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332 NOTES ON SOME SCANDINAVIAN PLANTS. 
Copenhagen, where in places difficult of access it forms neat handsome 
bushes, very characteristic from their great corymbs of rather small 
crowded heads, the involucres white with the dense cobweb-like tomen- 
tum which covers them. There are plenty of good characters for this 
i tomen- 
corolla affords the best in its large rounded glandulose swelling 
at the upper part, and its dilated base which becomes accrescent with 
ossess a spec e true plant from the Botanic Garden, 
and it is stated on good authority (see Watson’s ‘ Compendium,’ p , 
that the late r brought it there from Bagley Wood in the 
neighbourhood. Mr. Hemsley has also recorded it from Winchelsea, 
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in Herb. Borrer is, Mr. Baker tells me, only eu-minus. : 
said to be, therefore, no evidence of this species having been found in 
About Copen agen grew also 4. majus, 4. intermedium, Lange}, and 
a form of 4. minus with large heads. A plant found very sparingly (at 
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but in other respects near the latter may have been a hybrid. 
Verbascum thapsiforme, Schrad. This has been anonymously recorded 
365). Dr. Boswell 
is the hybrid Thapso-lychnitis, (Eng. Bot. vol. vi. pp. 117, 187), and 
whether dicem other than that has occurred in the county must remain 
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hybrid between R. Friesii and R, conglomer t pernap 
sidered as lending some probability to that view, that a similar suggestion 
was made by Mr. Varren ; indeed the first-sight resemblance to R. com- 
glomeratus, along with which it grows at Putney, is very striking. 
* It is satisfactory to have the corroborati imony on this | 
oswell Syme, to whom Mr. Warren sent ierat nd xd says that he has rO 
doubt they are the R. obtusifolius of Swedish botanists, being precisely similar A 
s pint from Upsala in Ahlberg’s collection, which is growing in the garden 
almuto, raised from the seed of the dried specimen, — I have already alluded (P. 
309) to Ahlberg's Upsala plant, which seems to me less typical sylvestris than 
e Surrey specimens. agains pis 
bridity alluded to 
hs. 
above. 
