364 BOTANICAL REPOBT. 



8-lobed, tlie marginal lobes wider and incised, style not at all 

 longer than tlie ovary, seeds ellij)soidal, smooth, rather patent, 

 sparingly hairy. Since receiving Dr, Chodat's letter, I have 

 found the plant well distributed over the top of Carnmarth Hill. 

 In its two localities it was associated with Potentilla silvestns, var. 

 sciaphila, and Ulex Gallii, var. humilis. On Wheal Clift'ord 

 Downs only blue-flowered examples were seen ; but on Carnmarth 

 Hill blue and pink-flowered ones were growing together. 



Ulex Gallii, Planch., var. humilis, Planch, Many of us 

 who have been working at the flora of Cornwall have long been 

 puzzled about a dwarf variety of the Autumn Furze, for the 

 most part restricted to high or exposed places. It has a general 

 distribution from the Tamar to the Land's End. Its habit at 

 once arrests attention. Instead of producing long erect branches, 

 its branches are short and decumbent, and they grow so thickly 

 together that one can easily walk on the dense masses without 

 touching the ground. When a croft where this furze grows has 

 been fired and the plants burnt to the ground, the shoots which 

 are produced the following year are absolutely prostrate, and 

 generally are more full-flowered than the branches on old 

 plants. When I started to unravel the tangle, I collected 

 specimens from widely separated districts. The examination 

 which followed, and the comparison of the specimens so got 

 together with JI. Gallii, led to the conclusion that I had found 

 something which had not been described in any of our British 

 Floras. Here, again, I was driven to seek the assistance of Mr. 

 Bennett, and after he had seen and examined fresh plants, he 

 pronounced them to be Planchon's var. humilis of U. Gallii. I 

 have not the least doubt that this is the plant which earlier 

 writers recorded for Cornwall as U. natiiis, 



Rubus plicatus, Wh. &N., var. hemistemon, (P. J. Muell.) 

 To this variety Mr. Eogers refers "a singular small form," 

 collected at Colbiggan Down, Withiel, by I>r. T'ic/urs. 



R. macrophyllus, Wh. & N., var. macrophylloides 



(Grenev.) Wood behind Sticking-bridge, near Ponsanooth, 

 F. H. Bavey. I may here remark that Cornwall is erroneously 

 credited with this variety on page lUl of " Handbook of British 

 Eubi." Mr. Eogers informs me that South Devon, not East 

 Cornwall, was intended. 



