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believe this to be what Hedlund calls Sorbus Aria sensu stricto.— 
A. L edlund must not be pean as pronouncing this to be 
S. Aria sensu stricto. He now (Dec. 1909) writes that he has 
never seen S. Aria sensu stricto from Britain.—A. Ley. ine 
lines later we read, of another form of S. Aria:—‘“ I believe this 
to be equivalent with plants sent to Prof. Hadad? in 1908, and 
pronounced by him to be ‘Sorbus Aria sensu stricto.’ AUGUSTIN 
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The following are selected from the more interesting notes: 
“ Cerastiwm arvense L. var. Andrewsii Syme. Limestone slipes 
of Capennaieling: Co. Clare, June, 1909. Differs from the ordinary 
Midland plant by being greener, rigid and brittle, and the leaves 
es nee. recurved. It. resembles Ee iooallty sent b 
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typical form b all intermedial stage iG C. Druce. ‘It is 
much more glabrous than the usual Gerind, and though the calyx 
and stem are both slightly hairy, yet the hairs are very short, and 
on the latter os i Eng. Bot. ii. p. 89. How can this apply 
as the normal drt the s certainly are less so — usual, 
and do answer fairly well tia, sie to say, Linn l 
ed. i. 1, 428, 1753, says, ‘ folii ari-lanceolatis pe glabris. 
mens do come os a pork merican form, C. arvense var. 
oblongifoliwm, n. (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xiv. 1887, p. 74, 
t. 68), Hollich and Britton. Of the smaller forms described under 
that as f. Serpentina, these specimens seem to accord fairly well. 
The authors reduce Dr. Torrey’s C. oblongifolium, Fl. Pree 
460 = Fl. New York, i. 99, to the above variety. Then again 
these specimens are Bonds 3-5-flowered. Syme’s plant usually 
1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered—A. Benyerr. It seems likely that 
doubtless due to exposure on limeston > paises 8. HALL. 
specimens are abundantly pubescent and several-flowered (except- 
ing one small ast so if should say iki is nobhing more than the 
type.—H. W. P 
* Vicia sehen L. var. condensata Druce in eee 1884, 
pp. 85, 86, and Rep. of Bot. Hach. Club, _ 
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across; the aah were ae in texts often open and ssn’ 
than the type, the flowers were in subcapitate racemes of 
and darker co loured flowers. I am trying to grow it to see if the 
rs persist. August, 1909. It occurred also on the Kirk- 
