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were sown at Kew on July Ist. Only one plant germinated, but 
this shot up and flowered in a few weeks, proving it to be annual 
and also showing that it comes true from seed. This variety is 
not included in any of the recently issued British plant ei 
i t 
near gardens, H. C. Watson.” Smith ( ng. Flora i. p. 316) 
records this variety from Fincham, Norfolk, where it was found 
by the Rev. R. Forby, together with an intermediate form very 
faintly veined. Syme also gathered it at Portobello in Midlothian 
(Eng. Bot. ed. 3, vi. 106). here are also specimens at Kew 
and the British Museum from continental localities.—A. Bruck 
JACKSON. 
Tracorocon Hysrrp (p. 203).—Mr. A. Wallis asks me to put 
on record that he noted this hybrid in 1903 in an old clay-pit on 
the outskirts of Cambridge when botanizing with Mr. A. Welsh. 
The peculiar colour of the flower, recalling that of Medicago 
sylvestris, which is apparently a hybrid of the yellow falcata and 
purple sativa, attracted attention. The outer florets were a ve 
ight reddish b: i 
with very distinct green lines (as in porrifoliwm), the florets 
passing into green below and so to yellow at their base. The 
folium, and were more of the pratense type; the pappus was 
slightly tinged with reddish purple at the top, but not so strongly 
as in porrifolium, and no perfect seeds could be found.—C E. 
SALMON. 
1 ed) in my own 
and in a neighbour’s garden have been similarly affected. “What 
presume is a hybrid between Digitalis lutea (from Switzerland) 
a- D. o on m 
S. Kerry Prants (p. 227)—In my “Notes on South Ke 
_ Plants,” I said that Thymus and Steglingia are entirely sea 
