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Lamium jyurpureum L., var^ Greenscoe Farm, Askham, v.-c. 69, 

 Aug. 1913. This plant appears to be an abnormal form of L. pur- 

 pureum, but as it came up in an onion bed it may be an alien intro- 

 duced with the onion seed. There was an abundance of typical 

 L. purpureum in the same bed. The odour of the plant is that of 

 purpiireum. The lower lip of the corolla has mostly six divisions — 

 two lateral ones and two pairs superimposed, in place of the two 

 ordinary subrotund terminal ones. In order to show clearly the 

 peculiar structure of the lip, I have dried some flowers separately, 

 having first cut off the upper lip and opened out the remainder. One 

 seedling has appeared. This shows cotyledons considerably longer 

 than broad. In L. purpureum and L. hyhridum the seed leaves are 

 rather broader than long.— D. Lumb. "A very interesting plant, 

 but too young for study. Does it yield fruit 1 It suggests the 

 probability of a cross between L. pihrpureum and L. hyhridum.''^ — J. A. 

 Wheldon. 



Lamium maculatum L., var. laeingatum (L.) Clova, Forfar, Coll. 

 R, and M. Corstorphine, June 1913 ; Comm. G. C. Druce. "Is 

 L. rubrum Wallr." — J. A. Wheldon. " Yes, but L. ruhrum Wallr. 

 is only a synonym of L. laevigatum." — Ed. 



Nepeta Glechoma Benth., var. hirsuta Benth. in DC. Prod, xii., 

 391, 1848. Merrow Downs, Surrey, May 1913. Coll. E. Armitage ; 

 Comm. S. H. Bickham. (See Journ. Bot. 1913, pp. 253, 306). 



Plantago Psyllium L., var. agrestis (Salzm. ex Steud. ed. 2, ii., p. 

 347), as a species. Growing in a disused mill tank, four feet deep. 

 A native of Spain. — Ida M. Hay ward. " Some error or trans- 

 position of labels here. My plant is P. major var. megastachya Wallr." 

 — J. A. Wheldon. "My . specimen is P. major L., and Dr Thel- 

 lung agrees." — ^G. C. Druce. "P. major var. agrestis Fries." — R. 

 M. Cardew and E. G. Baker. 



Plantago % On pebbles by the Tweedy Selkirk, Aug. 1913. 



Looks like a small form of P. agrestis. — Ida M. Hayward. " A form 

 of P. major closely allied to P. na7ia Tratt. Arch, de Gen. t. 42, 

 (1812-18)."— R. M. Cardew and E. G. Baker. 



P. major 'h.^ forma. On pebbles by the Tweed, Aug. 1913. — Ida 

 M. Hayward. 



Plantago Coronopus L. Golf links, Askham, v.-c. 69, Nov. 1, 

 1913. The diminutiveness of these plants is produced solely by their 

 life on a regularly trodden, rolled, and cut green on the golf course. 

 They evidently are only a small approach to the Scarth Hole plants. 



