98 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the specimen of the former from Vallée d’Egnes 25-26, 6, 5, in the 
Kew Herb., which I alluded to in my former paper as apparently 
paving similar ees are sO immature, that later experience 
aches infere n be drawn from them. I find that 
vray h ri ” this aeE of development | they may be entire, they 
cae notched or simply rounded when mature. Mr. H. F. 
pancon has distributed ie be from Kinson, Dorset, which he 
has named L. Smithit Hook. var. alatostyla Towns. Aug. 18, 1890, 
but a pcm examination of the silicles of these will show that they 
exhibit the character of L. heterophyllum Benth. and not that of 
the Redbridge plant, the silicles Being slightly notched or simply 
ream at the summit. There are in Mr. Joseph Wood’s Herb. 
oO spe ea named Thlaspi hir sf from Lymington, with the 
date June 1848, one of which is very similar to the Kinson 
plant, the silicles being faintly notched, while in the other they are 
much more deeply notched. 
Further observation of the cultivated plant of the var. alatostyla 
during this autumn and winter have shown how the seed escapes 
from the indehiscent silicle. This is effected by the decay of the 
cellular tissue on the under side of the silicle immediately under 
the two seeds in each valve. The longitudinal fibrous tissue does not 
‘decay so rapidly, but the decay of the egies tissue leaves longi- 
tudinal slits through which the seeds escape. The late J. T. 
Boswell, in the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1882, 
the following note on the var. alatostyla: ‘* A very remark- 
able plant, probably deserving to be c onsidered a subspecies if it 
comes true from seed. The entire pods are considerably more 
swollen below than in L. noertele the fruit peduncles are shorter, 
and sti rachis has longer hai 
t this variety presen nts a very marked departure from 
L. Leib tisk Benth. and L. Smithii Hook. cannot be denied, and 
if the differences are considered such as to constitute the plant a 
subspecies, I would suggest the adoption of the name Lepidium 
ititisey tte Widpectaa by Mr. Boswell. 
ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Parr X. 
By Spencer Lz M. Moors, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
(Continued from Vol. xl., p. 409.) 
New Puants rrom Austrauia.—lIl. 
Last summer the British Museum acquired by purchase a set 
of the plants collected in the Coolgardie district of Western Aus 
tralia by Mr. Leonard C. Webster. I have worked out the Gamo- 
ptm: of this collection, which, besides examples of several very 
embraces the five novelties described below 
” a Websteri, sp. nov. Perennis caulibus e  rhizomate 
valido plurimis ascendentibus copiose foliosis sparsim ram 
