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become,  even  in  a  good  soil,  which  usually  tends  to 
luxuriance  ;  the  ground  may  have  been  manured.  Careful 
search  should  be  made,  to  ascertain  whether  it  is  not 
truly  wild  somewhere  in  the  neighbourhood  ;  quarries  are 
often  tenanted  by  bona-fide  natives,  whose  seed  has  been 
blown  or  otherwise  conveyed  from  a  considerable  distance. 
Apart  from  my  own  case,  I  have  only  known  one  instance 
of  11.  Auricula  being  grown  in  gardens,  a  clerical  neighbour 
of  mine  in  Surrey  having  brought  it  from  Norway  as  a 
curiosity.  From  its  Continental  distribution  it  should  be 
found  indigenous  in  Britain,  and  its  claims  to  be  so  in 
Wilts,  are  by  no  means  despicable,  as  I  found  it  far  from 
any  house,  though  in  small  quantity ;  and  I  could  not 
detect  it  in  cultivation  anywhere  near. — E.S.M. 
H.  anglicum  Fr.  Dent  Dale,  N.W.  Yorks.,  v.c.  65, 
June  1910.— Coll.  Prof.  Oliver.  Comm.  A.  Ley.  Type.— 
E.F.L. 
H.  anglicum  Fr.,  var.  ccrinthiforme  Backh.  Hartsop, 
Westmorland,  v.c.  69,  July  6,  1910.— A.  Ley.  I  agree.— 
E.F.L.  I  think  that  my  specimens  may  pass.  But  can 
this  name  stand  for  the  variety  ?  It  appears  to  be  long 
antedated  by  one  much  more  descriptive,  i.e.,  var. 
amplexicaule  Backh.  in  Bab.  Man.,  ed.  5,  p.  203  (1862), 
quoted  in  W.  R.  Linton’s  Monograph,  p.  11.  The  later 
name  //.  ccrinthiforme  Backh.  (in  litt.)  was  used  in  a 
specific  sense ;  now  that  the  plant  is  again  reduced  to  a 
variety  it  must,  surely,  disappear. — E.S.M. 
H.  eximium  Backh.,  forma.  (Ref.  No.  3489).  Ben 
More  (at  3000  feet),  Mid  Perth,  v.c.  88,  July  16,  1910. 
Growing  with  H.  chrysanthum ;  very  local.  Styles  sooty; 
hgule-teeth  with  long  ciliee.  Gathered  for  11.  eximium 
Backh.,  to  which  it  may  really  be  referable  ;  but  it  does 
not  exactly  agree  with  any  of  my  fairly  large  and 
thoroughly  representative  series  either  in  heads  or  foliage. 
Undoubtedly  it  belongs  to  the  section  Alpina  Genuina. — 
E.  S.  Marshall.  It  seems  best  to  leave  this  as  H. 
eximium ,  f.  The  phyllaries  are  unusually  broad,  but  I 
see  nothing  to  separate  it  from  that  species.— E.F.L. 
H.  senescens  Backh.  (1)  Ben  More,  Mid  Perth,  v.c.  88, 
scarce,  at  about  3000  feet.  July  16,  1910.— E.  S.  Marshall! 
