A form of Drosera intermedia. 199 



(Pursh) allied species, (the latter, however, with large white 

 flowers and more slender build,) are apt to be mistaken for 

 it. The variety distachya {DC. Prodromus I. p. 318) with 

 bifid scape, two spiked at apex, is a luxuriant state found 

 occasionally in both countries. D. obovata (M. and K.) is 

 evidently a hybrid between rotundifolia and anglica. I 

 have gathered this in Wybunbury Bog, growing with its 

 probable parents. This Cheshire locality, therefore, may 

 be considered one of the richest in this country for Droserce^ 

 as all the species and forms hitherto recorded as being 

 native occur there. The finest specimens of D. obovata I 

 have seen, however, came from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, 

 collected in the summer of 1888 by the Revs. E. F. and W. 

 R. Linton. Mr. C. Bailey possesses it from Thorne Moor, 

 Yorkshire (J. Hardy, 1846) ; Boat of Garten, EasternesS) 

 July, 1887 (G. C. Druce) ; Crewe of Kintail, West Ross, 

 J y, 1881 (G. C. Druce); and European specimens from 

 Lac de Lispach (Vosges), France : Billot Exsiccata No. 

 2,023, Wirtgen 172, Gerardmer, F. Schultz 43 5]^ ; Bergzabern, 

 Palatinate, F. Schultz 435 ; and Schwarzsee, Reichenbach 

 1078. I have it from the Lac de Lispach {y. supra) 

 collected by Buchinger, prope Salisburgiam (Salzburg) 

 1835, C. B. Lehmann — these two from the Boswell (Syme) 

 Herbarium of Europe and North temperate zone, purchased 

 by me in 1889. 



In conclusion, the following remarks about the general 

 distribution of this interesting family (the Droseracece) may 

 be interesting. 



In addition to the three European species just alluded 

 to, which get rarer or altogether absent in the Mediter- 

 ranean region, while in Spain and Portugal the handsome 

 and local Drosophyllum Lusitanicum alone is found, we 

 find the genus unrepresented in N. Africa, south of the 

 Sahara ; only two or three species have as yet been detected 

 in Tropical Africa ; six, however, occur in the more southern 



