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asserts, ig it not at least possible that there may be some hybrids 
still unsuspected of being such, but taken to be a series of ill-defined 
varieties or species ? That point can only be ieee? rigs : 
should think, by experimental crossing. The forms which I 
thought there is good reason to suspect were hybrids have exhibited 
a parallelism with P. elatior x veris in being po shipicnen and in 
being very scarce in comparison with their supposed par 
it is very important, in my opinion, to examine sonafally all 
specimens that seem to be aberrant or different in any way from 
those one has previously met with. By so doing is learned what is 
more, and what is less, variable in each species; and also what 
ars does not ie how the fact that ‘most brambles 
are probably bird-sown at first’ accounts for the existence of so 
many species. Nor does he enlighten us on the more inisteekinn 
te of how the minor ity—not to be found in the surrounding 
country—came into existence. 
SHORT NOTES. 
East Sussex Prants.—The Rev. E. N. Bloomfield has asked 
me to send a note on the following pene found in Sussex :— 
_In a pastur 
For the second and third Mr. Bloomfield eal indebted to the Rev. 
H. Graham.—Arruur Bennert. 
-Vateriana Dioscorrpis Sibth. et Sm. m Corrv.—Of this inte- 
resting species, iam ig ari figured on tab. 83 of the 
Flora Greca, Smi s: ‘*Hee est vere ov Diose oridis, a nemine 
I psduiticieoali ante Sibthorp detecta, et cujus locum 
in officinis Europeis jampridem usurpavit Valeriana esa 
Linnei.” Sibthorp’s plant was collected in Lycia. s not 
recorded for Corfu in Haldcsy's Conspectus Flore Grace, Sica oe 
____ Siven for Cephalonia and Zante. ‘od gathered it last March on the 
_ Gifs of the picturesque hill which is crowned by the Castle of 
