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common on the Continent, this form has ase been. esc in 
Britain.””’ On the 18th af August last, I met with a very f 
plants of a Leontodon in a meadow by the Avon, zi Dipthod South 
Devon, which at first much puzzled me, as although their 
appearance generally was that of the Leontodon idee L., they 
yet lacked the long hairs I had always seen on this ~~ being 
a quite glabrous or‘else having only very short hair 
turning to Bor reau’s ‘ Flore du Gettes de la France’ I found yen 
to isis with his description of Leontodon hastilis, the plant referred 
to by Dr. Boswell in the words cahier above. I now do not nen 
over position is aed 6 their being 
associated there with Plantago media, a specie own elsewhere 
hbourhood, and al; he certainly alien Trifolium 
hybridum. Possibly, however, now this plant has been introduced 
it will become established in sina locality, as others of the — 
Crepis taraxacifolia and C. biennis, have done elsewhere in Devon 
—T. R. Arcuzr Brices 
Zxtvacts and Notices of Books and Memoirs. 
ON THE COLOURS OF SPRING FLOWERS.* 
By Aurrep W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. 
S$ paper was an attempt to explain the prevalence of ogee 
"at een in cia flowers, as contrasted with those of autumn an 
summer. The common spring flowers of England were cea 
as 64, and these were included, as regards colour, under five 
heads, viz., (1) white, (2) green, (8) yellow, (4) red and pink, 
(5) blue and violet. The proportion was found to be as follows :— 
white 26, or 40°5 p.c.; ae 9. onde tk "yellow 13, or 
20°3 p.c.; red and pink 5, or 7:8 p.c.; blue and violet 11, or 
17°4 p.c. The chief feature in n this table is the great preponderance 
presence ig ph ot peer sn be that the bright-eoloured 
bccn Leet nem 
act of a Paper read on September 2nd, 1881, at the Meeting of the 
British poe at York. P 
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