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Dra URALIS IN Eipinpurcusuire. — In a recent visit to Glen 
Farg, I siilectad Draba muralis Li. in quantity ; the same plant is he 
weed in fields to the south of Edinbu bk There is no doubt t 
specimen collected ‘‘ about Edinburgh ” in 1889, and another from 
‘‘Arniston, Edinburgh’”’ (not dated) Ble the Herbarium of the 
Botanical Society of London.—Ep. Journ. Bor z.| 
Tracopocon pratensis L. var. GRANDIFLORUS.—In a note on this 
plant in this Journal for 1899 (p. 842) I omitted to add that the 
name var. Symei in the London Foccmag? ed. 9, is synonymous with 
T. pratensis ae var. grandiflorus Syme, HK. B, ed. 8, v. 189 (1866).— 
Artur Brn 
Sympuyrum patens Sibth.— May I be allowed to say that my 
note we this plant (Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 116) was published under 
a misapprehension that came about as follows:—A strange Comfrey 
had been brought to me from Bath, and shortly thereafter I saw 
find a name for these specimens, I turned to E. B. — ili., and 
found my plant well coe ed as S. officinale var. ns Sibth. 
Having no suspicion f the accuracy of this figure, me “publish ed 
the note in question, og did not become aware till long afterwards 
that I had been misled, and that patens was probably a trivial 
variation hardly gue of a name. The dra ughtsman for KE. 
ust have had the wrong Symphytum before him, or the drawin 
was mislabelled, for ae it nor the Bath plant with the characters 
I mentioned (still + cecal can have anything to do with S. offici- 
nal ames W. Wut 
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Tae long ns which sabereapioy the progress o of the cies 
ae oras edited at Kew seems to have give place to a gra 
Labiata by Mr. J. G. Baker, one genus of the former order (Cyclo- 
cheilon) being undertaken by Dr. Stapf. It would not be possible 
in these pages to review the whole of the work; but we propose to 
make a few notes on one a genney which may be taken as an example 
of the treatment of the 
e outset, eae we maT be allowed to express regret 
that a considerable amount of synonymy must result from the 
seston in this instalment of a raat number of Welwitsch’s plants 
