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aller than usual. The corolla is of the ordinary colour, the 
anterior part being variegated with white. The calyx has the 
usual number of teeth, and the ovary, style and stigma are normal. 
All the other flowers on the plant are normal. The bract in the 
axil of which the abnormal flower occurs is very large, pee 
just five inches in length, exclusive of the petiole.—Arrnur W. 
Harrison, 
Peoria in Opurys arirera Huds.—Last year my friend Mr. T. 
Colgate, Jun., of Glynde, kindly directed me to a spot on the chalk 
downs near this town, where he had met with a very curious 
variety of the bee orchis. On visiting the locality I succeeded in 
obtai r three specimens and left ot 
the typical lip, and of a rose colour, of exactly the same tint as 
the sepals. This gives the flower a most unusual aspect. the 
t'elo ving been observed in Ophrys aranifera. 1 am 
inclined to think the form is-transmitted by seed, as from enquiries 
I have made I believe it has been known in this locality for some 
ears. With it grows very luxuriant typical Ophrys apifera, also a 
form in which the lip—of the typical form — is unicolorous brown 
instead of being variegated with yellow. This I have not myself 
seen elsewhere.—J. H. A. Jennen. 
LYMUS NakIus In Soura Winrs. —I have this summer 
found a large patch (some five or six yards square) of Elymus 
Grenarws on the edge of the sandy cliff between Bournemouth and 
si : 
on the authority of “ Miss Filmore” from “ Exmouth Sands”; but I 
= for it there in vain in 1877. So, in the ‘ Flora of Dorset- 
narvon iv 
ip ge for it. It has also been reported from North Somerset, but 
- do not know on what authority —W. Moyne Roczrs. 
_ Potyropium 
this fern growing near ade, on a 
London and North-western Railway last May. It had not been 
