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SHORT NOTES, 
HELLEBORUS viripIs L.—I wish to enquire if anything is 
known of a form of Green Helehos in which the sepals are 
blotched with purple at their base. We have in the vicinity of 
Bristol a dozen or more stations for the plant, and in one of these 
only do I find the i wiley so marked. I have so far been unable 
to discover any reference to such a variation in the books I have 
consulted, including several Continental floras. The flowers are 
invariably described as pale green, simply. There is a consider- 
able quantity of the plant at the particular station, and the 
flowers are all marked in ee way, but in some the markings are 
darker than in others.— 
RuBuUs HOSTILIS ae & Wirtg. iv CuesnireE.—Mr. Moyle 
Rogers so names a pretty little bramble, found by Major A. H. 
Wolley-Dod and myself, last August, at ae v.-c. 58, and in 
eo hedges between there and Delam It does not seem 
to een previously known fash wth than v.-c. 
Cannes Mr. Rogers also identifies, from here, R. gratus Focke, 
for which he had only one Cheshire record. 2. Sprengelit Whe. 
is locally plentiful near the Mere.—Hpwarp S. MarsHA.u. 
REVIEWS. 
Practical Field Botany. By A. R. Horwoop, F.L.S. Illustrated 
with 20 plates and 26 figures in the text. Griffin’s Scientific 
Textbooks. ee Griffin & Co. 1914. Pp. xv. 193. 
ae a 8vo. oes net. 
guess to be meant for a : as my wife ea a 
‘mossy” saxifrage. It contains a large amount of useful in- 
formation, and is well he ey; th or has read 
many writers from whom he borrows: moreover, he has evidently 
done a good deal of sparioe work, both out of doors and indoors. 
Yet (I am sorry to have to say so) few botanical books that I 
have read have caused me so much irritation. Oddly enough, 
just as I was about to begin this review, a friend who is a@ ve 
fair all-round naturalist, and devoted to the study of wild flowers 
although not a collector, came in to see me; he had just bought 
a copy, and it had made almost exactly the same impression upon 
each of us. 
part, of “ sbeteal field bot fay: I have long thought that its 
importance, though considerable, has gee: terly been much ex- 
aggerated; and that its main value is rather educational and 
preparatory than intrinsic. In point of “tact, every intelligent and 
JournaL oF Borany.—Vou. 53. [Aprin, 1915.) K 
