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above. Specimens from Llyn Coron, Anglesea^ agree exactly 

 with what Babington says of the scabrous stems and the sepa- 

 ration of the lateral lobes of the stipules. In the latter respect, 

 as well as in the tufted stem springing from a perennial root, 

 the plant nearly approaches V. tricolor; but the form of the 

 middle lobe of the stipules will always be sufficient to distin- 

 guish it. The lower stipules are nearly palmate, with a ligulate 

 sharply-pointed middle lobe ; the upper stipules have it narrowly 

 obovate- oblong, entire, as far as I can see, upon the three plants 

 from Anglesea, New Brighton, and Braunton. If obsoletely 

 crenate sometimes, it is still very different in form and size from 

 the middle lobe of the upper stipules of any variety of V. tri- 

 color. Sepals glabrous or nearly so, their appendages falling 

 much short of the corolla-spur. Petals rather narrow, whitish- 

 yellow in the Anglesea plant, purplish-yellow in that from Che- 

 shire, which latter has more pointed sepals; but the crenations 

 upon the upper stipule-lobe must be rare, as I do not find any 

 upon the specimens before me. 



Bemhridge, April, 1860. 



EXTRACTS FROM COERESPONDENCE.* 



Listera cordata not rare in Merionethshire. 



. . . When you and I had the pleasure of gathering this 

 elegant little Orchis in June 1859 upon the boggy hillsides be- 

 tween this and Llangwm, I had no idea that the plant was so 

 generally distributed, in all directions, about this part of Merio- 

 nethshire; but every day's longer acquaintance with these ex- 

 tensive moors will (as I already begin to find) add materially to 

 our store of facts tending to illustrate the geographical botany 

 of this hitherto little-explored county Merionethshire. In the 

 months of June and of July in the present year (1860), while 

 beating the ground over for Rubus Chammmorus upon the Ber- 

 wyns, in company with John J ones, it occurred to us to examine 

 that part of the ridge between Moel-cwm-shant-Llwyd and Cader 

 Fronwen, and in no less than three distant spots Ave came upon 

 abundance of this pretty plant. The first spot is a boggy heath- 

 covered part of the mountain, about a quarter of a mile east of 

 * See vol. It. p. 53. 



