96 
or  hybrid.  The  local  E.  montanum  is  usually  2-3  feet  high. 
W.B.  This  is  E.  montanum,  L.,  forma  minor  aprica, 
Haussknecht ;  merely  a  small  state,  due  to  the  exposed 
situation  and  scarcity  of  soil. — E.S.M. 
E.  roseum  x  obscurum..  Cropstone  Reservoir,  Leics., 
v.c.  55,  July  20,  1905.  This  hybrid,  specimens  of  which 
from  this  locality  were  identified  as  such  by  the  Rev.  E.  S. 
Marshall  for  the  late  Rev.  T.  A.  Preston,  and  recorded  in 
the  “  Trans.  Leic.  Lit.  and  Phil.  Soc.,”  Vol.  III.,  p.  432,  still 
continues  to  flourish  on  the  silty  ground  of  Cropstone 
Reservoir,  growing  in  great  profusion,  and  reaching  a 
height  of  3-4  feet,  as  mentioned  by  Mr.  Preston. — A.  R. 
Horwood.  Rightly  named.  The  lower  leaves  are  not  so 
long-stalked  as  usual,  in  the  specimen  before  me. — E.S.M. 
CEnothera  Lamarkiana,  Ser.  in  DC.  Prod.  III.,  p.  47. 
On  sandy  ground  (formerly  sandhills)  off  Beach  Road,  and 
in  Messrs.  Porritts’  timber  yard,  St.  Anne’s-on-the-Sea, 
W.  Lancs.,  v.c.  60.  Root  leaves,  4th  Aug.  ;  flowering 
stems,  11th  Aug. ;  separate  flowers,  18th  Aug. ;  fruiting 
spikes,  20th  Oct.,  1906.  This  is  an  American  plant  which 
has  long  been  established  on  the  sandhills  at  St.  Anne’s, 
and  is  the  species  which  Prof.  Hugo  de  Vries  has  made  so 
memorable  in  his  recent  work  entitled  u  Die  Mutations- 
theorie.  Versuche  und  Beobachtungen  fiber  die  Entstehung 
von  Arten  im  Pflanzenreich,”  Leipzig,  Vols.  I.  (1901)  and 
II.  (1903).  The  history  of  this  remarkable  plant  formed 
the  subject  of  an  address  which  I  gave  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Manchester  Field  Club,  29th  Jan.,  1907, 
and  when  ready  a  copy  shall  be  sent  to  each  member  of 
the  Club ;  the  plates  which  accompany  the  present  Report 
are  taken  from  the  paper  in  question.  I  have  sent  a 
copious  supply  of  the  plant,  in  its  various  stages,  to  the 
Club,  as  well  as  packets  of  seeds,  so  that  members  who 
have  means  to  cultivate  plants  may  follow  up  the 
experiments  initiated  by  de  Vries.— Charles  Bailey. 
(E.  odorata,  Jacq.  Burnham  Sandhills,  N.  Somerset, 
v.c.  6,  Sept.  14,  1906.  First  recorded  from  there  in  1859. 
— H.  S.  Thompson. 
Carum  segetum,  Benth.  and  Hook.  fil.  Bank  by 
Churchyard,  Hungarton,  Leics.,  v.c.  55,  Aug.  6,  1906.  The 
only  notice  of  this  species  in  the  “  Flora  of  Leics,”  1886,  is 
