﻿Wilts Plants. — At Wraxall, near Bath, occur Marrubium 

 ruhjare L. and Eiiplmrhi,, Lathyris L., both rare Wilts plants. For 

 the former there was no recent record for the county.— S. F. Dunn. 



Yellow-flowered Verbascum Lychnitis L. — On the coast of 

 West Somerset, not far from Porlock, occurs in considerable 

 quantity a mullein resembling Verbasntm Lyrhnitix L., as described 

 tli m all b it if ii i , xh < h are 



ithout comment from the 

 same locality by Prof. Babington (/,V. Ga~. 1850, p. 251). On 

 applying for a name for this variety at the Nat. History Museum, 



resulted in the following information. Linnasus's species included 

 pale and yellow-flowered plants. From these V. pulverulentum was 

 Beparated by Villars, the original name being unaltered, though 

 limited in sense. As thus restricted, V. Lychnitis L. includes the 

 usual pale-flowered form of Britain, and a yellow and smaller- 

 flowered plant hitherto only noticed on the Continent. The variety 

 "nlbum ^ instituted by Miller and copied by Moench, though not 

 mentioned by English writers, apparently applies to our pale- 

 flowered plant, while " V. Lychnitis L. proper" includes only 

 yellow-flowered plants. The latter, as Mr. Arthur Bennett kindlj 

 pointed out, is considered by Grenier and Godron {Flore de la 

 France) as synonymous with V. micranthum Moretti, PI. Ital. 

 dec. 3, p. 6, and distinguished by "corolle petite, plane, tantdt 

 jaune." The usual English plant called " F. Lychnitis L." by our 

 countrymen is therefore, strictly speaking, var. album Mill., while 

 the Porlock plant is the var. micranthum Moretti, or merely "re- 

 stricted V. Lychnitis L." of many continental writers. — S. F. Dunn. 



Potamogeton trichoides Cham, in Devon. — Amofcg other 

 aquatic plants collected during last autumn from Bradmere Pool, 

 a small deep lake near Chagford, S. Devon, was a Potamogeton 

 which looked like a very slender P. pusillum, but with peduncles 

 many times longer than the spikes. Mr. Arthur Bennett, to 

 whom I sent a specimen, named it P. trichoides Cham., with the 

 following comment: — "It is P. trichoides Chamisso, the var. called 

 Trimmeri by Dr. Caspary, of Konigsberg, in Joum. Linn. Soc. viii. 

 273 (1860), found by Bev. K. Trimmer in Norfolk. Your plant 

 differs from the original drawing of Chamisso's plant ; his descrip- 

 tion says, 'leaves one-nerved'; yours has three nerves, and the 

 frait is without the undulated frontal margin that yours has. But 

 Gay, and also Cosson and Germain (Flore de Paris), figure it with 

 three nerves, and the fruit varies a good deal. A very extreme 

 form is named var. tuberculatus Eeichenbach. In Britain P. tri- 

 choides occurs in Norfolk! Suffolk 1 only so far as I know." Mr. 

 Bennett adds that the plant occurs in good quantity in a fossil 

 state in the Suffolk and Norfolk clay-beds, and also, he believes, 

 in the Bovey Tracey beds, which occur not many miles from its 

 modern Devon locality. — S. F. Dunn. 



Bexula intermedia Thomas ln W. Sutherland. — In 1886, Mr. 

 F. J. Hanbury and myself found in Glen Gallater, not far from the 



