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Wight, and cultivated in her garden in 1892, although the leaves 
are not quite so sharply and regularly cut as in my plant from 
Alderney and Guernsey coopha atta in this Journal, 1907, p. 423.— 
Lithospermum officinale L. pseudo-latifolium C. E. Salmon. 
The Hanger, Selborne, C. om Poiue er, 1890.— Malva moschata L. 
var. Ramondiana Gren. & ca = integrifolia Lej. & Court. The 
Lithe, Selborne, C. H. Palmer, Aug. 1882. Miss Palmer’s her- 
Rosa SHERARDI Davies.—Mr. F. J. Wiltshear in his ore 
note (Journ. Bot. p. 353) says that ‘this name was allowed t 
lapse both by British and Continental authors until it was eine 
by the Rev. A. Ley in this Journal in 1907, p. 207.” It will, 
however, be found in my Flora of alates p. 198, 1897, where 
I showed that it had precedence of Smith s subglobosa. 
REPIS BIENNIS L.—This, like its Selatan C. taraxacifolia 
. 1s an ea aretid colonist. It is a most pontplouns feature 
of the gone: between Swindon and Badminton in Gloster and 
Wi bie as my west as Co. Clare in ‘One 
Try. x Opiz var. SPATHULATUS Opiz (p. 384).—Only 
the Daitet locality belongs be the variety, the Shue localities are 
or T. beets 
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by Reichenbach n (le Fl. Germ. et Helv. xxiv. p. 43), in which it is 
said to be copa rnay ats x maritimus, Haussknecht (in Mitt. 
Geogr. Ges. Thur 1885, p. 69), Beck (Fl. Nied. Oesterr. 319), 
and other suthorities The Rey. E. S. Marshall, however, doubts 
its being of hybrid origin. Ten or twelve years ago I saw 
ft. maritimus near Peterborough, but no limosus; this year only 
limosus was noticed in that vicinity—G. Cuaripce Druce 
Botanicat Excuance Cruss.—As the Secretary of the Wat- 
son Botanical Exchange Club, may I say that the statement 
d Mr. i 
eighty spikes out of fully two hundred that he saw growing, and 
that these he carefully cut off with scissors. It is regrettable 
that so many were taken, but according to Mr. Jackson’s own 
page aie harm has been ¢ lone. Ina letter I have by me, 
eeniek they were carefull cut amt not pulled out of the 
sheaths.” The spikes were cut, as the member states, and as is 
shown by the specimens on sheets I have seen. Mr. Jackson 
had the plants by him for several months, and could easily have 
ascertained these facts. Still it must not be thought that the 
Club in any way encourages the destruction of rare plants, or 
