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ticularly in the upper half, are densely clothed with short spreading hairs ; the 
leaves have shorter stalks, with a greater tendency to suppress the two lateral 
leaflets, the majority of the leaves, in fact, being unifoliate ; the pods are less 
numerous, have their dorsal and ventral sutures covered with long silky hairs, 
and are black rather than brown, shorter, and have fewer seeds. The season 
was too far advanced for any flowers to be met with, either on Vellan Head or 
in the small valley running down from Jollytown — the only other locality in 
Cornwall where the plant was observed. IT. St achy s Betonica, Bentham, var. 
Of this plant three well-marked forms have been described : a, Betonica hirta, 
Reich. ; h, B. serotina, Host; and c, B. sticta, Ait. ; and in many respects 
the form about to be described agrees with the first of these forms. In Prof. 
Babington's Manual (ed. v., p. 261) it is stated that "the English plant has 
the round crenate, not emarginate, lower lip of B. hirta (R.) ;" but Boreau is 
of opinion that, while the three forms just named preserve their remarkable 
differences of aspect when cultivated together, the distinctive characters fur- 
nished by the divisions of the corolla are but slightly constant. ( c Flore du 
Centre de la France,' etc., ed. hi., vol. ii. p. 530.) The Cornish plant may be 
described as follows : — Stems decumbent, numerous, radiating from the root- 
stock, square above, rounded below, clothed with many short hairs, which are 
closely appressed in the upper part and pointing downwards, those in the 
lower part more spreading, but still much reflexed j spikes slightly inclined, 
just raised above the ground, compressed-globose, the verticils many-flowered, 
never distant ; calyx covered with straight hairs, the sepals ending in stiff 
points ; corolla three times longer than the calyx, the exterior covered with 
scattered shaggy hairs, which are long and silky at the base of the tube, but 
becoming shorter and more scattered as they approach the lip ; opening of the 
mouth very wide, lower lip crenate, wavy ; lower leaves on long stalks, cordate 
at the base, oblong, regularly crenate, glandular on the under surface, with 
short scattered hairs, upper leaves lanceolate on short stalks. Specimens of 
B. hirta, Reich., have not come under my notice, nor have I been able to meet 
with Reichenbach's diagnosis ; but this form seems to agree very nearly with 
Boreau's description. Mr. Bentham, in his ■ Labiatarum Genera et Species/ 
p. 532, gives, amongst the synonyms of his Stachys Betonica, " Betonica hirta, 
Leyss., Reichb. Icon. Bot. Eur. 8, p. 4, t. 711," which may be identical with 
B. hirta, Reich. ; but the only reference to it which I have met with is in 
Dr. Garke's ■ Flora von Nord- und Mittel-Deutschland,' where it is shortly.de- 
scribed as M Yar. a, hirta, Leyss. — Stem with short hairs, calyx rou^h-haired " 
(ed. vi., p. 318). The Cornish form is very plentiful on the cliffs of "Killas" 
rock, lying between Caerthilian and the Lizard Lights, growing with Genista 
tinctoria, L., var. humifusa, Dicks, which it much resembles in habit : it also 
occurs in other parts of south-western Cornwall, as at Cuddan Point, and the 
Mount's Bay district generally. Mr. Bailey gave a list of the more important 
plants with which he had met. This list contains two species not included in 
sub-province 1 of the first supplementary part to the ( Cybele Britannica,' viz. 
Sinapis alba, L., and Lepigonum rupicola, Bab. 
Errata.— Page 7, line 9, delete " without locality %* ditto, line 10, delete 
" probably ;" ditto, line 28, for « C. sphcerica," read " C. spharicus;" line 33, 
for " C. primaeva," ead " C. primavus" 
