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808 PRODUCTION OF HYBRIDS IN THE GENUS EPILOBIUM. 
green, lanceolate, glabrous, under an inch. Petals — 
yellowish red, twice as long as the sepals. Stamens and stigma 
a up to the tip of the petals—A garden plant of which I do 
xact station. It differs from all the other Newmannias 
ot know the e 
i its bright-coloured flowers 
ON THE PRODUCTION a epee IN THE GENUS 
EPI OBILUL M., 
By T. R. Arcuer Brices, F.L.S. 
Oxservations for many hgh past of the Epilobia growing about 
Plymouth have convinced me that hybrids are frequently produced 
between several of the species wot this Bens and I mentioned the 
. subject in my ‘Flora of Plymouth’ (p. 154*). Sometimes the 
strikingly di 
artially siatiped its features on a hybrid production. From the 
ess obvious differences between /. montanum and FE. lanceolatum, 
or E. lanceolatunm and E. obscurum, admixtures between these have 
oe always as clearly eee i ~gaicchansgh 
Some bo tanis ts seem an to ignore as much as possible the 
or even  prébebil ty, ak “their temp discovered in certain others 
Many years ago Schultz called attention to plants which he pire 
sidered to be the offspring of acs obscurum and E. palustre, 
and of E. montanum and E. palustre 
This past summer I have been g0 fortunate as to meet with a 
hybrid between the strikingly dissimilar e-muee ies, FE. hirsutum and 
E. montanum. It formed a patch, iu any stems from the root, 
n top of a hedge-bank by a damp lane Py Shalaford, Egg Buck- 
land, South Devon, about four 8 from Plymouth, and was 
growing near both E. hirsutum and F. montanum. The following is 
a brief description of this plant —Root- stock oo somewhat 
creeping from the number of the stems; stem round, 2-8 ft. high, 
upper part with woolly hairs; leaves lanconkie:- serrate, sessile ; 
buds nodding or erect; flowers cgi again as EH’, montanum, 
deep purple. Differs from F. hir oe n the much more glabrous 
surface of the whole plant, the broader aud shorter a smaller 
owers, and partially nodding flower-buds. ers from E. mon- 
tanum in the habit of growth, many, ae nieasine from the 
root-stock ; in the more  tadnehed and more hairy stem; longer, 
narrower, ‘and more sharply serrate leaves; larger flowers, of a 
deeper purple in ype sg in the downy or shortly hairy pods. 
It was in full flower at the beginning of the month of August, 
when I found it. I forward a couple of specimens for the Herbarium 
of the British Muse 
* [See also ‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1880, p. 284.—Ep. Journ. Bot.] 
