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Supplement to Reporty 1896-97. 



Bartsia Odontites^ Huds. (Ref. Nos. 1 and 2). "I 

 think thej are B. serotiiia (Reichb.)" — A. B. 



Mentha . Nutfield Green, Surrey, Sep. 17, 



1896.— E. S. Salmon. The Rev. W. R. Linton, to whom 

 specimens were sent, reported as follows : — " It is appa- 

 rently sterile, the oldest calyces on the specimens sent me 

 show no sign of the ovary forming fruit ; hence it is probably 

 a hybrid. Sativa is a hybrid of liirsuta with arvensis, and 

 invariably sterile, but I suppose sativa pollen might 

 fertilize rubra. Your plant approaches sativa in being 

 more hairy than rubra ; the pedicels are in the majority of 

 cases slightly pubescent with reflexed hairs. The deep 

 cutting and perhaps the shape (narrow) of the leaves 

 belongs to sativa rather than rubra. Therefore I suggest 

 that the plant may be a rubra x sativa form, though with 

 hesitation." 



