489 
Spircea  salicifolia  L.  Shore  of  Ullswater,  Patterdale 
Westmorland,  v.c.  69,  Sept.  8,  1918.— S.  H.  Bickham. 
S.  Ulmaria  L.,  var.  denudata  Boenn.  Tower’s  River 
Walk,  Lindfield,  E.  Sussex,  v.c.  14,  July  28,  1918. _ R  S 
Standen.  Correct.— E.F.L.  &  E.S.M. 
Bubus  nitidus  Wh.  &  N.,  var.  opacus  (Eocke).  Peat 
moor,  near  Meare,  N.  Somerset,  v.c.  6,  Aug.  4,  1913  —  J  W 
White.  Yes  :  characteristic.— W.M.R. 
R.  argenteus  Wh.  &  N.  Accommodation  road,  Sneyd 
Park,  Bristol,  W.  Glos.,  v.c.  34,  July  11  and  Aug.  23,  1913. 
Ida  M.  Roper.  Yes,  these  are  luxuriant  and  very  good 
examples  of  our  common  West  of  England  form. _ W.M.R. 
R.  lacustris  Rogers.  (1)  Hedgerow,  Vale  of  St.  John 
Aug.  25,  1913.  (2)  Roadside,  Threlkeld,  Aug.  25,  19is! 
(d)  Coppice  at  Glencoign,  west  bank  of  Ullswater,  Aug. 
29,  1913.  (4)  Lane-side,  Watermillock,  Sept.  1,  1913  all 
Cumberland,  v.c.  70,  and  (5)  On  slope  above  Ullswater, 
east  side,  Side  Farm  near  Patterdale,  Sept.  2  1913 
Westmorland,  v.c.  69.-S.  H.  Bickham.  I  am  satisfied 
that  all  these  sheets  (34  m  number)  are  rightly  put  to  my 
i?.  lacustris  (“  Jl.  Bot.”  1907,  pp.  9  &  10) ;  but  owing  to 
the  exceptional  circumstances  under  which  they  were 
collected,— in  a  very  dry  autumn  and  after  the  hedges 
had  been  trimmed, — they  are  not  quite  so  easily  dis¬ 
tinguishable  from  R.  Lindebergii  as  usual.  Several  are 
even  conspicuously  uncharacteristic  in  the  very  contracted 
and  elongated  ultra-axillary  panicle,  as  well  as  in  the  less 
compound  leaf-serration — departures  from  my  type  which 
are  quite  natural  under  the  circumstances.  But  even 
ese  exceptionally  uncharacteristic  specimens  are  dis¬ 
tinguishable  enough  from  the  true  Lindebergii  of  the 
Lakes,  as  of  the  rest  of  Britain.  They  are  also  plainly 
distinct  from  Continental  named  “forms,”  of  which  I 
have  a  good  Scandinavian  series  collected  by  Dr.  Elmgvist 
all  of  which  unmistakably  belong  to  Lindebergii  proper’ 
!?  general  habit,  as  well  as  in  stem  leaves  and  flowers. 
Ihese  Continental  forms  or  states  also  have  the  uniformly 
grey  sepals  which  are  characteristic  of  Lindebergii , 
instead  of  the  externally  olive  and  white-margined  ones 
ot  Lacustris ,  which  I  now  consider  to  be  a  variety  of 
Ltindebergn  as  yet  observed  only  at  the  Lakes. — W.M.R. 
