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Viola nana Sam. ; Cochlearia micacea Marsh — pod ' more than twice as 

 long as broad ' — a Scottish prostrate form or state of high schistose rocks, 

 placed now as a variety of C. alpina, and not as in Loud. Cat, a ' species ' 

 of equal values with the rest ; Polygala vincoides Chod. — like a diminutive 

 periwinkle with stem leaves opposite, crowded and broadly elliptic, which, 

 too, sounds like a state induced by local conditions ; Dianthns gallicus ; 

 Lavatera sylvestris ; Tvifoliuni rcsitpiitatuni and agrarium — the latter 

 suggestively enough found chiefly in Scotland and North England, starred 

 as introduced, but since like Rhinanthiis major of waste reclaiming days, 

 appears mainly in ground taken over for cultivation, possibly a hardy 

 long-overlaid indigen which has in recent days got its cliance to assert 

 itself through soil overturned at the hands of man ; Coronilla vavia ; 

 Fragavia bercheriensis — hitherto in Yorkshire mis-referred to Moschata, 

 the Hautbois strawberry, which occurs at Grimston (C. Waterfall !) and 

 elsewhere in light soil woodland ; Rosa uncinata Lees, kept as a var. of 

 Smith's tonientosa, and not erected into an equal value species as is done 

 by Ley in Lond. Cat. Ed. 10. ; Callitviche tritncata ; (Euothera Lamarhiana ; 

 Caviim Petvoseliiium (Parsley), now quite a dominant denizen on certain 

 soils in Mid-Lincolnshire ; Selinum Carvifolia ; Coviauder, which, with its 

 buggy ' aroma ' and prettily fanning petalic enlargement is common 

 enough by York",bire miln-decked rivers, in these later days ; Asperula 

 arvensis ; Crepis nicasensis ; Oxycoccus macrocarpus, the Americ-Cran- 

 berry ; the hybrid Bil-cow-berry, to the localities for which the Oakbeck 

 pinewood at Harrogate must be added ; Ledum palustre ; Limoniitm 

 lychnidi folium ; Geutiana Pamplinii Druce — another ' cross ' to those whom 

 personal appelations affront ; Omphalodes vevna ; Linaria pitlchella Druce 

 (' spur bent, palate of flower orange-spotted ') ; Euphrasia minima Jacq., 

 2:. salisburgensis P., and E. lati folia Pursh — three rightly-styled ' micro- 

 species ' of the ' Eyebright ' plant pixies, of which E. Rostkoviana with 

 clownish big flower-face, plays the showiest antic on the turf ; Orobanche 

 Spitzelii and ramosa recently found near Hull ; Pinguicula bicolor, Thymus 

 glaber, Mill and T. prcBcox (Opiz. ) ; Salvia Marquandii ; Prunella 

 laciniata ; Stachys alpina ; Teucrium Scorodonia var. dentatuni Bab. ined — 

 a form with deeply-cut leaves almost confined to the barrenest potassic 

 rock-soil ; Plantago ramosa and argentea ; Salsola tenuifolia (leaves 

 narrow not spinescent) ; Rumex alpinus, so retentive of its monachal 

 sites (as still at Adel near Leeds !) ; Urtica hispida D.C., the very 

 venomous Porcupine Nettle ; Salix daphnoides Vill. ; Orchis cruenta 

 (Mull), with the vars. prcecox Wehst. =ericetorum Lint., and O' Kellyi 

 of the common ' spotted ' gandergoss of our undrained lands ; Sagittaria 

 heterophylla Pursh var. incana Hiern — introduced to the Exe with wood- 

 pulp for paper-making, it is probable ; Potamogeton Drucei Fryer (river 

 Loddon) ; " the blade of the floating (4 to 6 inch) leaves gradually 

 merging into petiole,' and so elliptic ' beautifully reticulated throughout ' 

 — one is sorry not to find our Calder Canal P. pensylvanicus or epihydrus 

 also defined, for cotton-carried to us as it is, it is now ' at home ' 

 through six miles stretch of waterway ; unlike the foregoing the 

 detection by Mr. Druce of a seventh Zannichellia [gibberosa Rchb.) in 

 Northants dikes near Eye and semi-brack ditches in Berks at Marcham, 

 to be known from all the rest by the briefly stipitate cornua being crested 

 like a newt on both dorsal and ventral curve, came just too late to be 

 included ; but, to finish, what an alluring feast for the eye of new shapes 

 and forms, not to be found in the Bentham or Babington of our Victorian 

 days may l)e identified in this marvellous little but latest mirror ' held up 

 to nature,' or rather, to the special fair face of Flora ! For which every 

 devout worshipper must give Mr. Druce hearty thanks. 



The publishers and proprietors, Geo. Bell & Sons, have maintained 

 the format and standard of typographic execution well, so that at 4s. 6d. 

 the rounded corner, ' limp ' tome is a multum in parvo for the wily and 

 wise ' book-in-breeches ' botanist. 



F, Arnold Lees. 



1910 June I. 



