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thick pubescent twigs, but they have the correct shape of leaf, and 

 pubescence on leaf and petiole ; teste A. Henry. — G. C. Druce. 

 " Specimen poor. Very near the last, and possibly of the same 

 origin. The Poplar known as P. 7iiyra in the East of England seems 

 to be quite different from this, judging from specimens I have received 

 from there recently." — A. B. Jackson. 



Populus deltoidea, Marsh., x nigra, L. Bank of the Hiz, above 

 Cad well Bridge, Beds, near Ickleford, Herts, Mar. 30 and May 31, 

 1912. One of a series of about a dozen trees, all staminate, which 

 I have had under observation for two years, some pollarded, one 

 or two unmaimed. I believe them all to rank together. Many of 

 the leaves have no trace of glands at the base, but every here and 

 there one or two are found at or near the base of the lamina. Shoots 

 and buds are glabrous ; petioles hairy ; underside of the leaves 

 glabrous. Spring leaves are largely long-acuminate, with a cuneate 

 base, but the vigorous summer growth has an almost cordate base 

 and a triangular outline. For this particular tree I have not yet 

 procured the summer shoots. — J. E. Little. " Resembling very 

 much in texture and shape of leaf a $ tree at Bedford Park, specimens 

 from which I sent to the Club in 1911 under the name of P. nigra, 

 but which Dr Moss, when I showed him the tree last summer, 

 considered might possibly be P. deltoidea x P. nigra, var. viridis. 

 See Report 1911, p. 126."— A. B. Jackson. 



Liparis Loeselii, Rich. Chippenham, Cambridgeshire. Coll., A. 

 Fryer; ex-herb. G. C. Druce. 



Hellehorine latifolia, Druce. Gatcombe Wood, Minchinhampton, 

 V. c. 34, Aug. 14, 1912. Coll., E. M. Day. These are sent to illustrate 

 the difficulty of fitting our forms to the received descriptions. None 

 of these specimens have the orthodox 'smooth bosses' of the species, 

 though they vary greatly in depth of furrows and amount of roughness. 

 The plants are clearly //. latijolia. Much scarcer with us in Gloucester- 

 shire is var. 7nedia, E. S. Marshall, the bosses of which show no essential 

 difference from the type, nor do the flower bracts. — PL J. Riddelsdell. 

 " In N. latifolia the bosses are smooth. I believe this to be fine 

 H. atroviridis, W. R. Linton." — E. S. Marshall. "The habit, shape 

 and texture of leaf, smaller flowers, etc., seem to point to var. media 

 rather than typical latifolia'' — C. E. Salmon. " A mixed gathering. 

 Two samples were E. latifolia. All., one was probably E. atro-ruhens, 

 Hoffm., and several were intermediates. The specimens were however 

 not well prepared for accurate determination." — J. Cryer. 



Narcissus sp. Field on slope near Llanedeyrn, v.-c. 41, April 15, 

 1912. Flowers all double, mostly greenish, sometimes very green, but 



