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the kingdom (Scotland and Ireland), but not hitherto recorded as 

 found in the south of England.* My specimens well agree with the 

 beautiful figure in E. B. Supplement, iv. t. 2941, and with Reichen- 

 bach's in Iconogr. Bot. viii. t. 722, fig. 964, a vast improvement on 

 his miserable former one in vol. iii. t. 224, fig. 372. As it presents it- 

 self in this island the plant bears most resemblance to L. incisum, but 

 my specimens are far larger than those I possess of the latter, being 

 eighteen inches or more in length. It also agrees with L. incisum in 

 the size of the flowers, which are less exserted than in L. amplexi- 

 caule, to which, as well as to L. purpureum, it likewise has much re- 

 semblance. The uppermost or floral leaves are less crowded than in 

 any of the other three, and in the size, form, and depth of the serra- 

 tures come much the nearest to L. amplexicaule, but differ in being 

 for the most part distinctly sub-cuneate at base, or narrowed into an 

 evident foot-stalk. Our plant is also greener and less hairy than any 

 of its three allies, and the calyx segments, as far as can be seen in 

 their- rather too early flowering state, agree with the descriptions in 

 being longer than the tube of the corolla. The strongly pressed and 

 mostly but half-opened flowers preclude an examination of the tooth- 

 ing of the lateral lobes of the lower lip. As the plant is accounted 

 specifically distinct by many leading botanists in Britain and on the 

 continent, I bow to their decision, but I may be permitted to observe, 

 that the only tolerable characters assigned to it are rather differences 

 of degree than of positive structure, and therefore of very inferior va- 

 lue. I should say that L. intermedium was a variety, and but a 

 slight one, of L. incisum, and this latter but doubtfully distinct itself 

 from L. purpureum. Let any one compare the two first together, and 

 collate Mr. Babington's description of each in the Manual ; he will 

 find, I fear, very little in either to satisfy him of their specific distinc- 

 tion. The only absolute character, if it can be so called, that I can 

 extract from the Manual for distinguishing L. intermedium from L. 

 incisum is, that the lateral lobes of the lower lip in the one are fur- 

 nished with a small, in the other with a strong tooth. The wedge- 

 shaped attenuation of the leaves (at most but partial], and the presence 

 or absence of the " faint ring of hairs" within the tube, are reciprocal 

 and variable in both. I quite agree with Mr. Babington, when he 

 says (speaking of L. intermedium in the Supplement to E. B.), "How- 

 ever difficult it may be to distinguish these plants upon paper, no one 

 can see L. intermedium without being struck by its very different 



* I think it has occurred to the Rev. W. A. Leigh ton, in Shropshire. 



