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L.  humile  Mill.  Bosham  Creek,  W.  Sussex,  v.c.  18, 
Aug.  25,  1909. — R.  S.  Standen.  Excellent  humile. — C.E.S. 
L.  humile  x  vulgare.  Bosham  Creek,  W.  Sussex, 
v.c.  13,  Aug.  25,  1909. — R.  S.  Standen.  The  one  example 
sent  me  seems  a  very  good  intermediate.  It  has  the 
general  colouring  of  L.  vulgare  and  its  spreading  spikes, 
but  the  arrangement  of  spikelets,  branching  of  scape,  etc. 
is  entirely  that  of  L.  humile.  The  young  capsules  seem 
to  contain  no  good  seed. — C.E.S. 
Gentaurium  pulchellum  Druce,  forma.  (Ref.  No. 
1854).  Berry  Head,  S.  Devon,  v.c.  8,  Aug.  9,  1909.  A 
dwarf  subcapitate  form  growing  in  short  turf.  C.  urnbel- 
latum,  which  grew  with  it,  retained  its  normal  form  and 
did  not  approach  its  variety  capitatum.  It  seems  to  be 
either  Erythrcea  pulchella  Fr.,  forma  littoralis  vulgaris 
Wittr.,  “  sepals,  petals,  and  stamens  often  tetramerous,” 
or  E.  pulchella ,  f.  contracta  Wittr.,  “  internodes  scarcely 
or  not  developed,  little  branched.”  The  flowers  in  these 
specimens  are  both  tetramerous  and  pentamerous,  the 
former  predominating  and  not  confined  to  the  smaller 
examples.— A.  H.  Wolley-Dod.  A  small  state,  frequent 
on  our  exposed  coasts. — E.S.M.  The  form  this  species 
assumes  on  the  short  turf  of  pastures  exposed  to  sea 
breezes ;  very  different  looking  to  the  more  simple  erect 
form  of  damp  flats  not  so  exposed. — E.F.L. 
Gentiana  germanica  Willd.  Harlington,  Beds.,  v.c. 
30,  Aug.  25,  1909. — D.  M.  Higgins.  Yes. — E.S.M. 
Symphytum  officinale  L.,  var .patens  (Sibth.).  Broad¬ 
way,  near  Weymouth,  Dorset,  v.c.  9,  Sept.  17,  1909.— Coll. 
R.  H.  Goode.  Comm.  G.  Goode.  I  have  never  seen  patens 
with  such  blue  flowers  (they  are  usually  pinkish  to  dingy- 
purple),  nor  with  such  harsh,  scabrid  leaves;  the  late 
flowering-season  is  also  against  its  being  a  S.  officinale 
form .  De  Candolle  in  his  Prodr omus  gives  var.  purpureum 
Tausch  as  equivalent  to  S.  patens  Sibth.  I  suspect  this 
Weymouth  plant  to  be  some  other  species,  but  cannot 
suggest  a  name.— E.S.M.  I  should  say  certainly  S.  offici¬ 
nale,  var.  patens  (Sibth.).  There  is  a  specimen  exactly 
like  it  in  the  British  Museum  Herbarium,  collected  by  the 
Rev.  E.  S.  Marshall  at  Tilford,  Surrey,  June  14,  1898,  and 
so  named  by  him.  The  flowers  are  too  small  for  S. 
