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botanical wealth than those further south, although the rare 

 Erythrcea were not so dominant. I never saw the Pyrola mari- 

 tima Kenyon so plentiful or luxuriant elsewhere, and I imagine 

 the same causes conduce to the stout growth of this plant like- 

 wise, and that it would revert back to type if it could be properly 

 cultivated. Other species, e. g. Monotroija, also occurred here, 

 and appeared out of the normal line also. It is to be regretted 

 that these most attractive Lytham sandhills have nearly ceased to 

 exist ; but it is to be hoped that those between Birkdale and 

 Formby may yet remain to give delight to future lovers of nature. 

 — J. Cosmo Melvill. 



Arabis hirsuta Scop. VAR. Gerardi Bess. — Having occasion 

 to send Prof. L. Corbiere, of Cherbourg, a bundle of plants, I 

 included an example of Arahis hirsuta queried as the above 

 variety. 1 have recently received his verification of the naming 

 and wish to call the attention of others to the variety, which is 

 described in Corbiere's Nouv. Fl. de Normandie, p. 46 (1894), as 

 follows: — '' [3. A. Gerardi Bess. Differe seulement de A. hirsuta 

 par ses feuilles caulinaires B^iinculees-sagittees a la base ; siliques 

 plus greles, atteignant jusqu'a 5-6 cm. ; graines plus visiblement 

 ponctuees." My specimens were gathered near Headley, Surrey, 

 in 1889, and the plant may prove to be not uncommon in other 

 localities. — C. E. Salmon. 



BoTRYCHiuM Lunaria IN HERTFORDSHIRE. — I Cannot see that 

 this plant is on record for v.-c. 20 in Topographical Botany or in 

 Mr. Bennett's Supplement (1905). In the Memorials, Journal, &c., 

 of C. C. Babington (1897), p. 234, we read :—" 1882. June 7. 

 We went with Professor and Mrs. Cowell to Mr. Pollard's, at 

 High Down, near Hitchin. We found B. Lunaria for the first 

 time in Herts." — C. E. Salmon. 



Erica cinerea L. var. schizopetala (p. 314). — Mr. G. C. 

 Druce kindly calls my attention to a record by himself (Journ. 

 Bot. 1902, p. 352) of a form of Erica cinerea L., found by Mr. 

 Dickenson, at Edenbridge, Kent, which appears from Mr. Druce's 

 brief description to have been identical with that described by 

 me. — G. S. Boulger. 



EuoNYMUs europ^us WITH WHITE FRUIT. — Tliis autumu I 

 have found two good-sized bushes of this species on which all the 

 fruits, instead of being rose-coloured, were pure white. The 

 capsule had a similar fleshy substance and the aril around the seed 

 retained its brilliant orange colour. The bushes grew in company 

 with others, bearing ordinary fruits, on the bank of the Malago, a 

 small stream that flows through Crox Bottom and the city of 

 Bristol into the river Avon, North Somerset. This albino form 

 does not seem to be mentioned in books, and, occurring as it does 

 in the fruit, is worth notice. — Ida M. Roper. 



Fruit of Euonymus. — I have just been sent from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Guildford, Surrey, a branch of the Spindle-tree 

 bearing cream-coloured fruits, the aril being of the usual orange 



