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is meant radical leaves. There is another point in the constitution 
of this plant, its extreme fragility; as it grows up in the spring, 
unless it can find something to support it, the first high wind lays 
it flat; not so with @. Lachenalii and pimpinelloides. And both 
the radical and the lowest spring leaves are very thin and delicate. 
ave dried as many of these autumnal leaves as my plant would 
afford, for the Exchange Club.—Arruur Bennett. 
Papaver Ruaas var. strigosum Boenn.—Mr. H. N. Dixon’s two 
interesting notes (Journ. Bot. 1892, 809; 1898, 810) upon the 
eeming inconstancy of this variety suggest a query which it might 
be worth trying to answer. Are these results obtained from seeds 
others of the same variety ? have always seen this variety 
b ; 
. I would 
should be fertilized with pollen of the same variety, and the seeds 
produced from these used for a further trial. The same course 
might also be taken to prove the constancy or otherwise of the var. 
Pryortt.—Ricnarp F, Townprow. 
Rusvs sreotasmis Pursh mw Kenr (p. 188), —I was pleased to 
see a note by Dr. Masters upon the abundance of this Rubus at 
and near Sandling Park, Hythe. In Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 251, will 
be found a note by myself suggesting the possibility of the plant 
having originally escape the well- h 
, it did not occur so abundantly as at the Sandling Woods 
below. It bears the local name of the “ Woodman’s Rose,”—J. 
Cosmo MELyitu. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
American NoMENCLATURE AGAIN. 
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River, By Conway Macmrinan, State Botanist. Reports of 
the Survey, Botanical Series. I, Dec. 29, 1892, Minne- 
apolis. 8vo, pp. ix, 825. 
Tae Metasperme are ‘otherwise called Angiospermm,” and 
are on the whole better known under that name, The volume 
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