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S. cory77ihosum, Fr. Teesdale, Aug., 1886. Style livid, — H. 

 T. Mennell. This seems to me to be H. striclum, auct. angl., 

 a plant which I know in Aberdeenshire. Mr. Bennett, referring 

 to a note of mine to that effect, writes, I agree with you in 

 thinking this is H. striclum, Backh., non Fries ; although Mr. 

 Mennell submitted most of his specimens to Mr. Backhouse." 

 — E. F. Linton. 



Hieracium 1 Bank of Nith, Sanquhar, 1887. Styles 



yellow. — A. Davidson. H. corymhosum, Fries. A very in- 

 teresting addition to Dumfries (72). — E. F. Linton. 



Hieracium } Banks of Nith (abundant), Dumfries- 

 shire. Leaf hairy, styles yellow. — A. Davidson. It does not 

 look to me as if the styles of this plant were originally yellow. 

 In the preceding they evidently were. In this, I doubt very 

 much : the style-sheaths were yellow, but scarcely the styles 

 themselves. Anyway, I have little hesitation in calling this 

 H. horeale^ Fr. Dumfries is one of the few counties for which 

 it is not recorded in Topographical Botany, Ed. 2. — E. F. 

 Linton. 



Taraxacum palustre^ DC. Shirley, Derbyshire, June iith, 

 1887. — W. R. Linton. Hungerhills, Dewsbury, S.W. Yorks., 

 May, 1887. — P. F. Lee. These were omitted by accident from 

 being sent to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Linton's plant is right. Mr. 

 Lee's will hardly do, having neither the leaves nor the bracts 

 of palusti'e. The specimens are too young for certain deter- 

 mination. — E. F. Linton. 



Lactuca saligna^ L., var. runcinata {vide Sowerby's Engl. Bot.). 

 River bank, Plumstead, August 8th, 1887.— F. H. Ward. 

 Correct. — A. Bennett. 



Primula vulgaris, Huds. Copse, Alton, May 23rd, 1887. — J. 

 Vaughan. Seems to be the variety known as intermedia, which 

 probably is not permanently different from caulescens. — E. F. L. 



P. scotica, var. acaulis. Holburn Hill, Caithness, July 8th, 

 1887. — F. H. Ward. Keiss Links, Caithness, August, 1885. 

 P. acaulis is not a variety, but a form, apparently dependent on 

 the vigour of the plant. This plant may be found in flower 

 from the middle of April to the middle of September. Acaulis 

 is found occasionally all through the summer, but chiefly at the 

 end of August. It is rare in some seasons. I enclose a few 

 specimens which shew the old scape and the form acaulis on a 

 side shoot on the same root. The old scapes were quite fresh 

 and green when the specimens were gathered. — D. Nicolson. 



Scrophularia vernaliSf L,. Gloddaeth, Llandudno, May, 1887. 

 -=-J. E. Griffith. 



