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annual, and I have never seen biennis so large or so spreading." — 

 E. S. Marshall. 



Chenopodium opulifolium x C. serotinum. '? Fazackerley, South 

 Lanes., v.-c. 59, Sept. 1912. The 20 samples collected, large though 

 some of them are, are only side branches from one immense plant, and 

 as many were left to ripen fruit, but were cut down by the proprietor 

 of the field. The two suggested parents were present, and this gigantic 

 individual seemed to be almost exactly intermediate. — J. A. Wheldon. 

 "No, this is C. opulifolium. Schrad., with somewhat greener foliage." 

 — J. MuRR. " My set of Chenopodium is at Cambridge just now, so 

 I cannot compare this with specimens ; but I think that it is only C. 

 opulifolium. A hybrid with G. ficifolium would, surely, have much 

 longer leaves ; and I can detect no sign of this species in the plant 

 before me. C. album x opulifolium is possible, but not probable." — 

 E. S. Marshall. 



Chenopodium album, L. [Ref. No. 5223.] Port Meadow, Oxford, 

 Aug. 1912. — G. C. Druce. " C. album, L., type." — J. Murr. 



Chenopodium serotinum, L. Canal bank, near Ford, S. Lanes., 

 v.-e. 59, Aug. 24. 1912.— W. G. Travis. "No, this is C. album, L., 

 sub-species viridescens, St Am., slightly verging towards sub-species 

 subficifolium,M.\xvYy—J. MuRR. "No; an album variety, probably 

 under C. paganum, Reichb. The application of the name C. 

 serotinum, L., to C. ficifolium, Sm., is very questionable indeed." — E. 

 S. Marshall. 



Chenopodium botryodes, Sm. In quantity round a pool on Lihou 

 Island, Guernsey, Aug. 13, 1912. Tlie small upright plants were 

 growing in water at the edge ; the larger procumbent plants on the 

 shingle near. The largest I saw was 30 inches in diameter. — W. C. 

 Barton. " Yes ; typical." — E. S. Marshall. " Yes ; the only habitat 

 in the Channel Isles. Rouy sinks it to a variety as crassifolius in the 

 Flore de France, but I think without justification." — G. C. Druce. 



Atrijdex hastata, L., var. prostrata, Bouch. *? Sandy ground, 

 Formby, S. Lanes., v.-c. 59, June 29, 1912.— W. G. Travis. "Too 

 young to name definitely ; but I never saw A. hastata anything like 

 so slender or so small leaved. Probably a maritime form of A. patula^ 

 — E. S. Marshall. 



Salicornia perennis, Mill. Mud flats, Hayling Island, South 

 Hants., v.-c. 11, Aug. 1912.— J. Comber. " Yes."— G. C. Druce. 

 "Doubtless right, but gathered too early." — E. S. Marshall. 



