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lata, by its smaller sepals, darker flowers, and pedicels not at all or 

 very slightly recurved, with some other less obvious characters. It 

 is a curious circumstance in connexion with this species, that Mr. C. 

 C. Babington has referred three specimens of an Azoric Fumaria, 

 grown under different conditions of place and season, to as many dif- 

 ferent species, so called ; namely, to F. capreolata (var. media of 

 Webb), "scarcely a variety," — to F. muralis, — and to F. agraria, when 

 raised in England from Azoric seeds. See Bot. Gaz. i. 63. To my 

 eyes, after examining scores of those Azoric Fumarias, living and 

 dried, they seem all to belong to one single species, and to be so lit- 

 tle different, and so gradually dissimilar, as to be scarce worthy of 

 separate names, even in the light of varieties only. But whatever be 

 thought about this English F. agraria as a species, it is certainly no 

 new discovery ; being the F. capreolata of various local writers and 

 collectors. 



Stachys ambigua (Smith). Most of the specimens that have been 

 sent to me, labelled under this name, have been ordinary examples of 

 S. palustris with the leaves slightly stalked. To assist in correcting 

 this frequent error, I last summer dried about thirty specimens of the 

 true plant of Smith, or what is understood to be such by myself. 

 These will be distributed in the Society's parcels ; because any bo- 

 tanist who may possess S. palustris in his herbarium, labelled as S. 

 ambigua, will not be likely to mark Smith's plant as a desideratum. 

 My specimens are partly from the parish of Long Ditton, in Surrey, 

 and partly from the adjacent hamlet of Hook. Those from the for- 

 mer were found in a bean-field, and are full length specimens ; those 

 from the latter locality were collected in a ditch, from which they 

 grew up through thick bramble bushes, with stems too long and 

 straggling to be extricated and pressed in whole lengths. Both S. 

 sylvatica and S. palustris abound in the vicinities ; but the stations 

 of S. ambigua are each limited to a very small space of ground. 



" Sinapis Cheiranthus (Koch)." Some five or six specimens of the 

 Sinapis from Gower, in Glamorganshire, have been sent to the Society, 

 thus labelled, by Mr. Henfrey. I should rather have named them S. mo- 

 nensis, on account of the glabrous bases of the stem and leaves which 

 have only a very few scattered bristles at most ; while in real S. Chei- 

 ranthus of the French coasts, these parts are plentifully hispid. The 

 pods of the Welsh plant are also more distinctly angular. S. monen- 

 sis may, however, be simply a variety of S. Cheiranthus ; or this a 

 variety of that. These few specimens are placed among the doubt- 

 fuls, because I could not feel warranted in erasing the name written 



