76 THIRSK BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 
Plymouth, some in Devonshire, and others across the Cornish : 
boundary. A curious variety from near Bickleigh has globose fruit 
and naked peduncles. 
Berberis = 
writes—** It i 
indigenous. 
Mr. Briggs sends a specimen, with which he 
rom a Cornish station where I think it likely to be 
tt grows in two or three spots among bushes that fringe 
a low cliff or bank above St. John’s Lake, an inlet from Hamoaze, and 
so connected with the sea." 
Hybrids between Galium Mollugo and verum. 
Mr. Briggs sends from the neighbourhood of Plymouth two forms of 
Galium, with which he writes, “The first, which I obtained on the 
edge of a cliff between Wembury and Bovisand on the 1st of July, is, 
I doubt not, the G. verum, var. ochroleucum, of * English Botany,’ 3rd 
edition. It is, I think, a hybrid. G. verum abounds on the cliffs 
where I found it, and G. ias was growing near it. The other I 
think also a hybrid between the same two species, but partaking more 
of the characters of elatum. I found it on the 29th of June, growing 
on a bank by the side of the road between Plymouth and Saltash. 
There was only one root, close to which was a mass of. G. elatum and 
a patch of G. verum." ‘The characters of these two plants are as 
follows :— 
G. vero-elatum. 
Stems about 1 foot long, slender, 
scarcely thickened at the nodes, pilose 
_ throughout. 
G. elato-verum. 
Stems 14-2 feet long, much stronger 
than in the other, conspicuously 
pipes at the nodes, pilose through- 
about eight in a whorl, and 
Leaves 
fully deflexed upon the main stem, 
linear-subula: : 
er and pilose principally on the 
drib. 
mi 
. Panicle compact, the lower branches 
pet about eight in a whorl, 
deflexed upon the main stem, linear- 
obovate mucronate, broadest at two- 
thirds of the distance from the base 
to the apex, the largest 2 inch long 
by nearly 1 line broad, flat or the 
edges slightly revolute, the texture 
thin: than in the other, 
midrib less prominent, the upper sur- 
ace dull green and naked, the lower 
n, pilose prineipally ih the 
grey-gree 
midrib, the margin furnished wi 
row of short forward-pointing dede 
Panicle composed of numerous dis- 
tant long-stalked numerously-flowered 
