and at once distinct from our common one, by its tufted root- 
stock showing abundance of herbage of a much lighter green. The flowering stems 
were correspondingly sparingly developed ; and the fruit, though in August, not 
well formed. But all the characters agreed with the hybrid plant placed by Dr. 
Boswell as var. c. under C. fulva. Its position also where I found it, among both 
fulva and flava, its abundant herbage, and undeveloped fructification, pointed to 
its being a hybrid between these two plants. CC. xanthocarpa, described by Mr. 
Pryor (Journ. of Bot., 1876, p. 365) is considered as a synonym with this hybrid ; 
and with Mr. Pryor’s description our plant agrees in all respects. The rough beak 
of the fruit, and the absence of the conspicuous white membrane on its inner 
edges, so characteristic of ordinary fulva, was even more marked than in specimens 
received from the locality from which Mr. Pryor describes the plant. 
