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entrance to Corrie Kandor, a curious Betida, which was variously 

 referred to B. inb nncdiu, B. .^tUd/dna, and U. alptstn*. The point 

 was eventually settled by Mr. Arthur Bennett's comparing it with 

 an authentic specimen of intermedia at Kew, with which, as well as 

 with Reicbenbach's figure, it agreed very well. In September, 

 1887, close to the ferry at Gashil Dim, below Ben Hope, Suther- 

 landshire, I met with a small tree (about 8 or 10 ft. high), which 

 appeared to be something out of the common. Dr. Lange, to whom 

 a specimen was sent, replied, " B. odorata Bechst., var. j»nrrin>liu 

 ( Wimm.) Kegel, ad B. alpestrum Fr. accedens." Later on, Prof. 

 Babington saw this plant, and considered it to be a form of inter- 

 media. I recently had occasion to turn it over again, and am now 

 quite satisfied of its practical identity with the Glen Callater form. 

 Both are, I suspect, hybrids of B. nana L. with B. jmbescens Ehrh., 

 which the Jura plant described by Thomas is also generally believed 

 to be. The leaves are smaller than in pubescens, for the most part 

 more bluntly toothed, and frequently suborbicular ; the catkins 

 shorter (barely \ in. long, in the Cashil Dim specimens) and pro- 

 portionately stouter, the scales and seeds somewhat different. Mr. 

 Hanbury informs me that B. nana is plentiful around Ben Hope : 

 and it is also found in the Braemar district, so that there is no great 

 improbability in the occurrence of such a hybrid in either neigh- 

 bourhood. Begel, if I recollect aright, considered B. alpestris also 

 as an offspring of the same parentage, the sexes being reversed. — 



Rubus podophyllum P. J. Muell. — Specimens of this species 

 from three different counties having been sent me unnamed, I give 

 the additional distribution, which takes in some of the country 

 lying between the known limits for Britain. Merioneth and Denbigh 

 on the west, and S.W. Yorks on the east, were the counties for 

 which R. podophyllum had already been recorded. My specimens, 

 which agree with the Welsh type rather than with the robuster 

 Yorkshire form, come from hedges near Komiley, Cheshire, col- 

 lected by Mr. J. Whitehead ; Park Bridge, S. Lancashire (sent me 

 as R. Sprengelii /), collected by Mr. J. A. Wheldon,— this being a 

 form with the sepals less glandular than usual ; and Mr. Charles 

 Bailey has found the typical plant within the borders of N. Derby- 

 shire, in the neighbourhood of Mottram (Cheshire). — Edward F. 

 Linton. 



Cotula coronopifolia naturalized.— Mr. Daniel Bobert Alcock, 

 of Trin. Coll., Dublin, sends us a note of the occurrence of this 

 plant at Leasowe, near Birkenhead, in 1893, where he had pre- 

 viously observed it in 1887. Mr. Charles Bailey records it from 

 this locality in the Report of the Botanical Record Club for 1884-6, 

 p. 138, where it is said to have been " established thereabouts for 

 eight or ten years." It seems therefore to be maintaining its 

 ground, and may become a permanent factor in the local flora. 



