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Both places are quite close to Warrington, and are in v.-c. 59 
8. Lanes. believe P. ay ge has been for a hes time 
extinct in these localities.—C. R 
BractTEatE Form or Scrnua non-scripta.—Mr. Arthur Way 
sends a cultivated sapere of this form which was setphantly 
found many years ago in a wood at Long Ashton, Somerset. The 
lan ra of See tivaoté ¢ sives the plant a remarkable appear- 
who records it from various localities in Berk- 
shire Bs Berks, “491), has named it var. bracteata, but according 
to Mr. Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 256, 1870) this name had already 
been applied to the ger in gardens :—‘ forma hortensis wot 
Soa bracteata Hort.) bracteis valde elongatis 2 poll. vel ultra 
ongis.” ‘To me it seems hardly to deserve a varietal SS ea 
as it occurs in a wild state growing among the ordinary form 
Watson sent it to nod fag neet erigoay Club in 1868, with a 
note which appears in the Report for 1869 (p. 14): ‘ Garden 
examples show the variation oe and leaf-like a. The 
tion eo moved constant Sa the ste the leafy bracts varying 
from 3 inches in length, according to soil and season.’ 
Baines (Fl. Piya uth, 334) sonia ‘a plant with extremely ee 
bracts, the lowest more than three times as long as the flow 
there is a eananiniees of this in the National Herbarium. Th mae 
be noted that the dedication of the plant to St. George, pepe 
by Mr. Druce (J. c.), rests upon no old tradition but is one of the 
numerous inventions of Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster. a AMES 
BRITTEN. 
OvERLOOKED Cape Puants.—The paper by C. F. Ecklon on 
a Plants fou found i in the "District of Uitenhage,” 1829-30, published 
in the South African Quarterly Journal, i. 358-380, see ms to have 
species : 
sylvatica, Drimia uitenhagensis, D. nitida, D. ensifolia, Olea 
humilis, Chir Ase: te Logania capensis, Tabernemontana 
Camasst, Arduina erythocarpa, A. hematocarpa, A. macrocarpa. 
Of these the Dioscorea and two Drimias find no place in the 
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as Kamasst. In Fi. Capensis (vi. 253) the rico hard is quoted 
under Testudinaria sylvatica as of “ Ecklon ; neither 
Drimia uitenhagensis nor D. nitida is scatlecuibal, pete D. ensifolra 
ence to Drége’s n. 8616 b. e two former will no doubt be iden- 
tified by those pear with the order, now that attention has 
been called he descriptions; for the third Ecklon’s specific 
_—_ will have to be adopted, as the following synonymy will 
ow :— 
