THIRSK BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. TI 
1-2 inches long, and the internodes 
still shorter; corolla segments a pale 
but decided yellow, ovate, bluntish, 
3 line long by 1 broad; the peduncles 
usually under 1 line in length, ulti- 
mately divaricate or defiexed; the fruit 
smooth, naked. 
Leaves and flowers m very 
slightly t black in dryin 
First fruit just full size July 1st, so 
that it will probably flower about the 
rs; corolla segments cream- 
colar slightly tinged with purple, 
eding a line in 
length, ultimately erecto-patent, or 
spreading at right angles, not deflexed; 
the fruit smooth, naked. 
Scarcely turns at all black in drying. 
First flowers opening June 29; 
styles united half the way down, some- 
times longer than the stamens, some- 
times shorter. 
second week or middle of June, at 
least a fortnight earlier than the other. 
The flowers of both of these and of G. verum measure 1 line across 
when fully expanded, of G. elatum 14 lines, of G. erectum 2 lines. 
For France, Grenier and Godron describe four forms intermediate be- 
tween verum on the one hand, and elatum and erectum on the other, 
which they call eminens, approzimatum, decolorans, and ambiguum ; and 
for Germany, Dr. F. Schultz describes two, which he calls Wirtgeni 
and Paulianum. Of these decolorans, eminens, and Wirtgeni are 
nearest to verum, the other three to Mollugo. It would seem that we 
have here another instance of what has been observed to occur already 
with Stachys palustris and sylvatica, Primula veris and vulgaris, Geum 
rivale and urbanum, and perhaps also Lychnis diurna and vespertina, 
where pairs of closely-allied plants produce natural hybrids, in which 
sometimes the characters of one, and sometimes of the other parent, 
predominate. 
Antirrhinum Orontium. Sent by the Rev. F. Addison from the 
neighbourhood of Braystones, in West Cumberland, where it has been 
noted recently in large quantities by Mrs. Pratten, daughter of the 
botanist Knapp. Anglesea is the most northern point, on the west 
side of the island, from which it is registered in the * Cy 2 
Thymus Serpyllum and Chamedrys. After several years’ cultivation 
side by side, the North Yorkshire forms of these two plants exhibit the 
following characters :— 
: > best <u z S 
aby Me fe the expanded, the i Med Eus dq 
upper segment d sud the upper segment ro — 
