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he described but did not name in a communication read before the 
Edinburgh Botanical Society, Dec. 8th, 1836 (printed in the First 
Annual Report of the Society, p. 42 (1841) ). He was in the Isle 
‘of Man 1834-6 and sent Watson a list of Manx plants for 
TL Me chaning Botany, but the little herbarium was probably 
* ; 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 17th, Dr. 
G. B. Longstaff exhibited some foxglove flowers from his g 
h 
of synanthy, and two Specimens with spirally twisted stems on 
June 19th (see Proc. Linn. Soe. 1912-13, pp. 66, 67). In 1914 
there was not such a large crop of foxgloves, and but two 
malformations were noticed: two spikes bearing synanthous 
i te 
these were saved, sown in a ox, and raised in a frame. 
synanthous flowers, some re ite, some dark t As 
the spikes had not all opened, and the plants were planted 
closely, it was difficult to count with certainty. Pr endy 
rec the exhibition on June 16th 1910, by C 
acnamara, of foxgloves grown by him at Chorley Wood, Herts, 
fo e eon “ Mutations in Foxglove Plants,’ read on 
y io 
November 16th, 1911 (see Proc. 1911-12, pp. 4-6), and claimed 
iss Saunders’s plants as descendants of these Hertfordshire 
foxgloves, 
Mr. G. S. Bouncer has published (Hiscoke & Son, Richmond, 
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