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produced later, and do no not form a rosette like all our other 
native species.” One of the aap emg . the Appendix is on 
Mr. Tow 
pS enone aa viscosum, and in end tells us :—‘‘ An 
examination of authentic pomsons of (. clatintpen: a om- 
municated by Prof. Iries, has = eaniperia me that his plant is 
identical with our C. pusillum.” Som rks on Orchis: apseresy 
mer 
considered in igre with the hanks paper of Mr. C. B. Clarke, 
oc. xix., 206, are especially worthy of attention. 
We hav aa. a description of a supposed hybrid plant, name 
0. atfolo si Under Care « CEderi, we find the observation, 
‘“«T have r found this plant ae in England or on the Con- 
— anise on ground which has been covered by water during 
inter and is left comparatively dry during summer the 
favourite station for C. Gvderi is on the margins of large pools or 
lakes Mr. Townsend now identifies the Glyceria plicata, var. 
nana of his ‘ Contributions to a Flora of the Scilly _ — - 
declinata Brébisson, Fl. Nom., ed. 8 and 4, and enters fully 
shee ——— it in the Appendix. We have also a seth 
= a ety of Sclerochloa maritima Lind., which he has 
nao 
et desire to swell the number of the species for the 
county has led to the admission of some plants, Orchis hircina for 
mei into its list on what would seem very slender evidence 
in 
Professor Babington’s arrangement of the genus Rubus is the 
one adopted, and Mr. J. G. Baker’s — for the genus Rosa. Mr. 
Townsend follows i in making Rubus ramosus Blox., 
identical with, or a variety of, R. imbricatus Hort owever, 
feel confident the two are as distinct as are R. lentil Lees, 
and R. rhamnifolius 
uthor of the ‘Flora of Plymouth’ is curiously enough, 
though at the 4 same time quite logically, given as the authority for 
aL & : 
** first record” of Rubus hirtifolius Mull. irt., for Isle of Wight, 
through his havin owed by Professor Babington to print 
some arks forwarded in a letter embod the statement, 
‘‘T have what seems to be the same [as the Plymouth plant] 
from Alborne, Sussex, and Apse Castle Wood, Isle of Wight.”— 
Fl. Plym., p. 117. 
Two other new varieties of well- omic species are named and characterised 
as follows :—Lepidium Smithii, var. b. alatostyla. “ An interesting var., with 
ari aieaer simple fn the base o the stem "on ace "heats and 
po lt po ssibly V. arvensis, var. perpusilla Bromf., from Isle of Wight (speci- 
- mens are in Kew Herb.) tislatigts here.—Sandy field west of Hengistbury Head, 
stem seems to be ted at an early stage, and branches are produced nents bad 
axils of the votyledons and lower leaves, giving the young plant the appear 
of a compact 
