WATSON BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 189 
Report is as usual edited by Mr. George Goode; the 
distribution of —r s this year has been made by Mr. ies 
Litt ttle, of Cro "Hitel in, in whom we have an impor 
accession to the ake of British botanists, Stathes as 5 
or collector—excellence in one of these ca pacities does not 
Pama imply SB in the other. is long note on 
ust, 16 
a =) say Spar’ tina, noe Spart Mr. Little has numerous 
n Hrophila; with Mr. * Marshall and Mr. Wheldon as 
co- pee it seems likely ‘that the segregates of this pretty little 
plant sis be thoroughly worked out. 
Among the notes contributed by ech in mech genera may 
be mentioned those of Dr. Drabble on the Nominium Section of 
Viola, Major Wolley-Dod and Mr. Ratelay on Roses, Mr. Rogers 
on Rubi, Messrs. Marshall and Linton on one nic age and 
Carices ; comments by the two last-named, Mr. C. E. Salmon, and 
Mr. Little are scattered through the Report. "Aatoiiy the ong st 
and most interesting of the notes on individual plants are those 
on Potentilla mixta, Melampyrum pratense var. ericetorum, Vicia 
. an 
been young! Dr. Moss has numerous interesting observations, 
especially upon Salicornia; we note that the amiability of the 
editor of the Report allows him to run counter to almost universal 
custom and the International Rules by spelling proper names 
without capitals—e. g. “smithiana”: an idiosyncrasy which we 
demands more space than can be wet here, but which may be 
discussed more fully later, is js tiutonbol by Mr. Marshall’s remark 
446) that “Rouy places . as his a. [of Circea 
lutetianal, hla ntly pernreetr Fag t to be the normal plant” 
and Dr. s’s naming 57) ie sessiliflora Salisb. 
* “@. anes var. genuina”’ are each of these cases it w 
seem that the page rm oh ceased to exist, its pines 
being — by a trino 
We are inclined to (sank (as indeed i : sometimes admitted to 
be the ands, see pp. 450, 451) that in certain instances the 
specimens submitted to the referees as "sdentical must represent 
different forms : ¢ é.g. what Mr. Little, who collected it, describes 
as “a narrow 
small flowers” of Ranunculus mmula, appears to Mr. C. E 
han usual,” while Mr. Marshall places it under var. radicans, “but 
not extreme,’ and Mr. Jackson identifies it with var. pseudo- 
