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S. JacohcBa, L. var. floscidosus. (Jord). Coalbackie, near 

 Tongue, v.c. 108, W. Sutherland, 3/8/1900.— E. S. Marshall. 



Arctium . Woodchester Park, Glos., 8/1900.— H. 



P. Reader. A. majus. — E.S. and C.E.S. 



Cavdiius cfispus x nutans [Newhouldi, H. C. Wats.). Reigate 

 Hill, Surrey, July, 1900. — A. S. Crosfield. I should say cer- 

 tainly cvispus X nutans. It is practically the same as a Kent 

 plant of mine, confirmed by Dr. Focke. Not acanthoides, as 

 understood on the Continent. — E. S. Marshall. This will not 

 do for Newbould's and Watson's plant. Thathcts the anthodes 

 naked at the base for about f-inch, the whole plant more 

 arachnoid, and the anthodes subsolitary, etc. (see Eng. Bot. t. 

 685 for the true plant). I do not see how Mr. Crosfield's plant 

 differs from crispus; it is really nearer to var. polyanthenios Godr. 

 of Syme's Eng. Bot. than to var. litzgiosus, G. and G., which 

 is somewhat like the nutans x crispus. — A.B. 



Mariana lactea, Hill. Originally from Little Weighton, 

 Hort. De Grey St., Hull, E. Yorks., June, 1900.— C. Water- 

 fail. The information regarding these specimens is not readily 

 accessible on Mr. Waterfall's label, but they presumably came 

 from some locality where it was more or less obviously a 

 garden escape. In Northern Europe all writers seem to agree 

 that the species is an introduction. Hooker in his Student's 

 Flora derives it from the Mediterranean regign and the Orient. 

 I have seen it growing on the barren sun-baked hills about 

 Perpignan, in S. France, under circumstances that seemed 

 conclusive as to its nativity there. De Candolle has, however, 

 pointed out in his Geographic Botanique that it cannot have 

 been known to the ancients, who would have had a name for so 

 conspicuous a plant, whereas its surviving names are all con- 

 nected with Christianity. He, thinks it may have been intro- 

 duced from the East by the Crusaders.— S. T. Dunn. 



Centauvea Jacea, L. Paddock, Hassocks, E. Sussex, June, 

 1900. — T. Hilton. Correct. Arnold considers it indigenous 

 in meadows in Sussex ; while Watson placed it in his Alien 

 class throughout the whole of Britain. It is undoubtedly 

 native in Normandy and Belgium, and it would be interesting 

 for some local botanist to investigate its claims as a native of 

 Sussex more fully. — S.T.D. 



C. nigra, L. var. decipiens, Thuill. Arundel, W. Sussex, 

 Aug., 1900. — T. Hilton. No, the radiant form of nigra only.— 

 E.S. & C.E.S. 



Arnoseris pusi/la, Gaertn. Sandy field, Habberley, near 

 Kidderminster, Worcestershire, June, 1897. — E. Cleminshaw. 

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