354 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
therefore cannot be referred to C. oxyacanthoides var. macrocarpa 
Heg. Unfortunately the late frosts this year nipped the young 
foliage and flowers, so that the May specimens are not good or 
characteristic. Description :—Leaves glabrous, yellowish green, 
rather large, often with subentire sides, and cut at the top into 
three or more shallowish-lobed segments. In the younger and 
€ more entire, they may be even slightly in Sur ved. The 
leaves of the young shoots have distinctly forntve d venation. The 
calyx is hairy in the flowering stage, but becomes nearly Se sae 
in the fruiting condition. The flowers are aint conspicuously larger 
than the type. They are one-styled, and the style is erect, or nearly 
so. ‘The fruit is twice the size of that of the normal hawt pore and 
colour; they are one-stoned. The variety grows as a small ree 
about fifteen. feet high, and is less thorny than usual. The con- 
rest of the hedge has been layered.”—G. Crarmcz Druce 
a. = ee mae Druce does not say ‘ mihi,’ but I ‘presume 
. Ben 
a OXxyYAcaNTHA ar s. This monogynous plant, 
with large leaves of a greyish green colour, having the veins de- 
finitely recurved and small one-styled fruit, grew on the borders 
of Bucks, near Woodperry, Oxon, August, 1905. —G. Cranmer 
Drvucz. “Ido not know this. I suppose ‘ ae tig as with the 
last, but if so it should have been expressed.” . Bennett. ‘1 
can see no reason for calling this a eT even _ Eforms 
No flower or a, present on the specimen seen by me.” 8. 
se r 
Formby, ‘8. Tiaie: August, 1905. This promises to beco at an 
ron or drained and converted into colt Loh Themes Ps now 
only one or two very limited « mre ” in which it flourishes, and 
which may be invaded at any tim Mere 
Potreonum mite Schrank. Es Common, Oxon; growing 
with P. minus and P, Persicaria, October, 1905. "Not quite ‘typical, 
and =_ possibly be a hybrid of P. minus with P. Persicaria 
specimens of P. minus are also sent from the same locality. —G. C. 
a: ‘Merely a state of mite, and | srg answer to any of 
the forms described by Saelan.”—Ar. Benn: 
