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with mueronate crenate teeth. Panicle pyramidal, or straggling 

 with the side branches, much lengthened, and their flowers very- 

 long peduncled ; primordial flower always very short stalked. 

 Bachis wavy, its prickles many, unequal, the larger rather strong, 

 long, declining, passing into gland-tipped acicles and stalked 

 glands. Flowers large, cup-shaped, petals usually rose, narrow, 

 distant long, externally hairy, margin ciliate. Stamens white, 

 soon rose-coloured at base, longer than the green styles. Sepals 

 reflexed in flower and fruit. 



From its nearest ally, B. mucronatus Blox., this plant is dis- 

 tinguished by the angled stem, stronger and more unequal arma- 

 ture of stem and rachis, gradually acuminate and partly lobate 

 terminal leaflet with coarser serration, broader straggling panicle, 



and reflexed sepals. 



Localities : — Hereford : Kington, Kinnersley, Brilley, and 

 other stations in the north-west ; first in 1884. Black Mountain 

 district. Radnor: Corton and Presteign. East Inverness: Nairn! 

 and East Boss: Rosemarkie! 1898, Marshall. Ireland: Malleranny, 

 Co. Mayo ! 1899, Marshall. 



The Scottish plant is a rather stouter form ; the Irish agrees 

 in all points with the plant of Hereford and Radnor. 



BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB REPORT, 1906. 



[The Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1906, " by the 

 Editor and Distributor, the Rev. W. R. Linton,' ' issued in April, 

 is prefaced by the " Secretary's Report," containing a summary of 

 14 the chief items of botanical interest of the year." This is signed 

 by Mr. Druce, who, although only announced as Treasurer of the 

 Club, apparently combines with this the secretarial office. Here, 

 in at least one instance, and more frequently in the list of de- 

 siderata, Mr. Druce finds an opportunity for indulging his passion 

 for new combinations — with, it is to be feared, the too frequent 

 result of encumbering nomenclature with useless synonyms ; an 

 example of this has already been given in this Journal (p. 240). 

 But even should the names stand, we cannot think it right to pub- 

 lish them in such a list ; and nothing can justify the erection of 

 the slip by which Messrs. Colgan & Scully wrote Polygonum 

 sagittifolium instead of P. sagittatum into a synonym as " Poly- 

 gonum sagittifolium Colgan & Scully " ! This, by the way, appears 

 in a note of Mr. Druce's in the Report proper, and we are surprised 

 the editor allowed it to pass. If such synonymy is to be recog- 

 nized, Mr. Druce may add yet further to the names for which he 

 stands in loco parentis : we find in the desiderata list " Agropyron 

 lepens," which by analogy must be quoted in future as " Agropyron 

 lepens Druce." We note that Mr. Druce has anticipated criticism 

 and secured another name by giving as a synonym of his Salvia 

 Marquandii, published in this Journal as recently as December 

 last, " Salvia Verbenaca var. Marquandii" 



