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“Galeopsis angustifolia, Ehrh. G. Ladanwm, Auct. Leaves narrow, 
lanceolate or linear, with 1 to 3 pairs of teeth, rarely 4 or 5 or entire; 
corolla-tube conspicuously surpassing the calyx. This species is very 
variable, and its principal varieties have been elevated to the rank of 
species, I believe wrongly. Its leaves may be broad (var. latifolia, G 
latifolia, Hoffm.) or narrow (var. angustifolia) ; its flowers vary muc 
in their dimensions; the plant may be charged with abundant whitish 
villosity, var. canescens (G. canescens, Schult.), or it may be slender or 
stout, with a stem little or much branched. G. arvatica, Jord., and 
G. Laramberguei, De Mart., are only, I believe, simple varieties of this 
type. A crowd of intermediate variations link the principal forms 
“G. intermedia, Vill. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, with 4 to 8 pairs of 
close teeth; corolla-tube but slightly surpassing the calyx. This 
species, although very near to G. angustifolia, can never be confounded 
with it when properly known. 
“Ulex Europeus, L. I have found in abundance in a fir wood at 
Aeltre (E. Flanders), a very curious form, which I have called pro- 
visionally var. spurius. It is much more slender than the type, more 
delicate in all its parts, with stems less erect, rough and often diffuse, 
with leaves and young branches arcuate towards the base, with flowers 
a little smaller; calyx slightly less hairy; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 
either equalling or surpassing very slightly the breadth of the summit 
of the peduncle, half as narrow as those of the typical plant. This 
singular form seems to establish a passing between Luropeus and 
Galli." 
We are sorry to see several changes, where specifie names for com- 
mon plants, which have been universally adopted, are altered, as, for 
instance, Silene inflata to S. venosa, Barbarea vulgaris to B. lyrata, 
Nasturtium officinale to N. fontanum. In conclusion, we recommend 
the book cordially to the attention of our home botanists. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
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. has just been edel . With the first fasciculus by Boissier, already in the 
hands of botanists, we have now the complete monograph of the Matani Order 
