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PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA AND ITS EUROPEAN FORMS. 
By Arruur Bennert, F.L.S. 
Tus summer, Mr. Marquand was kind enough to send me 
some fresh specimens of Pyrola rotundifolia L. from Guernsey. The 
examination of these in the light of one observation made by Dr. 
Boswell (Syme) (Bot. Ex. Club Report for 1881, p. 58) on specimens 
sent by Mr. Sunderland from “The Grande Mare” as ‘? arenaria” 
—“arenaria I think, J. T. Boswell,”—led me to look up the refer- 
ences to the Lancashire, Scottish, and other plants that have passed 
under various names in our Floras. So far as I can find, no other 
botanist seems to have considered the Grande Mare plant other than 
rotundifolia, 
Th 
variety since 1846, as on the 12th November in that year 
attention to a paper by Planchon in the Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles (Ser. 8, xviii. 379), where Planchon identifies the plant 
name. But Nyman seemed to consider there were two plants 
under these names, as he hag «P, serotina Mleq. = y. arenaria”’ ; 
and gives “ P. maritima Kenyon (Angl., Belg.),” and localises the 
all, Batav. Ins. Nordern.” I have seen 
pplied to several Scottish botanists for specimens of 
, hear of none such, neither 
do any of the Botanical Guides Suggest such stations 
Another plant was sent to Sir W. J. Hooker (P. 
| hytologist, 1.¢.), 
“gathered on the Yorkshire coast, and since found pg. 
