THIRSK BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 119 
Fyrola ynhior, L. Sent by Mr. J. E. Whalley, from a fir wood on 
Chat Moss, Lancashire. It is not given for the Mersey province in 
SuppL Cybele. 
Verbascum nigro-pulverulentum^ Smith, Mr, Whittaker sends, from 
Smith's original station of KellesdoUj Norfolk, examples of this pkat, 
gathered by the Rev. Kirby Trimmer. The following description is 
made partly from these, and one or two points are taken from the 
English Flora. Stem about two feet high, panicled above with erccto- 
patent branches, bluntly angular, thinly cottony throughout, the ground- 
work shiaing purplish-brow^n. Leaves soft in texture, blunt at the 
point, bluntly and irregularly crenate, the upper surface dull-grey with 
a thin covering of down, the lower surface rather thickly covered with 
down and the veins conspicuous ; the lower leaves large stalked, not 
more than broadly ovate, the upper ones cordate, sessile or even a little 
clasping. Spike interruptedly panicled below, long, loose, both pedicel 
and calyx densely cottony. Corolla bright yellow, measuring nearly 
half an inch across when fully expanded • stamens densely hairy, with 
violet-coloured hairs, shorter than the slightly-hairy, club-shaped stigma. 
Pedicel at least twice as long as the calyx. Most like V.floccoauWy 
from which it differs by its less woolly stems, pedicels, and calyces, 
less woolly and cvenate leaves, longer pedicels, and by the colour of 
the hairs of the stamens, which are white in V,Jloccomm. There 
seems to be no question that our plant is identical with one that is 
well known and widely diffused upon the Continent, the V, Sclioitianum 
of Schrader, the V, fiigro-floccosmn of Koch, the F, mixtum of Eauiond 
ia De Candolle's ' Flore Fran^aise,' The Norfolk specimens agree 
well with the plant of Wirtgen's Fasciculus, No. 43. It is probable 
that the V. thapso^nigrnm of Withering is V, coUinum, Schrader, V. semi- 
niffrirm, Fries, in part, and the F. nigro-li/cJinUis of Babington, the 
V. Schiedlanum of Koch, — all three being hybiids between F. nigrum 
and the other species. 
Oentiana Gerynanica, Willd. Sent by Mr. A. Gr. More, from the 
neighbourhood of Tring, both Bucks and Herts, The result of the ex- 
amination of a considerable series' of specimens from different parts of 
the Continent, is a conviction that the presence of a stalk to the capsule, 
which has been regarded as a mark by which this may be distinguished 
from (?. Amarella, is valueless as a diagnostic character. It is some- 
times present in the small-flowered G. Amarella^ and in the large- 
