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from any forms o{ tetrasperina by the hihim and funiculus characters, 

 and I noticed last year, when gathering both near Billingshurst, 

 Sussex, that in the former the standard and wings are clear lilac in 

 colour, not striate or very faintly so, whilst in tetrasperma both are 

 strongly veined with purple. I noted, too, that the upper calyx-teeth 

 q[ gracilis are lanceolate and those of tetrasperma triangular-acute. 

 — C. E. S. 



" Asperula taiirifia, L. Wood near Abercorn, Linlithgowsh., v.c. 

 84, May 28, 1 9 10. This has been well established here for many 

 years. — M'T. Cowan, jun. Correct. — S. T. D. Add the county to 

 the labels. Not on record, so far as I know, for Linlithgow. — A. B. 



" Taraxacum ? Loose sand dunes, Hunstanton, W. Norfolk, 



v.c. 28, June 6, 1910. This does not appear to agree with the 

 description of any of our recognised dandelions. — C. E. Moss. 

 T. eryihrospermum Andrz. The same form as occurs on the 

 Haddingtonshire coast, with very pale achenes — M'T. C. This has 

 the finely cut foliage of T. eryihrospermum Andrz., but the achenes 

 are paler in colour than usual. — A. B. J. Nearest to var. Icevigatum of 

 our forms. — A. 'B. Handel-Mazzetti, in his Monograph of Taraxacum^ 

 has changed the names — I think wrongly. Dr. Moss's plant clearly 

 comes under what we call T. erythrospermum^ Andrz., DC. The 

 fruit is /rt'/^ pinkish brown, not brick-red. Mr. W. H. Beeby informed 

 me that we had probably one or two subspecies of that in Britain, 

 besides the type. — E. S. M. 



" Gentiana pnvcox, Towns. Chalk Downs, Freshwater, Isle of 

 Wight, v.c. 10, June 1910. — H. E. Fox. This is G. lingulata^ C A. 

 Agardh, var. prcecox, ' Towns.,' Murbeck. I studied it carefully in 

 Wiltshire, where it is usually associated with G. Amareila, L., and 

 came to the decided conclusion that they were specifically distinct. 

 Probably all the alleged south-country inland stations given for 

 G. campesiris, L., belong to this plant, which usually sheds its seeds 

 before G. Amarella is in flower. — E. S. M. 



" Verofiica arvensis, L., var. Cavenham Heath, W. Suffolk, v.c. 

 26, May 16, 1910. I find this variety, or perhaps form, is frequently 

 gathered in mistake for V. verna. — C. E. Moss. Apparently this is 

 the (i glandulosa, Legr., in ' Bull. Soc. bot. France,' 30, p. 70. Rouy 

 (' Fl. de France,' vol. xi. p. 50) says of it : ' Plante tres velue, glandu- 

 leuse.' I have gathered it in a more extreme form on the sandhills 

 between Deal and Sandwich, E. Kent ; and it is probably not 

 uncommon. — E. S. I\L 



"J/, rubra, Sm. f. Old quarry near Ross, Herefordsh., v.c. 36, 

 Sept. 29, 1910. — A. Ley. This is the plant recognised by INIalinvaud 

 as M. rubra, Sm., and gathered by him as a subspontaneous weed in 

 the neighbourhood of houses in France. It should be noted that 

 M. rubra, Huds., is probably quite a different thing, which he 

 describes ('Flora Anglica,' 1798, pp. 252-3) as ' floribus verticillatis ; 

 caulibus diffusis ; foliis subsessilibus, ovatolanceolatis, serratis, acutis, 

 subnudis ' ; while his M. sativa is credited with ' floribus verticillatis ; 

 caulibus erectis ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, serratis, acutis, villosis.' 



