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soils. Var. B. Peloria. Very rare in the Isle of Wight, nor have i any 

 notice of its occurrence on the mainland of Hants. A single speci- 

 men in the marshy meadows betwixt Newchurch and Alverston, facing 

 a cottage called Burnt House, Oct. 4, 1842. Some of the flowers 

 with five, others with six spurs. I found some plants between Mor- 

 ton House and Alverston bearing a few flowers with cleft spurs; in 

 one flower there were two spurs each so divided, but no multiplica- 

 tion of any other part of the corolla. Var. y. Corolla milk-white, 

 palate deep orange. In a field-hedge betwixt Werror farm and the 

 high-road from Newport to Cowes, Aug. 9, 1839. Betwixt Cockle- 

 ton and Gurnet Bay. A very handsome variety from the shining, 

 milky-whiteness of the corolla and the deep orange of the palate. 

 The spur is a little longer and more attenuated than in the ordinary 

 state of the plant. Mr. Borrer has seen the same variety in Sussex, 

 but the brilliant white cannot be prevented from changing to a yel- 

 low in the process of drying. Var. £ Palate very pale-yellow, 

 almost white. Not uncommon in the Isle of Wight generally, and 

 perhaps hardly deserving notice as a form. Royal Heath &c. Var. e. 

 latifolia. Leaves much broader, flowers larger, on glabrous pedicels. 

 Under the wooded shore a little west of Ryde, towards Binstead, Aug. 

 1845 (an L. speciosa, Ten.). A very remarkable variety, if not a dis- 

 tinct species, though I can find no good character to separate it from 

 L. vulgaris excepting proportion of parts. Leaves much broader than 

 in that, narrowly lanceolate, the floral ones often quite lanceolate, 

 more rigid and spreading, and very glaucous. Flowers nearly twice 

 as large as in L. vulgaris, approaching to those of L. dalmatica in size, 

 and like them of a citron rather than sulphur-yellow, very handsome, 

 forming a few-flowered, lax or distant raceme, not crowded and im- 

 bricated as in L. vulgaris, on longer, less erect, glabrous pedicels, the 

 spur longer, straighter, more attenuated and very acute, directed per- 

 pendicularly downwards. Capsules not above half the size of those 

 of L. vulgaris, mostly shorter than the calyx, sometimes as long or a 

 very little longer.* Seeds smaller and very similar to those of L. vul- 

 garis, but the tubercles in the centre larger, more prominent and 

 irregular. The only species to which I can refer our plant is the L. 

 speciosa of Tenore, since it corresponds pretty exactly with the short 

 description of this latter by Bertoloni (Fl. Ital. vi. p. 370), for Te- 

 nore's own figure I have not the means of consulting. The plant is 



* The capsules in this genus are extremely liable to vary in size and configura- 

 tion in the same species, as we see them do in Euphrasia. 



