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Cove" (100 yards away) are from several plants nearer S. Jacobaea. — 

 C. C. ViGURS. " Probably." — A. Thellung. My specimen is much 

 nearer to SeAiecio Ci7ieraria than to x Senecio albescens — G. C. 

 Druce. 



% CUmbing over shrubs above Ilsham Drive, near Torquay, S. 



Devon, July 11, 1913. This plant was shown me by Mr Tregale, 

 who has known it in this place for 15 years, but has never known it 

 flower. The leaves are bright gi-eer and rather fleshy when fresh. 

 The base of the stem where it joins the ground is purple. The shoots 

 were 4 or 5 feet long, with numerous offshoots from the axils of the 

 leq.ves. — C. Waterfall. Senecio mikmiioides Otto — A. Thellung. 

 " A South African species which I have gathered naturalised in 

 Madeira and the Azores." — G. C. Druce. 



Arctium vulgare Evans, var. 1 Roadside, Netherton, S. 



Lanes., v.-c. 59, Aug 16, 1913. The heads are gathered by children, 

 and most of the plants were mutilated before they were ripe enough 

 to be collected. The open part of the fruiting disk measured 1 — 1*8 

 cm. in diameter. — J. A. Wheldon. " Drs L. Schinz and Thellung 

 {Mitt. Bot. Mus. Univ. Zurich, Sept. 1913) reject this name and 

 use A. nemorosum Lej. et Court Mag. d' Hort., i. (1833), 289-290, et 

 Comp. Fl. Belg., iii., 129 (1836), since they hold (as I did in Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist. 1906, 222), that Lappa mdgaris Hill = A. major Bernh. 

 = A. Lappa L., characterised by ' the cups round and green 

 even at the base.' See Hill Veg. Syst. iv., 28. These authors 

 identify Hill's Lapya Arctium as A. tomentosum Miller (wliich seems 

 open to criticism) and L. minor Hill as A. minus.^^ — G, C. Druce. 



Carduus acanthoides L. Near St Neots, Hunts, Aug. 1913. 

 There appears to be little doubt that the common Welted Thistle of 

 England should bear the above name. C. crispus, or as it is better 

 described C. acanthoides, var. crispus, has much whiter undersides to 

 the leaves. The plants distributed are the woodland form of 

 acanthoides which often gets drawn up to 6 feet high, with much of 

 the habit of C. j)alustris. I am not certain whether it has received, 

 or indeed deserves, a varietal name. — G. C. Druce. 



Carduus acanthoides x nutans = x C. Newbouldii (H. C. Wats). 

 [Ref. No. 9485.] Pusey, Berks, June 1913. With both parents, and 

 a good intermediate. It is the C. acanthoides of Gren. and Godr., 

 teste Syme. — G. C. Druce. 



Cirsium arvense Scop., var. setosum. C. A. Mey. Cloverfield, 

 Walton, S. Lanes. (59), Aug. 5, 1913. In the same field were plants 

 referable to var. mite Koch, and var. incanibyn Ledeb., and some 

 intermediate forms. The common form of the plant was also present, 



