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evidently  a  clerical  error  for  Cicendia  (=  Microcala ) 
filiformis. — McT.C. 
Gentiana  prtxcox  Towns.  Chalk  Downs,  Freshwater, 
Isle  of  Wight,  v.c.  10,  June,  1910.— H.  E.  Fox.  This  is 
G.  lingulata  C.  A.  Agardh,  var.  prcecox  “  Towns.,”  Murbeck. 
I  studied  it  carefully  in  Wiltshire,  where  it  is  usually 
associated  with  G.  Amarella  L.,  and  came  to  the  decided 
conclusion  that  they  were  specifically  distinct.  Probably 
all  the  alleged  south-country  inland  stations  given  for 
G.  campestris  L.  belong  to  this  plant,  which  usually  sheds 
its  seeds  before  G.  Amarella  is  in  flower. — E.S.M. 
Amsinckia  angustifolia  (Lehm.).  Mill  yard,  Portis- 
head,  N.  Somerset,  v.c.  6,  May  22,  1909.— Ida  M.  Roper. 
Symphytum  peregrinum  Ledeb.  (=  S.  uplandicum 
Nym.,  S.  orientals  Fr.,  non  Linn.).  Near  stables  on  the 
outskirts  of  a  wood  on  the  north  side  of  Southam  House, 
between  Prestbury  and  Bishop’s  Cleeve,  near  Cheltenham, 
N.E.  Glos.,  v.c.  33.  Flowering  cymes,  June  2  and  3; 
fruiting  cymes,  July  26;  and  root-leaves,  Sept.  28  and 
Oct.  15,  1910.  I  have  met  with  individual  examples  of 
the  same  plant  at  Woodmancote,  near  Bishop’s  Cleeve, 
v.c.  33,  July  29,  1910,  and  at  Broadway,  S.E.  Worcs.,  v.c. 
36,  July  10,  1909.  There  is  some  doubt  as  to  the  correct 
nomenclature  of  this  plant.  I  distributed  Derbyshire 
examples  of  this  species,  under  the  same  name,  to  British 
botanists  as  long  ago  as  1878.— Charles  Bailey.  S.  up¬ 
landicum  seems  to  be  synonymous  with  asperrimum ,  but 
this  plant  is  not  that.  Structure  of  calyx  quite  different. 
J.W.W.  Ledebour  described  S.  peregrinum  from  plants 
cultivated  in  the  Botanic  Gardens  of  Dorpat,  in  the 
Russian  Baltic  provinces,  but  they  were  in  all  probability 
originally  obtained  from  the  Caucasian  Province  of  Talish 
on  the  western  shore  of  the  Caspian  Sea.  So  much 
speculation  has  been  made  as  to  the  cultural  and 
geographical  origin  of  the  semi-wild  Comfrey  of  this 
country  that  it  is  well  to  bear  in  mind  that  the  actual 
plants  described  by  Ledebour  were  probably  from  S.E. 
Russia,  which  is  also  the  home  of  S  caucasicum  and  of 
S.  asperrimum.— S.T.D.  I  have  no  doubt  that  this  is 
correctly  named  S.  peregrinum  Ledeb.  It  is  described  and 
figured  in  a  paper  on  the  Caucasian  species  of  the  genus 
