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a  “dwarf”  in  the  sense  of  being  squat,  but  merely  a  small 
slender  plant  of  [presumably]  R.  sardous  Crantz  (1768). 
Mr.  Marshall  is  clearly  following  Rouy’s  “  FI.  de  France,” 
where  he  makes  R.  Xatardi  Lapeyr.  (not  Xatartii  as  Rouy 
has  it)  =  R.  Philonotis ,  var.  intermedins  (Ball,  nomen 
nudum)  Cosson,  whose  description  he  takes.  The  Billot 
exsicc.  No.  806  quoted  by  Rouy  disagree  with  Lapeyrouse’s 
description,  and  since  there  is  (see  Clos.  1857)  no  specimen 
of  R.  Xatardi  in  Lapeyrouse’s  herbarium,  it  is  difficult  to 
see  why  Rouy  uses  the  name  in  this  sense.  Philippe,  in 
his  flora  of  the  Pyrenees,  and  Grenier  &  Godron,  “  Flore 
de  France  ”  places  R.  Xatardi  as  a  synonym  of  R.  trilobus 
Desf.  We  have  in  the  Natural  History  Museum  a 
specimen  passed  by  Xatard  himself  as  R.  Xatardi ,  which 
agrees  with  Lapeyrouse’s  description  and  is  clearly  a  form 
close  to  normal  R.  trilobus  with  the  leaves  more  cut  up 
than  usual,  the  deep  cutting  of  the  terminal  lobe  giving 
the  leaves  the  “pinnate”  look  which  Lapevrouse  describes. 
R.  trilobus  (Uesf.  “FI.  atl.”  I.  p.  437,  t.  113)  has  small 
pale  yellow  flowers,  with  the  petals  bearing  a  large  nectary 
scale  and  not  much  exceeding  the  calyx.  The  fruits  are 
small,  tubercular  all  over  both  faces—  not  with  a  marginal 
ring  of  slight  tubercles  as  in  R.  sardous.  The  stems  and 
leaves  are  nearly  glabrous.  Miss  Roper’s  plant  possesses 
all  these  characters  [the  specimen  does  bear  one  ripe 
fruit !]  and  must  therefore  he  so  named.  It  is  doubtless 
an  alien. — A.J.W. 
Helleborus  [ viridis  L.] ,  var.  occidentalis  (Reuter). 
Swansley  Wood,  near  Caxton,  Cambs.,  v.c.  29,  April  3, 
1914. — Coll.  R.  H.  Goode.  Comm.  G.  Goode. 
Papaver  Rhoeas  L.,  var.  Seaford,  E.  Sussex,  v.c.  14, 
June  30,  1914.— R.  S.  Standen.  The  stigma  disc,  etc. 
point  to  Rhoeas,  but  the  hairs  on  stems,  etc.  are  not 
nearly  so  patent  as  usual.  It  must  go  under  var. 
strigosum  Boenn.,  I  believe. —  C.E.S.  The  peduncle-hairs 
on  the  specimen  before  me  are  comparatively  few.  They 
do  not  spread  at  a  right  angle  as  in  the  type,  nor  are 
.  they  decidedly  adpressed  as  in  strigosum  Boenn.  The 
plant  seems  to  be  an  intermediate. — J.W.  W.  Rather 
scrappy ;  no  lower  leaves  are  present.  I  think  it  is 
P.  dubium  x  Rlioeasi — E.S.M.  P.  dubium  x  rhoeas,  one 
of  the  strigosum  forms ;  in  other  words,  a  hybrid  form 
