152 SHORT NOTES. 
C. pilulifera, thus: ‘Obs. Le C. Bastardiana, DC., parait n’étre 
u’une déformation 4 écailles plus grandes, longuement acuminées 
et a fruits et étamines souvent remplacées par un Uredo” (p. 672, 
If Dr. Arnold Lees’s Yorkshire specimens of the variety 
are quite free from disease, it is remarkable that in the neighbour- 
hood of Plymouth disease in certain examples of C. pilulifera should 
lead to the production in them of points of agreement with that 
variety.—-T. R. Arcuer Brices. 
. Briggs has sent the specimens referred to in his note to 
the British Museum Herbarium, where I have had an opportunity 
of examining them. cannot, however, perceive any very great 
resemblance between them and (. pilulifera, var. Leesii; the lower 
ract, so remarkable in that variety, is in Mr. Briggs’s specimens 
the following is a copy :—‘ Bottisham Fen, opposite to the Knave 
in th 
generally assigned to it. Prof. Babington says, ‘ Near Stretham 
Moor Park popularly supposed to have been pollarded by Anne, 
Duchess of Monmouth, after the execution of her husband, were 
all Quercus pedunculata, Ehrh. Q. sessiliflora, Salisb., has been 
recorded in the ‘Flora Hertfordiensis’ from several localities, 
among others the “ woods by Pinner Lane;” and the late Rev. W. 
- Coleman, more than thirty years back, was at considerable pains 
to discriminate the two Hertfordshire forms, and would appear to 
have exhibited illustrative examples, with accompanying notes, at 
a meeting of the Hertford Horticultural Society in the autumn of 
1842. I have, however, examined Mr. Coleman’s original speci- 
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(This note and the following had been prepared by Mr. Pryor for this 
Journal, and were found among his paperi.—Ep. J Se ot] sae 
