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i?. Ruhmeri : " Two forms of this hybrid He before me. One 

 has the habit of R. sanguineus, with erecto-patent short 

 branches, whose few-flowered whorls are leafy almost to the 

 apex. Flowers nearly all sterile, and easily falling off ; 

 mature fruits occur only very sparsely, and their inner fruiting 

 sepals have entire margins and roundish-oblong unequally 

 developed tubercles. Collected near Lobitz, near Osterfeld, 

 and near Zeutsch. The other form, observed between 

 Zobschen and Unterkaka near Osterfeld is much taller, with 

 many stems, with much elongated more flexuous erecto-patent 

 branches, leafy to about two-thirds their length. Whorls few- 

 flowered, some of them quite sterile, others with 1-4 mature 

 fruits. Inner fruiting sepals with 2 rather small and 1 rather 

 large broadish wart ; nuts apparently well-developed, but for 

 the most part empty. I observed similar forms also on the 

 Ettersberg. On account of such forms as the above, the two 

 species were previously united by many botanists.*' I doubt 

 Mr. Reader's plant being either of the forms of the hybrid — 

 the fruit is too good for one thing. It is a very interesting 

 plant and I very much doubt if there is a published name that 

 will exactly fit it. — E. G. Baker. 



Euphorbia pilosa, L. Border of wood, Prior Park, Bath, 

 June 6, 1898. — J. W. White. A very beautiful set of this rare 

 spurge and most carefully dried. 



Mercuvialis anmia, L. var. amhigua, L. Goldstone Bottom, 

 Hove, E. Sussex, Oct., 1900.— T. Hilton. New to Div. III. 

 of Arnold's Sussex Flora. 



Urtica dioica, L. var. augustifolia, Blytt. (1) Chalk pit, 

 Stanmer Park, E. Sussex, 1900. (2) Polegate, roadside, E. 

 Sussex, Aug., 1900. — T. Hilton. In both gatherings the leaves 

 are narrower than usual, but are not of the shape of those of 

 Blytt's plant.— A.B. and E.S. and C.E.S. 



Betula nana, L. N.E. base of Ben Loyal, v.c. 108, W. 

 Sutherland, 7/8/1900.— E. S. Marshall. 



B. alpestris, Fries ! (B. nana [male] x puhescens [female] , 

 probably). Ref.No.2449. N.E. base of Ben Loyal, v.c. 108, W. 

 Sutherland, at 800 feet.i with parents, 7/8/1900.— E. S. Marshall. 

 An addition to the British Flora (see Journ. Bot., 1901, p. 271), 



Salix cinerea? Hedge at Cofton, Worcestershire, May 26, 

 1900.— H. S. Thompson. Is S. triandra, L.— E. F. Linton. 



5. Arbuscitla, L. (Fide E. F. Linton). Cliffs above Lochan 

 na Lairag, Killin, Perth, Aug. 2, 1900.— D. T. Playfair. 



5. reticulata, L. Creag na Lochan, Killin, Perth, Aug. 2, 

 1900.— D. T. Playfair. Right.— E.F.L. 



