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north side of the stream, just above the bridge which is nearest to the 
Spital of Glen Shee. It evidently occupies, like F. sabulosa and F. 
Curtisii, an intermediate position between V. tricolor and F. lutea, 
Jordan compares it to V. Vivariensis, which is also a montane plant.* 
Arenaria serpyllifolia, var. Lloydii.—Of the Isle of Wight plant 
nentioned in our Report of last year, Mr. Watson sends a supply of 
garden-grown specimens. 
Geranium Lancastriense.— Mr. Watson sends for each of the mem- 
bers a specimen of this, fifty plants of which were all raised true from 
seed in his garden in 1861-62. — 
Lathyrus hirsutus.—Mr. W. Bennett, of Brcekham, sends a garden- 
grown specimen of this very local species, from a root originally pro- 
cured in the neighbourhood of Croydon. Tt is given as a doubtful in- 
habitant of Surrey in the Supplement to the * Cybele.’ 
Rubus Bloxamianus, Coleman, in White's Hist. of Leicestershire.— 
The Rev. W. H. Purchas sends a bramble under this name, respecting 
whieh he writes, —“ It is a plant which the Rev. W. H. Coleman has 
been accustomed to distinguish under the above name, and which he 
has frequently pointed out to me in this immediate neighbourhood 
(Calke, Derbyshire) aud in the adjoining parts of Leicestershire. The 
points in which it differs from R. Zysíriz are the peculiar clothing of 
the stem, the priekles passing abruptly into a dense even coating of 
setze; the leaves, which are broader and less acuminate than in R. 
Hystrix, and more coriaceous in texture, convex above with impressed 
veins ; the panicle, which is more compact ; and the sepals, which are 
almost without the flattened and dilated point. Thus, on the whole, 
the differences are those which result from greater compactness of 
growth, and this habit is favoured by the plant preferring more exposed 
Places of growth than R. Hystrix usually does.” On this Mr. Cole- 
man observes, “The real affinity of R. Bloramianus is, however, with . 
R. Radula, from which it differs in its prickles not passing gradually 
into sete, and in the absence of the white under side of the leaves. 
If, as I sometimes suspect, it is a mere though well-marked variety, it 
must be called R. Radula, var. Bloxamianus." 
Galium erectum.—Mr. Kirk sends specimens from Leek Wootton, in 
Warwickshire. Tt is given as a doubtfal inhabitant of the Mid-Severn 
subprovince in Cyb. Suppl. 
* Conf. ‘Journal of Botany,’ pp. 11, 12. 
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