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year  plenty  of  new  plants  grow  on  the  usual  slopes  and 
on  many  ledges  in  the  old  limestone  quarries  thereabout. 
—Ida  M.  Roper. 
Gardamine  pratensis  L.,  var.  palustris  Peterm.  f. 
Anninghall,  nr.  Norwich,  E.  Norfolk,  v.c.  27,  April,  1910. 
On  March  25,  1908,  Mr.  Arthur  Bennett  wrote  as  follows 
regarding  specimens  of  this  plant  I  then  gathered:— 
“  The  specimen  sent  is  Cardamine  palustris  Peterm.,  near 
var.  dentata.  The  true  C.  pratensis  L.  is  not  figured  in 
‘Eng.  Bot.’,  but  is  in  the  ‘Flora  Danica.’  In  England 
we  do  not  consider  the  difference  sufficient  to  constitute  a 
species,  so  we  should  name  your  plant  G.  pratensis  L.,  var. 
palustris  Peterm.  f.”— F.  Long.  As  far  as  the  material 
(flower  and  very  young  fruit)  goes,  this  agrees  rather  well 
with  Rouy  and  Foucaud’s  description  of  C.  dentata 
Schultes ,  to  which  these  authors  refer  with  some  doubt 
the  later  C.  palustris  Peterm.  (1849);  but  they  remark  in 
a  footnote  (“FI.  de  France,”  I.,  238)  that  according  to 
Haussknecht  and  Focke  C.  palustris  Peterm.  is  a  hybrid 
of  C.  amara  and  G.  pratensis,  resembling  the  non-hybrid 
G.  dentata  Schultes.  The  flowers  of  dentata  are  described 
by  them  as  “  white  or  pink,  large.”  In  my  specimen  of 
Mr.  Long’s  gathering  they  are  remarkably  large  and 
pinkish. — E.  S.  M. 
Erophila  verna  E.  Meyer,  var.  (1)  Hallaton,  Leics., 
v.c.  55,  May  26,  1910. — A.  R.  Horwood.  The  pods 
look  rather  inflated,  bub  it  is  hopeless,  I  think,  to  try  and 
name  Erophilas  without  root  leaves! — C.  E.  S.  The 
three  specimens  sent  to  me  are  past  flowering.  I  think 
that  they  can  only  be  called  E.  verna ,  though  the  capsules 
are  sometimes  rather  narrow,  thus  simulating  E.  steno- 
earpa  Jord.,  while  others  on  the  same  individual  are 
broader.  They  seem  to  be  somewhat  starved ;  this  would 
account  for  any  deviation  from  type. — E.  8.  M.  (2) 
Glooston,  Leics.,  May  26,  1910.— A.  R.  Horwood.  Here, 
again,  the  capsules  vary  considerably ;  some  are  narrow 
and  attenuate  at  both  ends,  recalling  E.  stenocarpa ; 
whereas  others  are  shorter  and  more  rounded,  approaching 
E.  pr&cox  DC.  This  appears  to  indicate  insufficient 
nourishment;  I  believe  them  to  be  E.  verna  (vulaaris 
DC.).— E.S.M.  V  J 
