826 SOME BRITISH POTENTILLA-HYBRIDS. 
Common and Sharpnage Well, Ley ¢ Purchas; near Penteloe Brook, 
Woolhope, Ley ¢ Puwrchas. Pembrokeshire :—St. Issel’s, near 
Tenby, Purchas. W. Kent:—Hedgebank between Cranbrook and 
Bedgebury, Marshall, E. Kent :—Dry clayey bank in a meadow 
outside Chiddenden Woods, towards Tenterden, Marshall. Surrey :— 
Clayey bank, between Witley and Grayswood, Marshall (this is the 
plant mentioned in B. FZ. C. Report for 1892). 
: - procumbens x Tormentilla (P. suberecta Zimmeter). Stafford- 
shire :—On a walled bank at the Railway Station, Rocester; between 
the Railway Station and the Hotel, Rudyard; between Reap’s 
oor and Longuor; between Alstonefield and Longuor; all Purchas. 
Derbyshire :—Bradley, W. R. Linton. Herefordshire :—Near Gar- 
way Hill, 1850, Purchas ¢ Lingwood. Brecknockshire :—Llanwrtyd, 
urchas. §. Devon:—Hedgebank by Cann Plantation, between 
Colebrook and Shaugh, Archer Briggs (this closely approaches 
P. procumbens, for which it was gathered). Ireland, Co. Down :— 
Dry hedgebanks, Newtonbutler, 1849, Dr. hew. 
_ P. reptans x Tormentilla (P. italica Lehm. 1849, P. Gremlii 
Zimm. 1884, P. adscendens Gremli), Surrey :—Roadside near 
Grayswood, Witley, 1887, Marshall. E. Kent :—Clayey ride in 
Chiddenden Woods, Marshall. The specimens are somewhat young, 
in this case, and procumbens x reptans is a possible alternative ; but 
they seem to be better named as above. The hybrid has not pre- 
aware; but it can hardly be very scarce, haying regard to the 
— frequency and wide distribution of procumbens Xx rep- 
ans, 
It may be useful to translate Dr. Focke’s descriptions and 
remarks (/.¢. pp. 820-1) ; premising, however, that (as he indeed 
{ itu e allowed in dealing with such 
variable forms as hybrids eens assume, Specimen-matching 
uch :— 
- P. procumbens x Tormentilla. . . - Stem hardly rooting, 
loosely panicled above ; lower stem-leayes shortly stalked, upper not 
stalked ; stipules more or less deeply inci 
nen as im ee procumbens; pollen wi 
ult mostly abortive. Connecting the + i inter- 
NE ay cr & the two species by many inter 
- + « « Often very like P. procumbens; 
stem long, creeping, and often rooting ; leaves stalked, 8-5-nate ; 
leaflets more glabrous and often larger than in P. procumbens; 
stipules ovate-lanceolate, entire, or with soli 
pa pap flowers showy ; pollen containing but few well-developed 
sionally undivided, enerally 
rather strongly incised; pollen with many normal pei fruit 
pot rare. ‘This form igs very like procumbens x Tormentilla. P. 
ormentilla and P. reptans as a rule grow in different situations; 
