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root at least three-fourths of the length of the stem. — C. B. 

 Headly. 



flora Benth. (1) Lowesby, 

 Leicestershire, v.-c. 55, May 21st, 1905.— A. E. Horwood. (2) 

 Scraptoft, Leicestershire, May 18th, 1905.— A. R. Horwood. (3) 

 Sheet Hedges Wood, Leicestershire, May, 1905.— H. P. Reader. 

 (1) According to Bab. Man. ed. ix., this should be subglabrous ; 

 the present plant is very hairy. Mr. Beeby once remarked to me 

 that the species was trimorphic, and that he did not believe in the 

 alleged variety.— E. S. M. The small-flowered form is nearly as 

 common in Leicestershire as the type, and is usually found in close 

 proximity thereto. — W. B. 



Salicornia appressa Dum. Thorney Island, West Sussex, 

 v.-c. 13, Aug. 25th, 1905. I came upon a patch of nearly half an 

 acre in what I believe to be a hitherto unknown locality. One 

 characteristic is entirely lost in pressing. The stems and roots go 

 down perpendicularly into the ground, whilst the foliage lies closely 

 pressed upon the surface, absolutely at right angles to the stem 

 R. S. Standen. Likely enough to be right ; but much too young 

 for certain determination. — E. S. M. 



Urtica pilulifera L. var. Dodartii (L.). Cultivated, Under- 

 down, Ledbury, July 4th, 1905. These are self-sown seedlings 



the type (pilulifera) has vanishec 

 only form now found there. I 

 (type) gathered in 1901. I 



ilulifera 

 Watson 



noticed the same thing when he grew the plant. — S. H. Bickham. 



Gtlyceria plicata Fr. var. pedicellata (Townsend). Scraptoft, 

 Leicestershire, v.-c. 55, June 28th, 1905. Prof. Hackel, in con- 



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Your 



specimen agrees well with the authentic one in my own herbarium 

 from Townsend. " — A. R. Horwood. Mr. Townsend agreed^ that 

 his G. pedicellata was G. fluitans x plicata ; it never fruits. 



E. S. M. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Lithospermum officinale L. var. pseudo-latifolium in Corn- 

 wall.— In August, 1905, while staying at St. Ives, we found, both 

 at Carbis Bay and at Lelant, a plant which we labelled provisionally 

 Lithospermum officinale, on account of the character of its seeds. 

 In it 8 habit and colour and shape of leaves, however, it differs 

 widely from the type. Comparison with Mr. C. E. Salmon's de- 

 scription of I/, officinale L. var. pseudo-lati folium ( Journ. Bot. 1906, 

 367) has shown a very cloge agreement. Our plant is much less 

 strict than the type, the leaves are ovate-lanceolate acute, much 

 more broadly based than in the type, dark green and not grey-green 

 in colour, and with the under surface less hairy. The seeds are 

 more markedly cavo-punctate than seems to have been the case in 



