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made by Schlechtendal, Wenderoth, and others, with reference to 

 the various allied species of Valeriana. The general conclusion 

 seems to have been that they are best regarded as distinct species, 

 and I am glad to find that several of my observations which I had 

 considered among the most important, are quite in accord with 

 those made forty years ago, and in another country. Thus 



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by the direction of the lower and middle stem-leaves. This is 

 occasioned by the almost erect position of the petiole/' &c. The 

 latter also states that, after cultivating the various plants under 

 all kinds of different artificial conditions, and altering the treatment 

 of plants raised from seed, they still retain their distinctive characters 

 as to suckers, stolons, &c. — W. H. Beeby. 



Valeriana Mikanii. — With reference to Mr. Beeby's valuable 

 paper in the * Journal ' for November, I may say that this plant 

 grows abundantly in a decidedly moist situation, in and about 

 Burgate Wood, near Mellis, E. Suffolk, associated with several 

 species common on chalky soil. Though not recorded for the vice- 

 county in ' Topographical Botany,' I gather from Dr. Hind that it 

 is more frequent thereabouts than sambuci/olia. — Edward S. 

 Marshall. 



Rubus thyrsiger (Bab.). — I have been asked to point out in print 

 at once the fact that this name cannot stand. I published it on page 

 220 of vol. xxiv. of this Journal (1886). Focke published that 

 same name (in 1877) as given by himself and Banning to a 

 "form" closely allied to R. scaber, of which " a solitary shrub" 

 was found by Banning at Volmardingsen , in Westphalia, in com- 

 pany with ft. scaber. (See Focke, Syn. 341). I have now learned, 

 through the kindness of Mr. N. E. Brown, that my R. thyrsiger 

 may really claim the name of R. rhenanus (Mull.), which was 

 published in ■ Flora, 1 1858, p. 184. I possess the specimen 

 Wirtgen, Bub. Bhen. 58 and 59, as R. tkyrsiflorw), upon which 

 Mii Her founded his species. He does not inform us of the edition 

 of Wirtg. R. R. to which he refers, but the dates show that it is the 

 first. They are apparently the same as my R. thyrsiger, but not 

 derived from so strong a plant. They are very nearly allied to R. 

 thyrsi flatus, and seem to connect that plant with R. Bfoxamii, 

 Those same numbers in Wirtgen' s 2nd edition do not refer to the 

 same plants, and Focke refers one of them (58) to R. canJicans, a 

 very different species. — C. 0. Babington. 



Goodykka rkpens in Yorkshire.— On Aug. 6th the members of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union paid a visit to Market Weighton, 

 and, during our ramble through Houghton Wood, I found several 

 specimens of Qoodyera re pens. It was found growing in what is 

 believed to be virgin soil, of a damp, peaty nature, beneath some 

 old Scotch firs. The suggestion has been thrown out that it was 

 conveyed there at the time of the introduction of these, which are 

 supposed to be eighty years old. — J. J. Marshall. 



