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from seven to nineteen, with the remains also of dead stems of the 
previous year’s growth. 
A few specimens I have seen practically agree with the var. 
uliginosa as regards their dimensions. These were from a more 
elevated and exposed situation. Still by far the greater number of 
the specimens do not agree with the var. uliginosa, being far too 
large. There are, however, some plants of various intermediate 
I have carefully compared the West Yorkshire plants with those 
of P. calcarea N. Schultz from many localities, and I find that it 
differs fro i 
the flowers are also fewer, and the stems distinctly straighter. 
Mr. N. E. Brown, in the Supplement to the Third Edition of 
English Botany (p. 84), identifies P. calcarea Schultz with P. 
amarella Crantz, but this view is not accepted by Prof. Chodat. 
Il.—By Jou Cryer. 
Dourine last Whit-week I brought from Grass Woods, Grassing- 
ton, near Skipton, a few specimens of a beautiful Polygala which 
crowded racemes and the number of them, its large spathulate 
radical leaves, indicated to me that it was not the well-known 
Having a cottage near Grassington, I have been able to spend 
many weeks in investigating this interesting plant, its varied forms, 
its distribution, &c. I have found it fairly well distributed over an 
* The Floras say, as broad and some broader ; this is not the case in dried 
oper: P. oxyptera has the lateral sepals shorter as well as narrower than 
' its \ 
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