144 THE THIRSK BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 
not seen British specimens of this latter, but have distributed to the 
members several Belgian ones which Professor Crépin sent us, and itis. 
very likely to be met with. Mr. A. G. More has sent this year Hamp- - 
shire examples of C. sativa, and to this, I believe, must be aient 
the British specimens distributed through the Club. 
Barbarea intermedia.—\ gathered this species in tolerable dedito 
last summer, in a cultivated field at the foot of a hill called Easterside,. 
at the southern end of a dale called Bilsdale, which runs for thirteen 
miles, from north to south, through the Oolitic hills. of North-east- 
Yorkshire. It is new to the county, and with us, as regards eategory 
of citizenship, is clearly either a Colonist or am Alien, not a Native in 
the sense in which the term is employed in the.‘ Cybele. == 
Viola lepida, Jordan.—1 gathered, in July, 1860, near the Spital of 
Glen Shee in Perthshire, a Pansy with the habit of growth of 7. trico- 
lor, but yet apparently with a perennial root, and growing in a station 
suitable for P. lutea, a meadow near the banks of a stream. ‘The stem - 
is nearly a foot in height, branching at the crown. of the root, and as - 
succulent and robust as in ordinary X. tricolor. . The lower leaves are 
broadly ovate ; the upper ones lanceolate ; the lateral lobes of the:sti-. 
pules linear, erecto-patent, or slightly curved; the terminal lobe much 
larger than the others, somewhat leaf-like, entire. or very slightly 
oothed. The lower peduncles are three times as long as the leaves; 
the sepals narrowed gradually, and conspicuously shorter. than the 
petals ; the upper petals broadly obovate in shape, a rich deep purplish- 
violet in colour, three-eighths of an inch broad, and more than half an 
inch deep from the apex to the throat ; the middle pair somewhat nar- 
rower and paler ; the lowest one considerably broader than the distance 
from its outer edge to its throat, bright-yellow within, with radiating 
lines the same colour as its outer portion; spur violet-coloured, blunt, 
exceeding the calycine appendages. This plant was submitted to Pro- 
fessor Boreau, and marked by him * Videtur 7. lepida, Jordan.” 
This is a plant described in Jordan's * Pugillus and given there, with 
a mark of doubt, as a plant of Belgium. My plant agrees very well 
with the description, unless it be in the spur, which is stated to be 
* eximie patenti-deflexo." I wish any one who may have the oppor- 
tunity would search this out and investigate it further. I brought home 
seeds and sowed them, but they did not come up next spring, probably 
because they were not ripe enough when gathered. It grows on the 
