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Blytt (“= v. majusculum Hartm. ed. 9? excl. cit. Rehb.”’) ; and 
secondly, the hybrid A. majus x minus. 
bout the same time I felt it desirable to see an authentic 
specimen of A. nemoroswm, and as I could not find one here, I 
applied to the Brussels Museum, and. courtesy of the 
Director I was able to borrow an authentic example collected by 
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always applied the name A. nemor —the plant “with the 
heads agglomerated (and almost sessile) at the apex of the principal 
anual. 
In the 1883 distribution of the Botanical Exchange Club, 
Townsend sent out a plant labelled “ Arctium intermedium Lange. 
Open places in woods. Honington, Warwickshire. Sept. 1883.” 
ran : 
Dr. Lange’s report on the name is instructive —‘ Cer- 
tainly; but somewhat different from o plant, which always 
occurs in shado We sider tum and 
: con, A. tnt 
nemorosum Le}. synonymous” (Bot. Exch. Club Report, 1883, 
p. 90). The plant in question is a well-marked example of 
A. majus x minus, and has not even a superficial resemblance to 
A. nemorosum Lej. 
I have also in my collection a specimen acquired about the 
remark: “Is, I suppose, what we should eall nemorosum Lej.” 
Mr. Bennett’s “ nemorosum” of that period was of course the true 
many-faced inte wum. If so, it may account for Kérnicke’s 
identification. 
I very much doubt whether we have any fourth species to 
port the name A. pubens Bab. If so, I am unacquainted 
with it, though I believe that Messrs. Groves are satisfied of the 
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