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its radical leaves being entirely shrivelled up and decayed. By his 

 statement of "Barren radical leafy tufts contemporaneous with the 

 flowers," I believe I can suggest how he has committed the error. 

 In my remarks upon maculatum sent to the Society, September, 1846 

 (Phytol. ii. 686), I alluded to a second growth of flowers, in the same 

 season, from the same roots : when the first shoots have nearly deve- 

 loped all their flowers, or about the beginning of August, fresh buds 

 are sent up from the roots, which throw out a tuft of radical leaves 

 (if the summer is showery they are two or three weeks forwarder), but 

 they are not " barren," but bear flowers from September until killed 

 by the frosts in December. A stranger to the varied habit of the 

 plant, when shown a vigorous stem gathered in the middle of July, 

 and another in November, would with great difficulty be induced to 

 believe that they had sprung from the same root. 



There may sometimes be gathered about the latter end of May a 

 few small specimens of maculatum, about the size of the dwarf au- 

 tumnal plants mentioned above, with from four to six or eight flowers 

 and buds on each, and if gathered when the first flowers open, they 

 may then be procured with the radical leaves not all decayed. 



In his description of the pubescence of vulgatura and its varieties 

 he makes no mention of glandular hairs being intennixed with the 

 bristles on the upper part of the peduncles and the involucral scales : 

 in some plants they are very copiously intermingled. 



As if to show the deceptive character of many of the usual distinc- 

 tions of plants when applied to this protean genus, I have now before 

 me the panicle of one plant, which in one head has the seeds of a 

 bright chestnut colour, and in another head they are a deep, sooty 

 black, in others, again, of a light chocolate colour. Under boreale, 

 Mr. B. alludes to the colour of the seed. 



Hypochoeris radicata. — I gathered several plants lately of this 

 species, and found the back of the teeth of the corolla bearing glands: 

 there were about three on each floret. In 'English Flora,' iii. 351, 

 Apargia hispida is stated to bear glands at the back of the teeth of 

 the corolla. 



Dactylis glomerata. — Among plants subject to white varieties may 

 be enumerated the above. While out botanizing a few days since, I 

 met with a quantity of the foregoing plant in the damp corner of a 

 field : the anthers, instead of being of the usual deep violet colour, 

 were a cream-coloured white, the stem and leaves were of a very 

 pale green. There were some ])lants of the usual colour growing 



