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ON THE ee OCCURRENCE OF EPILOBIUM 
URLAI J. GAY IN ENGLAND. 
By rue Rev. E. S. Marsnatu, M.A., F.L.S.* 
As readers of this Journal may be aware, I have paid much 
attention to the British Willow-herbs during the past four seasons, 
patspehire plant found by him as E. Duriai, a species not, in ve 
opinion, likely to occur in this country, I asked him to send m 
specimen. He not only did so, but also, on a subsequent re to 
Kew, most courteously showed me a large series of the plant in 
question, besides indicating the herbarium-material upon which his 
conclusion rests. I only venture to differ from him on the ground 
that I have studied our home pies s of this very difficult 
genus with much care, and under e sapaiatg advantageous con- 
ditions. Although my inspection of the Kew bundles was neces- 
sarily brief, and I have not had an opportunity of examining s 
under a microscope, yet the notes then made are, I believe, rust 
worthy as far as they go. 
On receiving the plant under consideration, I at once recognised 
in it a state of HL. montanum, with which I have been familiar since 
eis is also true of FE. lunceolatum, E. collinum, and LE. hyperi- 
cifolium, all of them, in my judgment, good _ distinct species. 
B 
and of continental botanists generally, without having examined 
serve as an ‘lust on :—* Sepcsimn s [of E. ro eu in which the 
is slightly lobed have a » distinguished under the name of 
= fantlatsen,” Those who w the plants will appreciate this 
emark, which is hardly s pea ca at in grotesqueness even he 
came a author’ s destidasiois of Carex depauperata to a variety of C. 
Surely Mr. Clarke has made a slip in speaki Pag the 
peaking 0: e 
remarkably persistent kataphylloid leaves from the preceding year” 
* See Journ, Bot. 1891, p. 225, 
