884 
Mr.  Standen’s  plant  agrees  admirably.  The  variety  is 
dropped  in  recent  editions  of  Babington’s  “Manual.” — 
E.S.M. 
Vicia  hybrida  L.  Downs,  near  Walmer,  E.  Kent, 
v.c.  15,  May  27,  1908. — L.  Day.  Mr.  Bickham  sent  me 
the  plant  some  years  ago  from  this  station,  where  it  seems 
to  be  native.  In  France,  however,  it  is  considered  to  be 
so  only  in  the  south.  Rouy  has  named  this  species  V. 
Linncei,  on  the  ground  that  it  is  not  a  hybrid  !— E.S.M. 
Prunus  domestica  L.  Undercliff,  Portishead,  N. 
Somerset,  v.c.  6,  April  18  and  July  1,  1911.  This  is  an 
undoubtedly  native  locality  for  the  wild  plum.  It  occurs 
in  abundance,  which  is  unusual  where  there  are  no 
suspicious  circumstances  about  the  position. — Ida  M. 
Boper.  The  characters  of  this  specimen  do  not  seem  to 
fit  our  normal  P.  domestica  at  all  well  in  some  respects, 
so  far  as  books  go,  though  of  course  one  ought  to  see  the 
ripe  fruit.  My  herbarium  examples  of  P.  domestica  have 
a  smooth  and  more  or  less  shining  bark,  very  unlike  the 
dull,  pubescent  twigs  of  this  Portishead  plant. — E.S.M. 
The  plum  trees  at  Portishead  have,  for  many  years,  been 
under  observation  by  Mr.  David  Fry  and  myself ;  and  the 
late  Rev.  Augustin  Ley  agreed  with  us  that  they  afforded 
as  good  an  illustration  of  native  P.  domestica  as  was  likely 
to  be  met  with.  They  are  trees ;  are  not  spinous ;  the 
flowers  and  fruit  are  larger  than  those  of  the  bullace,  and 
the  fruit  is  of  a  different  shape.  Still,  Mr.  Marshall’s 
criticism  is  quite  just,  and  it  is  to  be  feared  that  satis¬ 
factory  typical  specimens  of  the  various  forms  in  this 
aggregate  must  be  rare.  Without  doubt  there  exists-  a 
long  series  of  intermediates  that  connect  our  plum,  bullace 
and  sloe  as  described  in  books.  This  is  wTell  shown  by 
Rouy  and  Foucaud  in  their  “  Flore  de  France,”  where 
sixty  or  seventy  named  segregates  in  this  group  are 
mentioned  ! — J.W.W. 
Spircea  TJlmaria  L.,  var.  denudata  Boenn.  Moor, 
Walton  by  Clevedon.  N.  Somerset,  v.c.  6,  July  25,  1911, — 
Ida  M.  Roper.  Correct. — E.S.M. 
Rubus.  “Mixed  pieces”  are  unfortunately  still  so 
frequent  in  gatherings  of  this  genus,  and  in  some  cases 
