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The notes on the Violets of the tricolor group, although showin 
commendable caution on the part of Mr. E. G. Baker, their chief 
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be hoped that the numerous names suggested (including V. alpestris 
Jord., from Slough, Bucks, which sounds unlikely) will not find 
their .way into our lists without further investigation. We agree 
with Mr. Wheldon that ‘‘it would be a boon if Mr. Baker would 
Ca laid: trifolia L “This 8 species is well established in the 
woods at Gill Foot, near Egremont, Cumberland, where it carpets 
about a rood of ground, and Anpsers to be spreading, June, 1903.— 
JosEPH ADA 
Lepidium " Smithii — var. alatostyla Towns., Sept. 1 
903 
Garden specimen from a two-year old plant raised from seed col- 
lected at ——— near Southampton, Sept. 1901. Hab., rough 
banks on the ¢ Coll. and comm. F. Townsznp. I think Mr. 
Townsend’s ‘epitiun deserves s subspecific rank, and in that case it 
should be called L. alatistylum Townsend. A .E 
Lepidium hirtum var. sisal of the Recta Ciaaatogu while few 
ask for L. hirtum. It is possible that they are misled by the mistake 
in the Londo iret ta of putting the census number 
hirtum Sm.,. and not after the variety canescens, “phish should have 
Gren. and Godr. pat in brackets, as the authors of the Flore de 
France correctly fsicribad it as a variety of oe heterophylium, to 
which it belongs, the latter being synonymous with L. Smithii 
Hook.—G, C. D. 
(Mr. pence aa to have overlooked Mr. Townsend’s paper in 
Journ. Bot. 3, 97, in which he himself suggests the name 
5 rane i the ike species. In a previous paper (Journ. Bot. 
1900, 420) Mr. Townsend deals with Mr. N. E. Brown's so-called 
heterophylium.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Cerastium singe yal ae: mL. Near Ampthill, Beds, June, 19038. 
hee is doubtless the plant which Abbot, in the Flora a Bedfordiensis, 
102, eat as “C. pumilum (see Top. Bot. p. 81, where it is 
ivctat for 30 Beds.). The true C. pumilum is not contained in 
Abbot’s herbarium, while C. semidecandrum is egy o> by another 
species. Ampt till by one of; the localities given by Abbot for his 
(', pumilum, and the other locality mentioned also valde the same 
form of C, pr eae The soil is a ferruginous sand, wher 
the ti true C. pumilum appears to be sontiiied in England to calcareous 
soils.—G. Craripez Drucr. 
