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The Edinburgh plant is certainly an intermediate form between 
H. Pilosella and H. stoloniflorum ; and were I compelled to place 
H. Pilosella, with which it agrees in the pubescence, the shape of the 
fruiting receptacle, and the size of the flowers. H. stoloniflorum has 
far fewer short gland-tipped hairs and more numerous long bristly 
spreading hairs on the scape, and especially on the phyllaries, than the 
Edinburgh plant. The flowers are smaller, and even on the primary 
stem collected into small corymbs at the extremity of the branches of 
the scape. eaves are thinner in texture and clothed with more 
Carduus nutanti-crispus, Syme, E. B., edition 3. “ A series of 
hybrids between C. nutans and O. crispus, growing in a pasture with 
lants of the two species, near Elburton, Devon."—T. R. ARCHER 
s 
when growing there may have been a difference which has disapy 
in the dried plant. It is certainly not the Essex plant described in the 
glish Bota nutanti-crispus, the C. New- 
bouldi of the London Catalogue, 6th edition. Hybrids sometimes incline 
o one parent than the other. The Essex plant is as nearly half 
ay be. 
Carduus nutanti-tenuiflorus ?— By the sea under the Hoe at Ply- 
mouth.” —F, O. BaLkwiLL. A curious plant differing from C. tenut- 
with white like those of Silybum Marianum. A. " 
ler, sp. ?—“ I have sent a few specimens of an Aster which is appareu 
not unlikely to become established on the banks of the Itchen an 
Smaller streams below Winchester. The specimens were gathered 1n 
__* Mr. O. H. Watson informs me he has à cultivated specimen, named H. 
stoloniferum, from Dr. Grenier, identical with the Edinburgh eE E 
