114 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Szss. uxr. 
given is Pettycur in Fife. A specimen from that locality is 
in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
with Don’s name attached. 
In June of this year the plant appeared in considerable 
quantity in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, in a locality 
where there is no reason to suppose that it is truly native. 
The localities given for England—old walls, waste places, 
dry fields—would suggest that there also the plant is usually 
a casual. 
Of the three forms of the species given in Sowerby, Don’s 
specimen seems to be var. a, genuina ; the recent specimens 
agree with var. 8, laxa, with regard to the habit of the 
plants, length of capsule, and number of stamens. The 
glandular hairs usually present on the calyx are, however, 
absent. 
On Drosera Banks, R.Br. By Dr. Morrison. 
When examining the Australian species of Drosera in the 
Melbourne Herbarium a short time ago, I found a specimen 
of unusual interest labelled thus, in the handwriting of the 
late Baron von Mueller:—“ Drosera Banksu, R.Br., Port 
Darwin, 1890. Maurice Holze.” As the only specimen of 
this species hitherto recorded is that originally collected 
during Cook’s voyage by Banks, at the mouth of the 
Endeavour River, Northern Queensland, and now preserved 
in the herbarium of the British Museum, an account of 
the Port Darwin specimen should be of interest to botanists, 
especially as the plants are evidently in more perfect con- 
dition than the type specimen. Drosera Banksw was first 
described in 1824 in De Candolle’s “ Prodromus,”! with R. 
Brown as the author of the name. In 1848 Planchon? 
published a full description of the plant from the type 
specimen, as also did Bentham? subsequently; and Bailey,* 
in his “ Queensland Flora,” has evidently had to rely on the 
published descriptions without having other specimens to 
1 De Candolle, ‘‘ Prodromus,” i. p. 319 (1824), 
2 “* Ann, Sci. Nat.,” ser. 3, ix. 291 (1848). 
2 «F). Austral.,” ii. 469 (1864). 
+ «The Queensland Flora,” part ii., p. 550 (1900). 
