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Geranium sylvaticum. 



Geranium syhaticmii has this day been brought in to me from what I 

 believe to be an entirely unrecorded station, \dz. near Llanwddyn, about 

 fourteen miles from this village ; it is a very out-of-the-way ])lace just within 

 Montgomerysliire, and in a secluded recess on the south-eastern slope of 

 the Berwyn ridge. I do not at all know the species as a Merionethshire 

 plant, and, so far as I can find, we had no nearer locality for it than 

 Shropshire ; and tlie few habitats given in Leigliton's ' Flora ' are all 

 from a part of that county furthest removed from the Welsh border. It 

 may be looked upon as a good find, and a very interesting addition to our 

 North Wales flora. I am indebted to om- kind friend John Jones, 

 parish clerk of Llandderfel, for this Geranium. 



July 12th, 1862. WiLLIAM PaMPLIN. 



Oak-leaved or Sinuated-leaved variety of the Common 

 Honeysuckle. 



I send you a curious instance of variation from the ordinary form of 

 leaf in a wild Honeysuckle growing here. The plant is growing at the root 

 of an Oak, and in the last four or five seasons has had all the leaves of the 

 usual texture of the Honeysuckle leaf, but a large proportion of them, some- 

 time a whole branch, with the sinuated margin of those of the Oak. Some 

 of the numerous readers of the ' Phytologist ' may perhaps be able to ad- 

 duce a similar instance of two distinct plants growing close by, and one 

 partaking in some way or other of the nature of the other, and explain how 

 in the present case the variation is to be accounted for. Tlie phnnt this 

 summer has lost its leaves, but should it recover another season, is it pro- 

 bable that the plant is sufficiently impregnated with quercine juice to raise 

 a permanent Oak-leaved plant from an Oak-leaved cutting ? 



Southgate, August IZth. ^- WalKER. 



A Rider to the above. 



Fericlymenum foVm quercinis, Merrett's ' Pinax,' p. 92. — "Non procul 

 Oxonio," Mr. Jenner. Found first near Oxford, by Mr. Jenner (see Mer. 

 Pin. as above), and afterwards by Mr. Knowlton on the way from Hitchin 

 to Wembly. (Eaii Synops. Dill. Ed. 458, 459.) 



Tericlymenum fol. quercinis, Mer. p. 93. — " Caprifolii non perfoliatum, 

 foliis sinuosis " (Inst. Kei Herb. Tourn. 108). Honeysuckle with sinuated 

 leaves. In white heathwood near Harefield, plentifully. (Blackstone, 

 ' Plantse circa Harefield,' p. 75.) 



Baxter (honest and modest man) tells us he himself has found it in (1) 

 Berks., (2) Oxon., (3) Warwick; it is also recorded by Baxter as from (4) 

 Norfolk. (Baxter, Brit. Bot. vol. iv. p. 287.) 



Alton gives this variety (P. qim'cifolium, S) a prominent place, referring 

 to Merrett. (Hort. Kewensis, vol. i. p. 378.) 



Loudon also gives this variety a paragraph, and even notices anothei', or 

 a s?/6variety of it. (Encyclop. Trees and Shrubs, p. 528.) 



Milne and Gordon enumerate no fewer than six places where this variety 

 grows ; the first between Ilford and Barking, in Essex. {Nota bene : this 

 has been overlooked by the authors of the ' Flora of Essex.') 



