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Hypochoeris  maculata  L.  Rocky  downs,  Ky nance, 
W.  Cornwall,  v.c.  1,  July,  1889. — Coll.  J.  W.  Rimington. 
Comm.  S.  H.  Bickham. 
Taraxacum  officinale  Weber,  var.  affine  (Jord.).  Per- 
ranporth  Sandhills,  W.  Cornwall,  v.c.  1,  May  6,  1911. 
Fide  A.  Bennett. — F.  H.  Davey.  I  do  not  know  this 
plant,  which  Jordan  published  as  a  species.  My  two 
specimens  each  bear  one  flower-head,  without  fruit ;  they 
have  been  subjected  to  excessive  pressure,  so  that  the 
characters  cannot  be  properly  made  out.  The  general 
appearance  is  that  of  T.  officinale ,  dwarfed  by  an  uncon¬ 
genial  habitat. — E.S.M.  Jordan’s  affine  is  described  as 
having  the  outer  involucral  scales  “  lanceole-lineaires 
laches  etalees  a  pointe  redressee,  quelques-unes  reflechies,” 
which  will  not  fit  Mr.  Davey’s  plant.  It  looks  to  me 
rather  like  T.  palustre  DC.,  but  that  is  usually  a  plant 
of  marshes,  not  sandhills.  It  looks  quite  interesting  and 
well  worth  working  out,  but  my  examples  are  rather  too 
scanty  and  more  flattened  out  than  is  desirable. — C.E.S. 
T.  erythrospermum  Andrz.,  var.  laevigatum  (DC.) 
Downs  near  Swanage,  Dorset,  v.c.  9,  Aug.  1911. — H.  E. 
Fox.  This  is  the  plant  we  always  called  “  var.  erythros¬ 
permum  Andrz.”,  and  which  I  understand  Handel-Mazzetti 
considers  synonymous  with  T.  laevigatum  DC.  So  the 
plant  can  hardly  be  labelled  as  Mr.  Fox  suggests. — C.E.S. 
Erica  cinerea  L.,  forma.  Carnon  Croft,  near  Truro, 
W.  Cornwall,  v.c.  1,  Sept.  2,  1911.  A  striking  form  with 
long  and  densely  flowered  racemes.  It  was  seen  in  situ 
by  members  of  the  International  Phytogeographical 
Excursion,  all  of  whom  considered  it  deserving  a  name. 
I  have  seen  it  in  other  parts  of  the  county,  but  nowhere 
so  fine  as  at  Carnon  Croft,  where  it  has  the  company  of 
E.  ciliaris  and  E.  ciliaris  x  Tetralix. — F.  H.  Davey.  A 
beautiful  form  with  crowded  whorls  and  much  exserted 
styles,  but  I  think  only  a  form. — E.F.L.  A  very  beautiful 
form,  which,  if  it  keeps  constant ,  should  deserve  a 
distinguishing  name. — C.E.S.  This  striking  form  is 
characteristic  of  the  mild,  moist  districts  of  south-western 
England  and  western  Ireland.  It  is  abundant,  for 
example,  in  Connemara.  In  the  drier  eastern  England 
the  form  of  E.  cinerea  is  very  insignificant  compared  with 
