118 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
distinct from F. capreolata we will not aftirm; the only important dis- 
tinction is in the fruit. But if the Ambleside plant agrees with the de- 
scription given from Grenier, we have no hesitation in saying that it is 
agraria, Lag. If we meet with any more of these forms at Wandsworth, 
we shall preserve them. There is a bit of the plant in the Linnean 
Society’s herbarium. 
Trifolium repens, metamorphosed state of.—1 beg to send a curious and 
anomalous growth of Trifolium repens, in which the pedicels are greatly 
lengthened, and the calyx-segments converted into leaves. 1 apprehend 
that this extraordinary growth of White Clover is identical with the one 
described by Professor W. Hinckes, at the twenty-second meeting of the 
British Association. The enclosed specimen I found about three years 
ago. The plant grew in a hedge-bank, but I have not noticed any such 
unusual growth since, in that or any other locality. J. GIFFORD. 
[We are much obliged to our correspondent, and beg to inform him 
that in the ‘ Botanical Gazette’ there is an elaborate paper on this state of - 
the plant, by Mr. Robert Austen, with diagrams of the metamorphosed 
parts. We believe his apprehension is a correct one, though we have not 
seen Mr. Hinckes’ paper. But we have seen the White Clover in various 
stages of metamorphosis, such as are described by Mr. Austen and by our 
obliging correspondent. ] 
Botrychium Lunaria.—A few days ago I was gratified to find this spe- 
cies in a pasture at Weelsby, not more than a mile from Great Grimsby, 
and about a mile and a half from Cleethorpes. I counted more than. 
twenty plants, all growing within a small space near the footpath leading 
from Grimsby to Clee; and I dare say that, if I had prolonged my search, 
I might have found it in other parts of the field. Iam not aware that 
this interesting little plant has hitherto been found in many localities in 
Lincolnshire, though it is possibly much more widely dispersed, not only 
in this county, but also in others, than is generally supposed. R. W. R. 
Humberstone. 
Epipogium aphyllum.—On the 29th of July, 1854, I received a letter 
from Mrs. Anderton Smith, enclosing a specimen of what we now know to 
be the Hpipogium, requesting me to name it for her. It was found ina 
foot-path at the bottom of a very steep bank, close to the Sefey-brook at 
Tedstone Delamere, near Bromyard. The banks are clothed with oaks, 
surrounded by ferns and briars, and are very shady. No other specimen 
had been found up to the 10th of August. I bemg unable to reduce the 
plant to any British genus, enclosed it to Mr. H.C. Watson, who returned 
it to me named. I see that Mr. Lees is reported to have presented a spe- 
cimen to the Linnean Society, from which I conclude that other specimens 
have been found. W. R. Croren. 
Stoke. Court, Taunton. 
Glechoma micranthum, Bonng—In the ‘Flora Excursoria,’ page 316, 
Reichenbach describes, under Glechoma hederacea, a variety minor (G. 
micranthum, Bonning), “ Sepe colorata, rufescens, non raro ad calyces et 
foliorum ortum pubescens, stolones longissimi.” Last summer I noticed, 
growing upon a dry sandy hedgebank by the roadside between the villages 
of Carlton Miniott and Busby Stoop, near Thirsk, a form of Ground Ivy 
