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G. C. Brown. " Yes, obtusi/olia, but auriously stout-stemmed, 

 coarse-looking plants." — E. Drabble. 



Viola arvatica Jord. Garden weed, Dalton, v.-c. 69b, August 13, 

 1914. These were growing in very stiff, well-manured soil. They 

 were very luxuriant and a tangled mass of stems. — D. Lumb. " The 

 smaller plants with widely spreading peduncles are arvatica ; and as 

 there seem to be all gradations between these and the larger plants, 

 the latter must be arvatica, too, I suppose. But the large plants are 

 much bigger leaved and less zig-zag than any I have previously passed 

 as arvatica." — E. Drabble. 



Viola lutea Huds., with its form or variety amoena (Symons). 

 Nos. 1 and 2 on each sheet were gathered at Malham, v.-c. 64, where 

 they grow together. No. 3 was gathered in Teesdale, v.-c. 65, where 

 it is very plentiful and the prevailing form. June 1914. — J. Cryer. 

 " Yes, very beautiful specimens. It is interesting to notice the much 

 broader leaves and petals in these plants than in Mr Waterfall's 

 Cumberland specimens. The large Teesdale plant seems to be Mr 

 E. G. Baker's sub-var. iiisigiiis." — E. Drabble. 



Viola lutea Huds, b. amoena (T. F. Forst.). Moorlands, ascent of 

 Catterpallot, near Melmerby, v.-c. 70, Aug. 3, 1914. — C. Waterfall. 

 " Yes, amcEna is simply a blue flowered lutea. These are very good 

 specimens, but there is usually an extensive underground development 

 of the branches as in lutea." — E. Drabble. 



Poly gala vulgaris L., var. Ballii Ostenfeld (Not P. Ballii Nyman 

 nomen). Bettyhill, Sutherland, July 1907. Practically identical 

 with Faroe plants sent me by Dr Ostenfeld. He thought these were 

 P. vulgaris, var. grandiflora Bab. = P. Bahingtonii Druce, but they 

 differ materially from the Ben Bulben plant. Nyman, under P. 

 vulgaris as a synonym (sine descriptione), gave P. Ballii, evidently 

 meaning by this name the Irish plant. Therefore, if we use the name 

 it must be as var. Ballii Ostenfeld, i.e., not of Nyman. I found it 

 locally on the Limestone at Ardrahan, Galway, and Inchnadamph, 

 Sutherland W. in 1907. Ostenfeld says it is common in the Faroes. — 

 G. C. Druce. " I have carefully compared my specimen with examples 

 from Wye Downs, Kent, and also with specimens from the hills 

 around Grassington, Yorkshire, and I can find no characters which 

 separate it from type Polygala vulgaris L." — J. Cryer. 



Dianthus prolifer L. Shingle, Pagham, W. Sussex, v.-c. 13, June 

 13, 1914. See Arnold's Sussex Flora 1907, p. 16.— J. E. Little. 



Silene latifolia Rendle & Britten, var. hirsuta Gray. [Ref. No. 

 642]. Cultivated ground, Whatfield, W. Suffolk, v.-c. 26, June 1, 



