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neighbourhood, that I sent to the Club last year, and that was con- 

 sidered by those who commented upon it to be very probably Papaver 

 duhium x Rhoeas. As I do not see, apart from the form of the 

 capsule, very strong evidence of F. duhium, I prefer to regard my 

 plant as a form of aggregate P. Rhoeas, perhaps worch distinguishing 

 as a variety or sub-species, I believe it to be well spread in Surrey, 

 and possess a similar plant collected at Chilworth in 1895. All the 

 field poppies (except R. Lecoqii) grew with it, P. Rhceas var. strigosum 

 included. After paying a good deal of attention to poppies, I am 

 under the impression that P Rhoeas, as restricted by Rouy et 

 Foucaud, Fl. de France, i., p. 154, is an uncommon plant. These 

 examples were furnished by one luxuriant plant. — C. E. Britton. 

 " Good ripe seed in these examples rather negatives the idea of 

 hybridity. I hope to grow them. The capsules in my example last 

 year were apparently sterile." — J. A. Wheldon. 



Papaver Rhceas, L., var. strigosum, Boenn. Kimble, Bucks, 

 July 1912. Growing amongst P. j^Ateas and The petals were 



very dark and striate. I have made my specimens very poor in my 

 efforts to eke out ten sheets. — F. L. Foord-Kelcey. " Mr H. N. 

 Dixon {Journ. Bot. 1892, 309) sowed seeds of what he thought was 

 strigosum, and out of ten plants only two had appressed hairs ; yet 

 Fedde, in his Monograph {PJianz. I.e.) makes strigosum a distinct 

 species separated by nineteen others from P. Rha^as, and having seven 

 varieties. Is our British strigosum identical with the continental 

 one, or could the strigosum of Mr. Dixon's be a hybrid of dubium ? 

 This plant shows no signs of a dubium parentage." — G. C. Druce. 



Papaver Rhoeas, L., var. c. Pryorii, Druce. Cornfields, Avebury, 

 Wilts N., v.-c. 7, June 9, 1912.— W. C. Barton. " Yes ; and this is 

 an earlier name than vai'. erythrotrichum, Fedde in Engl. PJianz., 

 295, 1909, which is not the same plant." — G. C. Druce. "Hairs 

 much fewer, shorter, and paler than in the most marked examples of 

 the variety, but I suppose coming under it, as I think Mr Druce 

 applies the name to any plant with the hairs tinged with crimson." — 

 J. A. Wheldon. 



Papaver Lecoqii, Lamotte. Plentiful on chalk soil, Kimble, Bucks, 

 June 1912. This species is much commoner in this neighbour- 

 hood (especially in our garden and on the railway banks) than 

 P. dubium, L. — F. L. Foord-Kelcey. 



Hypecoum pendulum, L. Alien. On waste ground near Wake- 

 field, v.-c. 60, Aug. 16, 1912. — This interesting alien has made its 

 appearance every year since 1902. This year there were more plants 

 than at any previous year. No doubt out-thrown from barges carry- 



