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V.  Riviniana  x  sylvestris.  Wood  Bank,  Great 
Doward  Hill,  Herefordsh.,  April  and  July,  1910.  Flowering 
abundantly  at  the  earlier  date,  but  almost  or  quite  barren. 
— A.  Ley.  My  material  is  rather  scrappy,  but  looks  right ; 
the  foliage  approaches  V.  Riviniana,  the  floral  characters 
seem  to  be  fairly  intermediate. — E.S.M.  Mr.  Ley’s  plant 
is,  I  think,  a  distinct  variety  of  V.  sylvestris.  I  have  had 
this  var.  under  cultivation  for  25  years ;  it  has  increased 
considerably,  but  has  in  no  wise  altered  in  any  of  its 
original  characters.  A  furrowed  spur  is  a  constant  feature, 
which  no  doubt  gave  rise  to  the  impression  of  its  being  a 
Riviniana  hybrid.  As  such  I  cannot,  however,  regard  it, 
else  why  should  it  dominate  districts  where  V.  Riviniana 
is  not  present  ?  It  approaches,  in  some  important  respects, 
to  V.  arenicola  Chabert,  but  breaks  down  in  (1)  lower 
leaves  larger,  not  obtuse,  nor  wholly  glabrous ;  (2)  central 
rosette  has  often  flowers  as  well  as  leaves ;  (8)  upper 
stipules  do  not  exceed  the  petioles  they  subtend,  nor  are 
they  entire.  It  is,  no  doubt,  the  sub-var.  punctata  of  V. 
sylvestris ,  given  in  Rouy  et  Foucaud  “  FI.  France,”  III,  p.  18, 
which  is  described  as  having  “  Petale  inferieur  marque 
a  la  base  d’une  tache  violette,”  and  better  described  by 
Boenninghausen  (“Prod.  Monasteriensis  Westphalorum”) 
under  V.  canina  L.,  /3  maculata,  in  these  terms  “  floribus 
minoribus  pallidis  ad  basin  petalorum  maculis  satura- 
tioribus.” — E.S.G. 
V.  [saxatilis  Schmidt,  var.  lepida  (Jord.)] .  Flowering 
in  a  field  after  flax  was  pulled,  Saintfield,  Co.  Down,  Oct. 
4,  1910. — C.  H.  Waddell.  This  is  apparently  annual, 
whereas  V.  saxatilis  and  its  varieties  are  at  least  sub¬ 
perennial.  What  Dr.  Drabble  has  named  for  me  as 
V.  lepida  Jord.  has  much  larger  flowers  and  a  more  robust 
habit,  though  the  colouring  is  very  similar. — E.S.M.  This 
is  not  lepida.  It  is  very  obviously  an  annual  plant,  being 
(at  all  events  in  the  two  plants  sent  to  me)  quite  devoid  of 
the  subterranean  perennating  branches  which  are  so 
characteristic  of  lepida.  It  comes  under  my  group  of  the 
Tricolores.  I  am  not  prepared  now  to  give  it  a  name, 
though  I  have  seen  specimens  from  Scotland,  and  am  quite 
familiar  with  the  plant. — E.D. 
Polygala - ?  Near  Aberystwyth,  Cardigansh.,  v.c. 
46,  Aug.,  1910. — W.  R.  Sherrin.  P.  serpyllacea  Weihe. — 
