LONDON BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 67 
Arctium eu-minus, Syme, E. B. Mr. Briggs sends this from El- 
burton, Devon. 
Senecio squalidus, L. A variety sent from Jericho, near Oxford, by 
Mr. Dyer. In this plant the flower-heads are exactly one-half the 
normal size, 7. e. 1 inch instead of 1 inch across, whilst the foliage is 
very slightly smaller than usual The dried specimens have very 
much the appearance of the rayed form of S. vulgaris, L. Mr. Dyer 
proposes the name parviflorus for this variety. It grew sparingly 
amongst thousands of the normal form. 
Pyrola minor, L. A wood near Brook Street, between that place 
and Bowler Green, S.W., Surrey ; H. C. Watson. A new locality. 
Linaria vulgaris, Mill. A monstrous or abnormal form gathered by 
Mr. Watson near Virginia Water Station, Surrey. The following is 
his description of the flower:—* The calyx is normal, or nearly so. 
The corolla is replaced by five other sepals, alternating with those of 
the calyx, less uniform, mostly rather narrower and longer. Within 
the second calyx, or metamorphosed corolla, are one to four stamens, 
distorted, very imperfect, with abortive anthers. The style isa hollow 
cylinder, open at the top, where the stigma ought to be; in the lower 
flowers it is much like the ordinary style, except in being shorter and 
thicker; in the upper flowers, gradually becoming more inflated, so as - 
rudely to resemble an imperfect corolla, of a yellowish-green colour, 
partially split open, and divided into narrow segments, two to four (or 
perhaps five in some instances), which are evidently prolongations of 
the carpels, bearing axillary ovules within their bases. The general 
aspect or first glance at the raceme suggests the idea of a Reseda rather 
than that of a Linaria. There was one straggling patch of the plant 
on a hedgebank, the green racemes protruding through other herbage, 
and sufficiently near together to render it probable that all came from 
a single root which had spread by its creeping suckers. Plants with 
flowers of the normal form were in close vicinity. Each individual 
specimen of the aberrant monstrosity will not exactly correspond with 
the above description,—in some of them, the styles being more corolla- 
like, in others, being more split open and less cylindrical, etc.” 
Mentha piperita, Huds. Subspontaneous, at Boar's Hill, Berks, 
near Oxford ; collected by Mr. Dyer. Not recorded for sub-province 9 
in Cyb. Br. Supp 
M. sativa, L. Mr. Briggs sends from near Plymouth specimens 
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