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the Spittal of Glen Shee. My guess at the time, that it might 

 perhaps be Backhouse's //. <i<<thi<-nm var. latifolium, proved to be 

 wrong ; nor, from a comparison of the living and dried plants, have 

 I been able to follow an acute and experienced friend in placing 

 it under H. Dewari, although the two are not far apart. Herr 

 Elfstrand has recently expressed an opinion that this form should 

 be described as a variety under H. Dovrense (a species of which 

 I cannot pretend to have any accurate knowledge) ; accordingly, by 

 Mr. Hanbury's desire, I describe it below. The Messrs. Linton 

 were the first to meet with this plant near Clova, in 1890. 



H. Dovbense Fries, var. spectabile, n. var.— Stem 1£ to 2| ft. 

 high, very hairy below, rather floccose and with a few scattered 

 hairs above. Root-leaves few, ovate, usually apiculate, narrowed 

 into a short broadly-winged petiole, withering early. Stem-leaves 

 semi-amplexicaul, ovate-lanceolate, broader in proportion upwards, 

 lower denticulate, upper more deeply toothed, with about four teeth 

 on each side, glabrous and dull green above, paler beneath, with 

 hairy veins and margins ; their midrib white and very strong, the 

 veins deeply impressed. Inflorescence subterminal (and axillary in 

 cultivation) ; heads 3 to 11 in my wild specimens. Buds broadly 

 cylindrical just before expanding, subglobose when young; phyl- 

 laries remarkably broad, dark, floccose-bordered, sparingly pilose, 

 with a few slightly gland-tipped hairs, inner subacute. Styles livid. 

 lAgules deciduously pilose-tipped. From the specimen of H. Dovrense 

 in my set of Lindeberg's Emiccata the above variety differs consider- 

 ably in appearance, although their inflorescence is much alike. That 

 has a less robust habit, stem-leaves fewer, radical more persistent 

 and narrower, with a slender petiole about equalling their limb, 

 cauline rather narrowly lanceolate, the lowermost stalked ; heads 

 smaller and narrower, not floccose-bordered. The following cha- 

 racters may serve to distinguish it from 11. Dewari: — Herbage of a 

 less yellow-green hue, radical leaves fewer and less persistent, 

 upper stem-leaves more deeply toothed, veins and midrib stronger, 

 involucres larger, phyllaries broader and more floccose, ligules not 

 so markedly pilose at the tips. — E. S. Mabshall. 



Ebysimtjm bepandum in Cobnwall. — This plant I have noticed 

 for at least three years past growing on waste ground near the 

 railway- station, Launceston. This year it seems to be spreading 

 over a much more extended area, and looks as if it had come 

 to stay; perhaps it may be useful to record its appearance. 

 Ltpi'liiim perfoliatum also, which is growing with it, seems to be 

 establishing itself, but not to the extent of the Erysimum.—^. Wise. 



Saeix vibidis Fr. in 8. Somebset. — While waiting between 

 trains at Norton Fitzwarren, on April 30th, I noticed two fine male 

 trees of this willow. I believe it has not been recorded before for 

 this vice-county.— Kichabd F. Towndbow. 



Aponogeton distachyon at Hampstead. — Mr. J. E. Whiting 

 l-d .:. ' . • . i: ; '_ . ■ i, - 



of Mutton Pond, Hampstead Heath, where he also observed it 

 last year. 



