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77.  •  Railway  bank  near  Dalmeny,  Linlithgowsh., 
v.c.  84,  May  28,  1910.  On  railway  embankment.  Some 
two  inches  under  the  surface  the  soil  was  bard  and  largely 
mixed  with  cinders,  which  may  be  sufficient  to  account  for 
the  direction  of  the  rootstock,  which  seems  to  me  often  to 
depend  upon  edaphic  conditions,  and  not  always  to  be 
relied  upon  as  a  specific  distinction.— McT.  Cowan,  jun. 
Rootstock  elongate,  horizontal;  clearly  a  form  of  the 
R.  Steveni  Andrz.  group.  In  the  absence  of  fruit  no  more 
can  be  safely  suggested. — E.S.M. 
R.  bulbosus  L.,  form.  Chalk  Downs,  Freshwater, 
I.W.,  v.c.  10,  June,  1910.— H.  E.  Fox.  For  me  this  is 
merely  a  state  of  situation.  Superficially,  at  least, 
it  closely  resembles  Mr.  Druce’s  plant  from  the  sand 
dunes,  St.  Ouen’s  Bay,  Jersey;  which  he  describes  in 
B.E.C.  Rept.,  1910,  p.  495,  as  a  new  variety,  dunense 
[dunensis]  Druce :  adding  that  it  is  “  near  to  R.  valde- 
pubens  Jord.,  of  which  it  may  be  a  dune-form.  Differs 
from  R.  bulbosus  by  its  shorter  growth  and  larger  flowers, 
its  conn  being  more  densely  clothed,  and  the  leaves  and 
petioles  being  covered  with  long  shaggy  hairs.”  I  think 
that  the  characters  relied  upon  are  such  as  may  well  be 
due  to  local  conditions  ;  but  my  Jersey  specimens  are  so 
young  that  they  hardly  warrant  a  definite  opinion. — 
E.S.M. 
Aconitum  Napellus  L.  Whithorn,  Wigtownsh.,  v.c.  74, 
Aug.  1910. — Coll.  R.  Dew.  Comm.  D.  M.  Higgins. 
Corydalis  claviculata  DC.  Brooklands  Motor  Race¬ 
course,  Weybridge,  Surrey,  v.c.  17,  July  15,  1910.  Sent 
because  of  its  very  peculiar  habit. — Coll.  Rev.  E.  Foord- 
Kelcev.  Comm.  F.  L.  Foord-Kelcey.  This  is  merely 
stunted,  owing  to  the  situation.  There  is  a  var.  minor  in 
Rouy  and  Foucaud’s  “  FI.  de  France,”  I.,  p.  188,  but  their 
description  does  not  tally  with  this  plant.— E.S.M. 
Fumaria  purpurea  Pugsley.  Allotment  gardens, 
Malvern,  Worcs.,  v.c.  37,  Sept.  9,  1910.— S.  H.  Bickham. 
This  is  correctly  named,  and  the  specimens  are  fairly 
typical,  except  that  the  sepals  are  more  than  usually 
toothed. — H.W.P. 
