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large number of critical species, upon which the remarks of the various 

 specialists are most helpful to all studying the British flora. There is 

 also a figure oi Fumaria major, Badarro, reproduced from the drawings 

 made by Mr. E. W. Hunnybun for The Caf/ihridge British Flora. 



The Report contains a photograph of the late Rev. Augustin 

 Lea, and a sketch of his life by the Rev. E. F. Linton. Mr. Lea had 

 been for many years a referee of the Club and its largest contributor. 



We have selected and reproduce here some of the more valuable 

 notes : — 



"7^ major, Badarro. The plant from Gilly Tresamble, Perran-ar- 

 worthal, which I distributed in 1904 (see Report, 1904-5, p. 7), 

 has been identified by Professors Schinz, Ascherson, and Graebner, 

 as well as by Dr. Fedde of Berlin, who is working out the genus 

 Fumaria for Engler's ' Pflanzenreich,' as F. mafor, Badarro. Every 

 year since its discovery, on Oct. 8, 1904, I have seen thousands of 

 plants of it among potato, turnip, mangel and cabbage crops in the 

 parishes of Perran-ar-worthal and Gwennap. Rouy et Foucaud 

 (' Flore de France,' vol. i. p. 176) place this plant with F. spectabilis, 

 Bischoff, under F. agraria. Lag., and they describe it as follows : — 

 ' Bractees, lanceolees, egalant ou depassant les pedicelles ; sepales 

 ovales, courts, egalant environ le quart de la longueur de la corolle, et 

 a peine plus etroits qu'elle, pfofondement dentes, a nervure mediane, 

 peu ou point carenee ; silicule globuleuse a mucron cylindrace, 

 mince ; feuilles courtes, a lobes courts, peu ecartes.' None of the 

 hundreds of Cornish specimens which I have examined have had 

 the bracts more than one-half as long as the fruiting pedicel, and 

 the small oval sepals are only rarely slightly dentate at the base. 

 From all other species of Fumaria occurring in Britain F. major may 

 be distinguished by its long, ultimately lax raceme of 20-25 large 

 rosy-pink flowers, which often are much recurved. On the Continent 

 it is said to flower from April to June ; in Cornwall its flowering 

 season extends from the early part of September to late October. — 



F. Hamilton Davey. 



'''■ Anthyllis Vubieraria, L., var. coccinea, L. Dry banks, Polzeath, 

 E. Cornwall, v.c. 2, August 19 10. — H. E. Fox. A. Vubieraria, L., var. 

 coccinea, L., has flowers red, concolorous. Our plant named A. Dillenii, 

 Schultes, is different ; it has cream-coloured flowers, tipped with red. 

 I have seen var. coccinea from S. Devon, Cornwall, and (strange to 

 say) Ben Lawers, Perthshire, whence Mr. C. P. Hurst sent me fresh 

 specimens a few years ago. A Diilenii, which is always a small 

 plant — I have gathered var. coccinea nearly a foot high, with larger 

 heads — seems to be strictly littoral, ranging from E. Sussex ! to W. 

 Sutherland !— E. S. M. 



" Vicia gracilis, Lois. Field of wheat, Coton, Cambs., v.c. 29, 

 August 23, 1910. — A. J. Crosfield. Yes, good gracilis, coming 

 under the a leiocarpa, Gren. and Godr., as it has glabrous pods. I 

 do not possess any examples of the hairy-podded form (/? eriocarpa, 



G. & G.), and do not know if it occurs in Britain. As mentioned 

 in 'Journ. Bot ,' 1908, p. 264, V, gracilis may always be separated 



