PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA AND ITS EUROPEAN FORMS, 888 
This is conflicting and sare gate We want to know 
whether these oe — e all the same thing; are they 
different from one another ? tes nie really distinct from rotundi- 
orld will be p 
vasa on in the height of the plank size of the leaves (6’” i 
diameter! to 36’ !), their shape at the base Cencpiieig = sondaia), 
and the size of the flowers. Of course specimens from the shores 
of the arctic seas he specimens from damp woods will show great 
differences ; ne of the flower in the former Sit ec 
s sariboe are not good material to deal with pane given 
jit dvsied examples of P. rotundifolia, media, and minor, they 
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lost in drying :—Style rosy-purplish, shading into purple just 
below the stigma; stigma deep purple. Anthers yellow to orange- 
yellow; filaments white. Sepals subparallel for half their length ; 
many they are fringed at the apex, or slightly jagged; others are 
subentire, yellowish white (contrasting in this with the much purer 
white of the petals), paler than as figured in Eng. an. Pedicels 
the ¢ 
the calyx-segme 
nearly entire pee subobtuse. The filaments, stamens, and styles 
are what is called ‘‘drusy” in min ence a.é., in wie crystal- 
like papilla, which extend to the i shar surface of the ls. 
Now this, so far as one can contrast it with dried 2a iat is 
pretty fairly intermediate between — and the var. arenaria, 
perhaps on the whole bearing towar e first. I have not seen a 
specimen —— by Dr. Alefeld, but, icaming to his drawing of his 
intermedia, it seems to me that it is not exactly this Guernsey 
plant; and he dott under rotundifolia that he has seen three from 
Guernsey. And I think I am right in saying there is only the one 
station known in Guernsey; anyhow, Mr. Marquand (Flora of 
Guernsey, 1891) gives no other. 
Yet it would appear that ae W. J. Hooker did see something in 
Hooker as ‘‘ P. rotundifolia var. squamosa Hook. M8.” hough 
I have looked through all the rotundifolia at Kew, I did not 
i these peystrge £ as I want to see similar ones in the 
Sresh state. I have seen or possess specimens of the arenaria from 
all the recorded stations, but here again I want to see fresh 
Lancashire specim 
I trust that ity y botknink who has the opportunity of gathering 
any of the British plants I have named will carefully examine 
