;: 
162 eee Welec= bora 
Epipactis violacea. Cumberland. Bab. MS. Top. ‘Botany, 
p. 385. The records in Top. Botany must nearly all be verified 
again, as to what was intended. Mr. Watson makes the name 
violacea a synonym of &. media Bab. But how many of the 
counties produce the &. vzolacea Boreau it is impossible to say ; 
in fact our forms of Zpzpactzs need a careful revision. I quite 
agree with the remarks of the Rev. W. H. Purchas in the 
Journal of Botany, p. 201, 1885, where he expresses doubts of 
the Herefordshire plant being the same as the Yorkshire.* Of 
this I possess an original secanionoly and one can quite see why 
Prof. Babington named it £&. ovalzs (English Botany Supp. 
t. 2884). But to my eyes a large number of the specimens so 
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require special care to dry the flowers separate, and with not 
too much pressure. 
Potamogeton Zizii Roth. No doubt the Derwentwater 
record of P. ducens refers to this, as, I believe, Mr. Bailey so 
named the specimens when he gathered them; but it is given 
as Zisit in Top. Botany, ed. 2. 
Lastrea rigida. Mr. Hodgson mentions this, and numbers 
it, but gives no Coane and no remarks as to its introduction 
into the ‘ Flora. i 
There are some other species Seen for Cumberland not 
given by Mr. Hodgson; but as Mr. Watson does not admit _ . 
them in Top. Betas only in the ‘doubtful’ plants, they may 
well be left. 
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NOTES—BOTANY. : 
Lobelia Dortmanna in Lakeland.—<As the habitat of this beautiful | x 
coe is being discussed, I should like to say that I saw many specimens 
ge in Lake Windermere, between Bowood Hotel and Ambleside, in) 
the bahay ows. A was in July 1894.—W. A. SHUFFREY, Arncliffe Vicarage, * 
1899. 
Skipton, rst April 
Vern ese a names : shear ieee Hey, in his very interesting — 
paper on BS ames in use at t Ayton,’ says :—‘ Mr. Blakeborough, ~ 
in his new ar on North fan shies: informs us in the glossary under 
** Bullace” eat the Bullace is a wild Plum of a green colour when fr 
me they vy kmat to be purple black.’ It will interest Mr 
that the * Bullace ° here is as described by la rou 
t Seve th trees grow at Arncliffe Cote, between 
here and Kilnsey The Bullaces oe a ve ) ‘ 
ave seen a ‘purple black’ variety in Langstrothdale, but the tree was 
probably Prunus fruticans of Mr. 'r. Arnold Lees’ ‘Flora .of West 
Yorkshire,’ st ed., p. 785.—-W. A. SHUFFREY, Arncliffe Vicarage, Skipton, 
‘Ist rede 1899. 
* See also Flora of Herefordshire, se 298 (with plate), 1889. 
Naturalist, 
