474 ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 



prove true L. vulgaris. Glabrous pedicels, given as 

 one character of that variety, are not unfrequent in wild 

 plants of ordinary L. vulgaris. The leaves of the variet}'', 

 equally as of the sj)ecies, varj' from linear to lanceolate, 

 even on the very same example under different conditions 

 of soil, &c. As commonly happens in other plants, the 

 size of the flowers in L. vulgaris bears a relation to their 

 number in the raceme, and to the luxuriance of the 

 foliage ; this being what any physiological observer of 

 plants might anticij)ate would be the case, although it is 

 one of those ordinary variations of species, the true na- 

 ture of which the describers of specimens seldom ajjiiear 

 to understand. In short, the supposed L. speciosa is 

 rather a casual variation than a true variety, and would 

 probably lose its peculiarities if kept in a small flower-pot 

 sparingly watered, and exposed to the sun. 



788. Limosella aquatica, vol. ii. p. 222. 



The south limit extends into Cornwall, if we may 

 safely rely upon a record in a paper by Mr. E. T. Ben- 

 nett in Phytologist, iv. page second ; but that paper indi- 

 cates deficiency of botanical knowledge in the writer, and 

 inexperience in the art of expressing ideas with the pen. 

 The alleged fact is not in itseK improbable, but is ren- 

 dered so by the terms in wliich it is reiDoried, and by other 

 remarks with which it is associated. Was the Littorella 

 mistaken for Limosella in Cornwall ? I suspect the re- 

 cord of the latter in Turner and Dillwyn's Guide, under 

 the county of Northampton, should have belonged to the 

 former plant instead. 



789*. Mimulus luteiis, vol. ii. p. 224. 



This has been sent to me from Kincardineshire by 

 Mrs. Dickson ; and Mr. G. S. Gibson reports it as abun- 

 dant in a moist meadow near Dunoon. 



