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J^uinex crispus, Ij , v8iY.? Conway, Carn., Sept., 1892. — J. L. 

 Williams. A very slight variety ; the inner sepals are slightly 

 denticulate, and the shape is towards var. sulcordatus, Warren — 

 A. B. 



Salix rubra, Huds., b. Forhyana, Sm. Thirsk, Yorks., April 

 and Sept., 1892. — A. B. Hall. I am afraid there is some mistake 

 here ; the catkins certainly correspond very closely with a rulra 

 form, but the leaves are not those of Forhyana. Has there been 

 some mistake in matching the leaves as from the same specimens 

 as the catkins ? — A. B. 



S. rubra, Huds., var. Helix (Linn.). Near Thirsk, Yorks., 

 April and June, 1892. — A. B. Hall. S. Helix, L., is a dubious 

 plant, about which authors are not agreed. He described it in 

 the 1st ed. of the Species Plantarum, p. 1017 (1753). Most 

 British authors have placed it under >S^. rubra, but Prof. Babington 

 makes it a variety of S. purpurea. Whatever the plant of Linnteus 

 may be, Dr. F. B, White in his "Eevision of the British Willows" 

 says that Helix of Smith is a hybrid between ^'-purpurea and 

 viminalis, though much more closely related to the former than the 

 latter." The specimens issued as S. Helix, Engl. Bot. t. 

 1343," by the Eev. J. Leefe (17 and 81) are male plants, and are 

 clearly much nearer purpurea than any other British species. 

 With these Mr. Hall's specimens do not seem to accord, but 

 unfortunately they have no mature leaves, which ought to be 

 gathered in August or September. There seems to be scarcely 

 any approach to vi7ninalis in them, but the difficulty I see in 

 placing them under purpurea is found in the unusual length of 

 style. Here, however, the variation on the same catkin is quite 

 one half as to length. I do not think Mr. Hall's specimens can 

 be called S. Helix, Sm., but rather a form oi purpurea. — A. B. 



S. sp. ? Banks of Gcdbeck, near Thirsk, Yorks., May, 1892.— 

 A. B, Hall. S. viminalis, L. — A. B. 



Fpipactis media, Fr. Copse in private grounds, Witley, Surrey, 

 Aug., 1892. — E. F. Linton. A few plants of E. latifolia, auct., 

 grew in the same piece of woodland, but E. media was the 

 more frequent. The Eev. E. S. Marshall, who was my guide, 



