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2. VARIETIES NEW TO CORNWALL, 



Whatever may 1)6 the extent of our sympathies with 

 botanical " splitters," we cannot ignore the fact that they are with 

 lis and more likely than ever to remain ; and since detailed 

 reference is being made in all County Floras to varieties of plants, 

 it is seemly that some notice should be here made of some of the 

 more interestir g varieties which have recently been added to the 

 flora of Cornwall. 



Fumaria Borcca, Jord., var. serofina, Cl.=i^. muralts, Sond. 

 ap. aiict. angl. (ex parte). Lane near Rialton, St. Columb Minor, 

 Clement Reid. 



Cardamme pratensis, Linn., var. palustris, Peterm. Rialton, 

 and elsewhere, St. Columb Minor, C. C. Vigurs. "This is a 

 plant with pinnate radical leaves, with three pairs of distinctly 

 stalked cordate leaflets, and usually lilac flowers .... The true 

 C. pratenftis . . . .liafi radical leaves with five to eight pairs of 

 sessile leaflets, which are rounded at the base but not cordately 

 emarginate, and the flowers are usually white," Druce, Flora of 

 Berkshire. 



Geranium Rohcrtianum, Linn., var. modesium (Jord.). St. 

 Minver and Wadebridge, R. V. Tellam. Padstow, J7^. Barratt. 

 Crantock, Clement Reid. Mr. Eeid, who has been engaged on a 

 critical study of the Cornish forms of G. Rohertianum, tells me 

 that the variety modestiim has characteristic yellow anthers. 



Callitriche /la inula fa, Kuetz, var. peduncalata (DC.) This 

 form, in which the fruit is often considerably stalked, affects 

 shallow, muddy pools, especially such as are periodically disturbed 

 by the oj^erations of man, or by the treading of cattle. Mr. 

 Reid first recorded it from TrefuUock Moor, in the parish of St. 

 Enoder, and from Park of Mines, near St. Columb Road Station. 

 Subsequently Ifr. Barratt detected it on Crackrattle Moor, 

 Denzeli Down, in the parish of Newlyn East, and about the same 

 time I discovered it in a wayside pool at Greensplat, in the 

 parish of Gwennap. 



Carduus crispus, Linn., var. pohjantheinos (Koch). Par, 1903, 

 R. V. Tellam. 



Mentha gent His, Linn., var. TFirtgeniana (F. Schultz). Road- 

 side brook, near Camelford, C. C. Vigurs. 



