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Sedum album L. vay. teretifolium Haw. Fishergate Cliffs, West 
Sussex, July, 1900.—T. Hilton. Correct. This seems like a native 
habitat, but the matter can only be decided locally. The species is 
a widely distributed native of the Continent, on rocks and stony 
ground, reaching as far as Normandy. It is also considered by 
Murray to be indigenous in a few localities in the Mendip Hills of 
Somerset.—S. T. D[unn]. 
Galium anglicum Huds. Between Seaford and Berwick, East 
Sussex, July, 1900. The occurrence of this species in the county 
is queried in Top. Bot., and the plant does not appear in Arnold’s 
Sussex Flora. First discovered here by the Rey. EK. Ellman. 
Inula britannica Iu. Shore of Cropston Reservoir, Leicester, 
Aug. 1, 1900. This plant, a native of Germany, first appeared at 
Cropston in 1894, when it was noticed by the Rev. T. A. Preston. 
It is now quite naturalized on the margin of the reservoir, and has 
increased in luxuriance. Probably introduced here by water-fowl. 
See B. E.C. Reports, 1894, p. 451, and 1895, p. 485.—T. A. Preston 
and A. B. Jackson. 
Matricaria discoidea LL. Casual, waste ground, Birkenhead, 
Liverpool, y.-c. 58, June 17, 1900.—J. A. Wheldon and A. B. . 
Jackson. Correct. Usually, as in this case, in waste ground, but 
occasionally well established in open turf, as on Kew Green. Where 
a footing has once been gained, it seems to spread rapidly to any 
dry newly-broken ground in the neighbourhood.—S. T. Dunn. 
Symphytum officinale L. var. patens (Sibth.). River Ksk, Mid- 
lothian, June 5, 1900. Colour variety of the type conforming to 
Sibthorp’s description in Fl. Oxon.—F. C. Crawford. As Mr. J. W. 
White has pointed out in Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 279, the figure in 
ng. Bot. ed. 8, does not represent Sibthorp’s patens. Prof. I. 
Bayley Balfour remarks as follows: ‘‘The a . 
from one of the stations mentioned by Boswell Syme whence he 
character he gives is one derived from the calyx. 1s 
always have called patens here, and which, I take, it poewer PYMS 
tinguished from officinale except by that of colour. 
probable that spleale is the fit which is essentially that 2 Sat en 
sides, while patens is one of moister localities. With regar ef 6 
length of the calyx compared to the corolla-tube, my teed ae 
lead me in exactly the same direction as Boswell Syme. ere 
does not seem to be any fixity in the character, 
