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Mr. Hanbury. From H. argenteum Fries, which Mr. Stewart and I 

 obtained in several stations in the Monrne Mountains, it is im- 

 mediately distinguished by its numerous large stem-leaves. 

 E. Lloyd Praeger. 



Potentilla reptans var. microphylla Trattinick (Rosacearum 

 Monographia, iv. 80, 1824). — Mr. Arthur Bennett has kindly 

 identified a plant which I recently sent him as the above variety. 

 I gathered it in June last on grassy banks in a disused limestone 

 quarry at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire. In the early summer, the 

 small leaves and flowers, and the closely tufted habit of the plant 

 without runners, give to it somewhat the appearance of P. verna, 

 for which species indeed I at first took it; this resemblance is, 

 however, lost later on in the season, though the small size of the 

 leaves and flowers, and the compact habit, still give it quite a 

 distinct facies. Mr. Bennett tells me that he gathered it a few 

 years ago on chalky hillocks in Chippenham Fen, Cambs., and 

 that this is the only other British locality known to him. — 

 H. N. Dixon. 



Papaver Bhceas var. strigosum Bngh. — This var. of P. Rhceas, 

 with appressed hairs on the peduncle, was recorded during 1891 

 from a number of localities in the neighbourhood of Northampton. 

 In one locality, upon a piece of waste ground of considerable size, 

 I found a large number of plants of the variety, intermixed with 

 typical Bhceas, with here and there a plant of P. Argemone; no P. 

 dubium. As the var. is certainly not a common one in this neigh- 

 bourhood usually, I was tempted to suspect a local or temporary 

 cause for the variation. I therefore gathered seeds of the var., 

 which I sowed this spring under glass — a precaution necessary to 

 prevent admixture with the ordinary P. Rhceas, seedlings of which 

 are only too common about here. Some of the seedlings thus 

 raised were planted out in the garden, and the rest kept indoors. 

 Of ten plants thus grown only two proved to be the var. strigosum, 

 all the rest being typical Rhceas ; the plants were in all respects, 

 except the peduncles, very similar, the form of the capsule in both 

 type and var. being identical. I am compelled therefore to conclude 

 that the variation is probably only of a temporary kind, dependent 

 on local or other causes. This conclusion is supported by the fact 

 .hat in visiting the same piece of waste ground this year I was 

 unable to find a single plant of the var., where last year it was so 

 common. By itself this would of course prove nothing, but, taken 

 in conjunction with the above facts, it corroborates, I think, the 

 conclusion drawn from them. — H. N. Dixon. 



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Lancashire. — I found thi 



summer 



I do not 



specify the exact locality for obvious reasons, but have placed a 

 specimen in the Herbarium of the Nat. Hist. Museum. In the 



postcript to his Flora of the English Lake District, Mr. J. G. Baker 



mentions having "seen a specimen gathered in Furness, near 

 Hampsfield, by Mr. W. Nixon, of Eccleriggs." It is not recorded 

 for Lancashire in Top. Bot.—Vf. C. Worsdell. 



