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levi Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1724. — Differs from 4. aurea by eine 
destitute of scales at the throat of the tube. Hab. Peru. Kno 
only ae the plant described and figured by Lindley.” ‘A ei 
to the Bot. Reg. shows that Lindley’ s name is simply P. awrewn, as 
he believed his oes to be identical with Herbert’s plant so calle 
while the character afforded by the absence of scales seems to 
Baker as inut 
age oeudis. 37, and Amaryllid. 184) refers os a specimen of 
P. flavum from Ruiz in Lambert’s Herbarium. The Ruiz and Pavon 
hebatium, which fc rmed part ‘of Lambert’s collection, is now in 
the British Museum, for which it was acquired at Lambert's sale at 
the cost of ae? A careful inspection of the labels aeecneet to 
Ruiz and Pavon’s specimens, in which I have had Dr. Rendle’s 
help, leads to the conclusion that these authors did iP; psd 
vum oa & en trey distinct from awreum (they publish descriptions 
only of aureum and flammeum), nor can we see that the plants differ. 
Herbert's dhiarakers for the three species—flammeum, aurewm, and 
avum—are not mutually exclusive; and we suspect Lindley was 
right in supposing that the three formed one species. Herbert 
men which is so distin nguished is due, ef think, to its having been 
broken ; moreover, it is labelled flammeum by Ruiz & Payon, and 
the flower agrees exactly with that of the specimen from Lima 
(Dombey) in Herb. Banks., which Herbert accepts as the type of 
that ashame —James Brirren 
HEMILLA VuLGARIS L, var. FILICAULIS (Buser) in West Lanca- 
SHIRE Ce 347),—When recording the varieties pratensis and alpestris 
of Alchemilla vulgaris, we stated that we had no certain record of var. 
jilicaulis, This latter Mase we have since found near Abbeystead, 
yresdale.—J. A. Wuetpon & Atsert Witson. 
WorcEsTERSHIRE ae When botanizing with Mr. W. J. 
Rendall on one of the commons eas ah of the Malvern Hills on 
June 12th, we met with a mint which we then failed to recognize, 
but later gatherings showed it to be Mentha alopecuroides Hull. A 
considerable number of flowering stems were thrown up, but they 
probably all belonged to one plant. Although not near any dwelling, 
3 fear that it is only a garden outcast, as it is difficult to suppose 
mile distant from that in which it occurred in 1892. I am able to 
rate three hybrid Epilobia to those already recorded for this county. 
are FE. adnatum x Lar myi, K'. adnatum Xx parviflorum, an 
