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pnlmonaiium, — " the first partial stalk remaining always much lower 

 than the rest," the central flower above mentioned being always over- 

 topped by the upper floral branches. Another character Smith does 

 not allude to, is the gradual change of the leaves from the " radical 

 ones on long hairy footstalks," to the " scattered linear hairy brac- 

 teas." I have called those leaves stem-leaves below the first floral 

 branch, but some of those at the base of other floral branches may al- 

 so be called stem-leaves, not having departed from the dentated out- 

 line of the lower leaves, although much narrower. As to the question 

 of its being a species distinct from H. sylvaticum, with which it is 

 united in the Edinburgh Catalogue, I do not consider myself compe- 

 tent to offer an opinion. — James Bladon ; Pont-y-Pool, Dec. 184-3. 



462. Note on OrnitJwpus perpusillus? I was puzzled in the sum- 

 mer of 1842, wdth a small leguminous plant that I found on the top of 

 one of our mountains, and which I could not then make out. It was 

 not above an inch high in the highest part of it, and all its flowers and 

 legumes were in pairs. I brought a sod of it home, containing about 

 half-a-dozen plants. I earnestly watched them (until they were kill- 

 ed by the frosts of winter) both blossoming and seeding, but they did 

 not deviate from their former size and appearance. The above plant 

 [Ornithopus perpusillus] was the nearest I could find whose descrip- 

 tion partially agreed with my humble protege. This past suunner I 

 determined to test it again; I accordingly sowed some of the seeds in 

 February, March and April, in some old flower-pots. One of the 

 seeds vegetated in about three weeks, the others were from six to ten 

 weeks before they threw up their husks. Some of them had not pro- 

 duced any flowers when they fell under the harshness of the weather 

 in the present week. Some of the smallest had leaves and stems 

 about an inch and a half high ; others had the leaves three inches 

 and stems from three to six inches long: one plant in particular threw 

 up a single stem nearly fifteen inches long : but they all produced 

 flowers and legumes in pairs, except two heads, one of which had 

 three flowers and the other five, but they were both unfiuitful not pro- 

 ducing one legume in either head. From the luxuriant growth ol 

 some of the plants, I now suspect that it is a variety of O. perpusillus. 

 Id. January 20, 1844. 



463. Note on Campanulas. During the two last summers having 

 gathered a few plants of some of the few-flowered species when nearly 

 flowering, and transplanted them into some flower-pots for the pur- 

 pose of observing whether the spreading or closing of the sepals was 

 constant in the same plant j — I observed the following peculiarity in 



