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Persoon in Usteri’s Ann. Bot. xiv. 38 (1795), is not retained in his 
Synopsis fap # in Index Kewensis it is united with V. precox 
All., from which and from V. ocym — Bei in his : 
paar distinguished it.—Ep. Journ. 
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PoLYGALA DUNENSIS (p. 250).—Mr. Wheldon’s note called to 
my mind Mr. E. G. Baker's interesting report rds . Bot. 1896, 
p. 399) upon Mr. T. Hilton’s Sussex “ P. ciliata,” which Prof. 
Chodat had examined and aeons send in va parts” with 
P. dunensis Dum. This is, = the first mention of this 
plant as an inhabitant of Brita 
few years ago Prof. Garbiste examined some sheets of 
Polygala I sent him, and he identified the following :— 
P. dunensis Dum. Sussex, E.; Downs between Hodshrove 
and Bevendean, 1900, T. Hilton. Sussex, W.; Graffham Down, 
1901, C.H.S. Durham; ch Gill, Teesdale, 1898, H. T. Mennell. 
Vat. ciliata (Lebel) C Susse E.; Downs, Pal 
1900, 7. Hilton. Near Bright. 1904, C. H. 8. Sussex, W.; 
Barlavington and Graffham Downs, set C. 
P. dubia Bellynck. a rae etley Wood, near Battle, 
1894, H. S. d C. BH. S. Sus iW Heysh “ie Down, 1901, 
.H. 8. Kent, E.; roadside near i: Mine. 1900, C. #. S. Bu 
below Ivinghoe Beacon, 1904, C. #. s. Glamorgan, limestone 
coast, Porthcawl to Sker, 1901 (Ref. No. 2544), H. S. Marshall. 
Sutherland; the links, Dornoch, 1907, &. S. Standen 
Under P. dunensis may also go, without much doubt, a plant 
I gathered in 1909 in No rfolk, W., between Wells and Ho 
m 
determined as P. dubia had been “ doing duty” as “ P. oxyptera 
Rehb.” in my herbarium, a plant which spi cs does not 
admit into his Flora of Normandy.—C. E. 
GAULTHERIA SHALLON Pursh. —Lieutenant A. 5. Marsh sent 
gathered on Leith Hill, Surrey, last midsummer. e plant was 
recorded from the same locality in this Journal for year 
250). Mr. Marsh adds that the plant was growing on sandy 
vated in En ciear if not, I su ad it edi be virtually an 
outcast of a garden or have been intentionally introduced. The 
a hypothesis is ieeinbis, for Lindley °y (Bot. Reg. t. 1411) expresses 
“hope that this plant may one day become useful as a covert 
