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SurREY Puants.—A slender plane-leaved form of Reseda lutea 
from Worm’s Heath seems to be the var. pulchella J. Mill. I 
agrees fairly well with the figure of R. gracilis (= var. pulchella) 
in Reichenbach’s Icones. Silene dubia, scarce or extinct else- 
where in the county, has existed fod some fog past on a gravelly 
bank near the Thames at Kingston. In this Journal (1910, 
p. 164) Mr. F. N. Williams has mar the occurrence of a 
straw-coloured form of Lathrea Squamaria at Harefield, Middlesex. 
A similar very pretty form rg would best be described as cream- 
coloured has recently been seen near Woldingham, where it 
Longs year after year, nneooompantedl by the ahaa coloured 
plant. Another colour variation, Lamiwm purpureum with white 
Rowers, grows at Effingham, and seems quite a sehen paeiahre 
from the typical sew as, in my garden, this form has reproduced 
itself for some years now, and maintains its pure white Np or 
An Orchis, growing i‘ Ockham, has been accepted b 
as his O. pretermissa. It grows in company with O. latifolin 
and I can only differentiate it from this latter by the unspotted 
hooded leaves. In the same neighbourhood grows ips is, 
I believe, Mr. Druce’s conception of the Linnean O. incarnaia. 
The Marsh Orchis of Wimbledon Common that has tasted from 
different experts the names of incarnata and latifolia is Orchis 
pretermissa. Calla palustris in recent years has flourished ex- 
ceedingly at its locality at Wisley, and in 1914 was quite a 
feature of the —— vegetation there, sees profusely in 
July.—C. E. Britt 
LAMPYRUM PRATENSE L. var. puRPUREUM C. J. Hartm.— 
The first description of this occurs in Hartman’s Svensk och 
Norsk excurs.-fl. 1846, p. 86— purpw pasbonnisls corolla dark red with 
lip flame-coloured ; (Be ‘the second edition (1853), p. na its 
ow. 
the same diagnosis is found, except that the word “lower 
added before “lip.” As faras Britain is concerned, this i tee 
coloured Cow-wheat seems decidedly rare. The firs igs eee rted 
station was the Outer Hebrides, where Mr. W. S. cine 
it at Ullaval, N. Harris, at an elevation of 1000 ft., in 1896, iad 
sent specimens to Mr. A. Bennett, who recorded it in Ann. Scot 
Nat. Hist. 1905, p. 170. Messrs. J. A. Wheldon and A. Wilson 
gathered what was evidently the same plant in Glen Eunach, at 
2400 ft., and Glen Feshie, at 2200 ft., in Hasterness ae -c. 96), in 
1909. (Bot. Ex. Club Report, 1909, p. 467.) In July, 1913, 
when staying at Fortingal, Perthshire, Mr. D. A. Haggart handed 
gathered a short time previously on Schiehallion, in the sa 
county, where it grew, he told me, in a ee on the north as e 
an elevation of about 2900 ft. Th t feature of this 
plant is, of course, the coloured pel which Messrs. Wheldon 
and Wilson describe as “ egre with a rich A pela or magenta,” 
or, as Mr. Haggart described it, “ yellow with purple lips.” Th 
Rey. E. S. Marshall remarks (Bot. Ex. Club He ley that thie 
