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R. discolor Angl. {R. tdmifolius Schott), hedges between Famliam 

 Royal and Stoke Pogis. R. thyrsoidem Angl. (R. pubescent W. & N.), 

 lane above the Crown Inn, East Burnham. R. leucostachys, 

 Burnham Beeches and between Farnhain Royal and Stoke Pogis. 

 R. Sprengelii, heathy thickets at Burnham Beeches, R. Koehleri 

 var. R. pallidas Angl., Burnham Beeches and between Farnhain 

 Royal and Stoke Pogis. R. diversif olios Lindl., roadside thickets 

 between Farnham Royal and Stoke Pogis. R. corylifolius, hedges 

 about Farnham Royal. R. ccesiits, hedges between Stoke Pogis 

 Church and Slough. — J. Gr. Baker. 



Note on Salix fragilis. — I have been much interested in 

 reading Dr. Buchanan White's paper on Salix fragilis and RwseU- 

 iana, and hope it will be only the first of a series in which he will 

 tell us of the results of his recent careful investigations into the 

 hybrid British Willows. On this matter we in Britain are at 

 present far behind the continental botanists, and must look to him 

 to bring us up to the position we ought to occupy. Why I wrote 

 now was to tell him that he will find an excellent figure of Smith's 

 fragitis, which no doubt is the right thing, in the ' Salictum 

 Woburnense ' of Forbes, tab. 27. This gives a far better idea of 

 the plant than any other figure or specimen I have seen. The 

 capsule agrees very well with that of S. viridis Fries, but the leaf 

 is further away from that of (dim than is that of Smith's Russell- 

 iana, which is well represented in the < Salictum Woburnense,' at 

 tab. 28. A second form of the continental fragiUs, with a broader, 

 greener leaf than that of Russelliana, is figured by Forbes under the 

 name of S. montana at tab. 19. This latter agrees very W3ll with 

 the common Thames-side form of the plant. Of this S. montana 

 it is said that the twigs are little inferior to those of vitellina for 

 tying and the finer kinds of wicker-work. In an excellent paper 

 in the < Gardeners' Chronicle' for 1845, p. 69, on the Thames 

 osiers, their local names and relative economic values, it is stated 

 tUt fragilis, llusselliana, and alba are all three occasionally grown 

 as osiers for the purpose of making eel- wheels and cooper's twigs, 

 but that they are all three much inferior to rubra and the various 

 forms of viminalis and triandra in economic value, whilst Lam- 

 bertiana, Helix, and tindulata are "all rubbish."— J. (x. Bakeb. 



Polygala austriaca Crantz, in Surrey. — It was my good 

 fortune to meet with this form of Polygala on the 2nd of June last, 

 on a roadside bank near Caterham. On the 7th of the present 

 month I obtained additional specimens, with more developed trmt, 

 at the same spot. The specimens have been seen and approved by 

 Mr. J. G. Baker and Mr. W. H. Beeby. According to Hooker 

 (' Student's Flora,' p. 51, 3rd ed.), the Kent form is blue-lowered. 

 In the Caterham form the flowers are of a delicate white.— William 



Whit well. 



