366 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
structura hodie persistens; adeoque tantillum distincta.” The 
arrangement by Grenier and Godron under P. alba Pallas, which 
if inadmissible, was certainly convenient. Some of my specimens 
have their leaves entire save for ‘vo “teeth at the base of each upper 
one, and so correspond to a integrifolia Godr. ; whilst in others the 
stem-leaves are aay pinnatifid, with narrow segments, rae agree- 
ing with B pinnatifida Koch. The spikes are bigger and broader 
than in the common species, and are usually (but not always) 
exceeded by the narrow toothed floral leaves. ‘The flowers are 
large and ene red, not pure white, as are th etimes 
appendage too much bent. Although it follows the natural curve 
of the filament, the point of the appendage i in P, vulgaris is straight, 
and not directed downwards. In P. laciniata the appendage is 
strongly in a@ way as to make an angle of 40-4 
degrees in the fresh state, and to become in the dried plant almost 
vertically deflexed. Brand, in Koch’s Synopsis, ed. iii. p. 2149, 
records ar a of P. laciniata with both vulgaris and grandiflora, 
but I can find no mention of intermediates connecting the respec- 
tive pe 
Mr. Britten tells me that there is at South ac a ana in ~ 
British Herbarium, a small specimen —— P. alba from *‘ Hill a 
i i iles fro i 
oe p- 84, ae at the time was thought to have been introduced 
with foreign corn. I have been in communication with Mr. 
Wear r, and have learnt that three years ago he met with the same 
plant in Berkshire, two miles west of Reading, “in an undisturbed 
ugh pasture suggestive of enclosed common-land.” Mr. Druce 
rik accompanied Mr. Weaver to this locality, and — found the 
plant very sparingly near Tilehurst. The field w oe drier 
than when Mr. Weaver — visited it, but they fo nak the original 
patch, and also met with the plant in another portion of the “field 
which contained no roteotisant species. It was probably formerly 
part of 
Iam much indebted to Miss F. Cundall for the capital ae 
which has been reproduced; to Mr. Cedric Bucknall, wh 
helped me with camera lucida drawings; and to Mr. Britten for 
the Linnean quotations. 
Puate 4824.—1. Prunella laciniata, nat. size. 2. Calyx and but stamen 
of the same, x 4. 3. Calyx and longer stamen of P. vulgaris, x 
