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Cerastium triviale, Link., var. alpinum. “Little Kilrannoch, Clova, 
Forfarshire,"—F. BucHaNaN WHITE. This very remarkable plant is 
readily known from all the other forms of C. £riviale, by the petals being 
var. cherophyllum. Ihave no authentic specimens of E. pretermissu 
or t a 
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Jord., but Mr. Baker's specimens do t alla with Boreau's de- 
scription, ** Sépales couverts de poils glanduleux,” for this form is 
nger. 
Impatiens parviflora, DC. “ Hedges of a field, Oxton, Cheshire.” —H. S. 
Fismgn. This alien seems steadily to increase its area in Britain, although 
totally ignored in Dr. Hooker's * Student's Flora.’ Mr. Watson,‘ Comp 
Cyb. Brit., p. 496, considers that it is likely to become an esta- 
blished alien. 
Trifolium maritimum, Huds.  * River Hamble, Botley, Southampton. I 
know of only one patch of this clover in this neighbourhood, but it is of 
Course more than likely that there is more." —G. S. STREATFEILD. 
ubus imbricatus, Hort. I have the authority of Mr. Baker for. pro- 
nouncing the specimens which I send to be this. It was picked in com- 
pany with and under the guidance of Mr. B. M. Watkins, at the precise 
spot indicated in Prof. Babington’s ‘ British Rubi,’ as “ by the tramroad 
above rook." 
. from that by its quinate leaflets, more compound panicle, more abundant 
G. BAKER. | 
sa britannica, Desegl. ** First observed by a friend of Mr. F. Arnold 
Lees, to grow, early this year, by the shore of Menai, near the Suspension 
Bridge, Carnarvonshire.. I saw only one bush at edge of brushwood 
Over the beach."—]J. HARBORD. LEWIS. 
Crategus oxyacanthoides? “Some examples sent thus labelled, to 
illustrate the cross combinations of character. Here we have the less 
lobed leaves of ozyacanthoides combined with the pubescent calyx of 
arpa or monogyna, the styles being single or double or forked. In 
Other instances, the deeply lobed or incised leaves of the latter accompsny 
the glabrous ealyx or the double styles of the former. Are these hybrids ? 
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