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floccosos etnigro-glandulosos diviso, oliis oblongis lanceolatisve denta- 

 tis, radicalibus petiolatis minoribus marcescentibus, caulinis sessilibus 

 superioribus basi cordata semiamplexicaulibus, involucris nigrican- 

 tibus pilosis squamis latis obtusis ligulis ciliatis, achasniis badio- 

 fuscis. 



H. fruticosum alpinum latifolium minus, uno alterove in summo 

 flore. Raii Hist. iii. p. 178, Syn. Brit. 170, omnino. 



H. arnplexicaule accedens, Smith, Eng. Fl. iii. ! in obs. 



29. No. 146, H. virescens, Sonder, aphyllopodum, caule dense fo- 



lioso, foliis sessilibus ovatis lanceolatisve medio dentatis, subtus cre- 



bre triplinervibus, anthela racernoso-corymbosa paniculataque basi 



foliolosa, involucris basi attenuatis nudis squamis sursum attenuatis 



apiceque jlocculosis margine pallidis, stylo luteo fuscescente. 



In Surrey, Angliae, Woods! 



James Bladon. 



Pont-y-Pool, July 22, 1850. 



Note on Sagina procumbens with double Jlowers , 

 By the Rev. R. C. Douglas, M.A. 



On the 27th of last June, I found Sagina procumbens with double 



flowers, growing amongst Sphagnum in a small bog by the road-side 



about half way between Stafford and Rugeley. All parts of the 



flower, with the exception of the calyx, being converted into pure 



white petals, it presented a most beautiful appearance when seen 



through a magnfier. The occurrence of double flowers in a plant 



whose petals are usually so inconspicuous seems remarkable ; is it not 



also the smallest known example of the double flower so much 



prized by florists ? In Baxter's ' British Phaenogamous Botany,' vol. 



iii. plate 199, there is a figure of this variety, from a plant grown in 



the Oxford Botanic Garden. In the text it is stated to have been 



" first found by the late Rev. H. Davis, author of ' Welsh Botano- 



logy,' on a green near Beaumaris, in the Isle of Anglesey, in July, 



1817." 



R. C. Douglas. 



Forebridge, Stafford, 

 August 12, 1850. 



