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in a hedge of a meadow nearer Blackdown. Some of the plants 
were six feet high, and formed a conspicuous object from a 
considerable cai A plant or two were also noticed nearer 
near Farrington Gurney. A damp meadow adjoining was 
bedecked with the common Agrimony, with its rosettes of short 
leaves when growing in the open; but there was no sign there of 
odorata, which prefers bushier places. A, odorata is a more distinet 
plant than I formerly thought; but the descriptions in several 
English floras are not so satisfactory as e.g. that in the Flore de 
la Suisse by Schinz & Keller, who a out that the resinous 
lands on the ar te and leaves [and calyx] of odorata are often 
distinctly peduncled, and that occasionally A. Eupatoria has a few 
scattered but sessile glands of a similar character. After examina- 
tion of many specimens I find this to be true. In Coste’s Flore 
de la France there are excellent figures of both plants, but he 
omits the fact that occasionally minute "geste glands are 
found on the leaves of the common speci o me the most 
constant detingulieg feature of i See is the shallow rudi- 
mentary furrows of the matured calyx, isbaina nee extend the 
whole length as in 4. Hupatorta.—H. 8. THompson. 
re ge ce stricta var. Hooxert.—This interesting, and 
it would seem endemic, plant has been sent me from Nayland 
Hundred, West Norfolk, by Mr. Robinson. The specimens are 
as 
DioTis MARITIMA. ae Davey s Flora “sg septiester this is said 
fo be extinct, but while botanizing at Par ugust in company 
with M hu SG “aises looking over the many good things 
found at the harbour, we went on to the git by get Euphorbia 
Paralias, and were one enough to come upon Dioéis in 
full flower. It was last i dame from Par ands, near Penzance, 
in 1881 by Marquand, ‘a small flowerless specimen only two or 
three inches high.” oA is interesting to note its recurrence after 
so many years.—W. 
Contour OF MERCURIALIS PERENNIS. —Will some one 
