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Burnt-house and Barres Moor. It is a rather slender plant, with 

 small, i^ale flowers, peduncles incurved, pedicels slender, variable 

 in direction, often recui'ved. 



F. confusa, Jord., var. hibernica, Pugsley. Mr. Pugsley 

 so names a form of confusa which has the dark-tipped corolla of 

 Borm, It was first found in Ireland by Mr. Lloyd Praeger, 

 where its wide distribution suggested the name which has been 

 bestowed on it. In September I was able to send Mr. Pugsley 

 good fresh specimens from a potato-field near Ponsanooth. 

 Shortly before receiving them Mr. Pugsley had detected a 

 specimen from the Scilly Isles in the herbarium of Mr. F. 

 Townsend. 



Sisymbrium oflBcinale, Scop., var. leiocarpum, DO. This 

 variety, distinguished from the type by its glabrous instead of 

 downy pods, is, probably, generally distributed throughout the 

 county. 



Polygala serpyllacea, Weihe, var. vincoides, Chodat m 

 litt. In this plant Cornwall gives a new and striking variety to 

 science. When I first found it in September on Wheal Clifford 

 Downs, in the parish of Gwennap, I was so struck with its 

 divergence from all the British forms with which I was 

 acquainted that I instantly despatched specimens to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, asking for an opinion. Mr. Bennett, who j)ossesses an 

 unrivalled knowledge of British Polygalce, was also puzzled by 

 the stranger, and he in turn sent a specimen to Dr. Chodat, of 

 Geneva, the monograjiher of the genus. Under these circum- 

 stances. Dr. Chodat' s verdict, that the plant was new to science, 

 was not altogether a surprise. Dr. Chodat very kindly drew up 

 the following description, of which I give also a translation : — 

 " Foliis ellipticis, breviter acutis subimbricatis plerumque 

 oppositis superioribus tantum alteruis, racemis terminalibus 

 brevibus hand involucratis, alis magis ellipticis quam oblongis, 

 crista minus divisa circa 8 loba, lobis marginalibus latioribus 

 incisis, stylo ovario haud longiore, seminibus ellipsoideis Isevibus 

 potius patentibus parce hirsutis." Leaves elliptical, shortly 

 pointed, subimbricate, mostly opposite, only the ujDper ones 

 alternate, racemes terminal, short, not at all involucred, wings 

 more elliptical than oblong, crest but little divided, about 



