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26. Syringa, leaves first open. 



28. Whitethorn, leaves first open. 

 „ Dog-rose, leaves first open. 



„ Sweet briar, leaves first open. 

 „ Willow catkins open. 



29. Bitter cress {Cardamitie hirsuta) first in fl. 



30. Wood anemone first in fl. 



If you think the above at all usefiil I will, at the end of June, send 

 you my observations again. 



E. J. R. Hughes. 

 St. Bees, Cumberland, 

 April 8, 1847. 



Occurrence of a Whiie-Jlowered Variety of E'pilohium montanum 

 in Fifeshire. By George Lawson, Esq. 



During the summer of last year 1 had the pleasure of meeting 

 with a beautiful variety of the Epilobium montanum, bearing pure 

 milk-white blossoms, growing in a neglected and weed-grown ditch, 

 by the margin of an out-of-the-way and little-frequented road, be- 

 twixt Airdit and the Briggs-muir, near to the village of Logic, in this 

 county. Instances of variation in the colouring of the flowers of this 

 plant are by no means uufrequent ; but I never before found it with 

 flowers entirely white. There were a good number of plants of the 

 variety at the place I have mentioned, and these enjoyed a strict 

 monopoly of that part of the ditch where they grew, not one rose-co- 

 loured flower daring to mingle in the mass of milky blossoms, al- 

 though abundance of the usual ruddy flowers decked the hedges and 

 way-sides and other parts of the ditch. And, indeed, I have seldom, 

 if ever, seen this Epilobium so abundant and so beautiful, as by the 

 way-sides around the place I have mentioned as the station for the 

 white-flowered variety. I could observe nothing peculiar in the situ- 

 ation of the plant sufiicient to account for the change of colour of 

 the flowers. 



George Lawson. 



Dairsie muir, via Cupar, Fifeshire, 

 20th April, 1847. 



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