216 . CORRESPONDENCE. 
pes gon S. Mougeotii (S. uiam var. recurvum, Wils. Bry. Brit.) 
re than S. contortum, and, like S. Mougeotii, has the leaves undulate at the 
Wagt when Pus and also recurved, though to a less extent than in that species. 
Its structure is described in the Bry. Brit. as allied to that of S. contortum, 
but differing in the very minute pores of the leaves, and also in pie = cor- 
tical layer of the stem composed of two or even three rows of cellules, The 
stem is dark in colour. No fruit has yet been found. The station odd 
it occurs here is PES Moss, m five miles from Manchester, on which 
place it grows in considerable abundan 
In 1860 I PRA Bartramia rigida on en cliffs near Criccieth, North | 
Wales, i in a shad , growing in the same tuft with Bartramia pomi- ; 
>t think disi B is the des English station — : 
num fluitans, H: Kneiffi, — 
and H. ee. and barren ones of H. pene H. aduncum, Hedw., 
Sphagnum laricinwn, and S. Mougeotii, to those who wish for them. 
GEORGE E. Hunt. 
The new Purple Trefoil of the Scilly Islands. 3 
Oakfield, Leamington, June 3, 1863. 
first impression on seeing this lovely trefoil in the Scilly Islands was 
that it might be distinct from Trifolium repens, and I dep several specime 
making, at the same time, the following note on the spot :—* Trifolium repens. 
upper put of the petals, and then very beautiful. It requires further exami- 
nation.” There is a marked character in the veins of the leaves, which are 
prominent on Nis under side, those of T. repens being visible only by their 
darker colour by d llight. The flowers become almost black 
when dried. As far as I recollect, the plant occurs in several places in the 
islands; and I have much pleasure in sending you fresh specimens in flower, 
hoping to communicate at a future time additional particulars, and pasate the 
whole question in your hands. FREDERICK TOWNSE 
[ We shall publish a coloured plate of this highly interesting addition to owo 
ora, as soon as the plants kindly transmitted to us, two of which are now — 
growing in our inea shall have produced ripe fruit. Professor Babington - — 
has kindly undertaken to determine the real name and the synonymy of this — | 
novelty. It is closely allied to Trifolium repens, and, as Mr. — nd eri 
observes, a very lovely plant. In De Candolle's * Prodromus; ii. p. 199, a 
riety of T. repens, termed rubescens (floribus parpuraseentibus, caulibus pe 
rosis), and growing near Geneva, is mentioned ; but we do not find it taken 
up by any subsequent author. This may be our new plant, judging from the 
brief description. But a diagnosis eae more closely agreeing with it is found 
sum, Schleich. (pallescens, Sturm). ‘The branches of that plant, however, are 
