356 
petites,  ordinairement  maculees  de  blanc  on  de  noir, 
rarement  vertes.”  I  grow  the  plant  commonly  called 
L.  maculatum ,  and  its  leaves  are  always  blotched  with 
white.  Koch  (Synopsis,  ed.  II.,  649)  says  that  L.  laevi- 
gatum  L.  (Sp.  Plant.,  808),  according  to  Bentham, — who 
examined  the  Linnean  Herbarium  for  this  [L.  laevigatum 
Reichb.]  and  L.  maculatum, — does  not  differ  [from  the 
type] ;  but  so  many  of  the  Linnean  specimens  are  badly 
dried  and  scrappy  that  I  do  not  believe  that  his  opinion 
carries  much  weight.  The  aggregate  species  is  common 
in  France,  especially  westwards,  and  occurs  in  Spain, 
Portugal,  Belgium,  Holland,  etc.;  so  there  is  no  prima 
facie  reason  why  it  should  not  be  indigenous  in  England. 
— E.S.M. 
Plantago  lanceolata  L.,  var.  [ Timbali  Reichb.  fil.] . 
Blackford  Hill,  Edinburghsh.,  v.c.  83,  May  21,  1911 _ 
McT.  Cowan,  junr.  This  name,  which  has  been  on  the 
British  list  some  years,  does  not  seem  to  be  noticed  by 
Dr.  Williams  in  his  “  Prod.  FI.  Brit.,”  pt.  7,  1909 _ A.B. 
This  is  not  P.  Timbali  Jordan  Pugillus,  p.  138.  It  appears 
to  us  to  be  P.  lanceolata  L.,  var.  major  Syme.  The  true 
P.  Timbali  of  Jordan  is  a  much  smaller  plant  with 
narrow  lanceolate-linear  or  linear  leaves,  which  are  3-5 
nerved,  glabrous  or  with  adpressed  hairs,  sublanate  at 
the  base ;  the  scapes  are  erect  or  ascending  ;  the  spikes 
oblong-cylindrical,  dense,  short ;  the  bracts  ovate,  attenuate 
acuminate,  green  on  the  back,  the  rest  white,  scarious ; 
the  anterior  segments  of  the  calyx  are  very  obtuse,  the 
posterior  boatshaped  and  scarious.  The  specimens  in  the 
National  collection  at  Kensington  from  Timbal-Lagrave 
agree  with  Jordan’s  description,  but  do  not  agree  with 
var.  Timbali  figured  in  Syme’s  “  English  Botany.”— 
R.M.C.  &  E.G.B. 
P.  maritima  L.,  var.  Glen  Isla,  E.  Perthsh.,  v.c.  89, 
Sept.  1911. — McT.  Cowan,  junr.  This  is,  I  believe, 
identical  with  Mr.  Beeby’s  Shetland  plant,  which  Prof.  J. 
Lange  named  forma  procerior. — E.S.M.  This  is  forma 
procerior  Lange,  but  it  is*  also  var.  tenuifolia  Hartman, 
an  earlier  name _ E.G.B. 
P.  Coronopus  L.,  [var.  ceratophyllon  Rapin] .  Sea 
bank  at  Charmouth,  Dorset,  v.c.  9,  Aug.  17,  1911.  From 
