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the sweet white violets. As it has this spring been found by Miss 
Peck in Devon on sandstone, it is possible that search may reveal 
it elsewhere.—Mary A. G. Livert. 
concluded was the same as my plant as S. Kali L. var. Tragus L. 
Recently Mr. T. Hilton has shown me this plant, which is probably 
think, an alien. said, it is a tall, slender plant, without 
prickles, quite unlike S. Tragus. Mr. Hilton thinks the locality 
for my plant should be Shoreham, not the adjoining Southwick.— 
G. C. Druce. 
RBAREA STRICTA Fries.—The name stricta was first given 
to this plant (teste J. G. Baker in Phytologist, N.S. i. p. 327, 
1855-6), by Fries (Swmma Vegetabiliwm, i. p. 146) in 1819. Nine 
years later in the editio altera of the Novitie Flore Suecice Fries 
original name of the species. It was first recorded as British by 
county in 1878.—G. Craripez Druce 
Lataraa Squamarra L.—At Harefield, Middlesex, on April 
23rd, the Rev. J. Roffey found straw-coloured plants of this 
species, growing with the normal purplish plant—here parasitic 
