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C.  H.  Waddell.  See  note  on  No.  13,  which  includes  this 
No.  17.  W.B.  Better  under  B.  platyphylla  Rau  with 
No.  13.— A.  H.  W.-D. 
B.  stylosa  Desv.,  var.  systyla  (Bast.).  Shillingstone, 
Dorset,  v.c.  9,  Sept.  13,  1915. — W.  Moyle  Rogers.  Yes. — 
W.B.  Very  typical  but  for  the  smooth  peduncles,  which 
would  make  it  var.  corymbosa  Desv. — A. H. W.-D. 
Saxifraga  Geum  L.  Hort.  “  Caradon,”  Southampton, 
Hants.,  May  30,  1915.  Originally  brought  two  years  ago 
from  Glencar,  Co.  Kerry,  by  Mr.  Arnold  Eliott,  and  trans¬ 
planted  to  a  fresh  rockery  in  Sept.,  1914. — H.  S.  Thompson. 
One  of  the  two  specimens  received  may  be  small  S.  Geum , 
var.  serrata  Syme ;  but  I  suspect  that  there  is  some 
admixture  of  S.  hirsuta.  The  other  is,  I  feel  sure,  a.  very 
small  form  of  S.  Geum  X  hirsuta ;  the  leaves  are  decidedly 
broader  than  long,  and  their  bases  vary  from  shallowly 
cordate  to  truncate. — E.S.M. 
S.  Sternbergii  Willd.  Hort.  “  Caradon,”  Southampton, 
Hants.,  May  30,  1915.  Originally  brought  two  years  ago 
by  Mr.  Arnold  Eliott  from  Brandon  Head,  Co.  Kerry,  and 
transplanted  in  Sept.,  1914,  to  a  fresh  rockery. — H.  S. 
Thompson.  This  closely  approaches  the  County  Clare 
plants  so  named  (Black  Head  and  Ballyryan) ;  but  typical 
S.  Sternbergii ,  as  figured  by  .  Sternberg  from  his  original 
*  cultivated  plant,  differs  greatly,  and  I  rather  doubt 
whether  they  can  be  specifically  identical.  I  have  in 
cultivation  a  Saxifrage,  from  near  the  summit  of  Brandon 
Mountain  (Ref.  No.  3649),  which  exactly  agrees  with 
Sternberg’s  figure  of  his  cultivated  plant  ;  it  is  likewise 
bright  green,  but  the  petals  are  broader  and  rounder, 
never  pinkish  (as  in  the  present  case)  ;  the  sepals  broad 
and  obtuse  ;  the  leaf-segments  broad  and  blunt  :  so  that 
it  comes  much  nearer  to  S.  rosacea  Moench  ( decipiens 
Ehrh.  ;  palmata  Sm.)  in  characters,  though  clearly  distinct 
from  that.  In  a  wild  state  it  is  densely  caespitose ;  under 
cultivation  it  becomes  somewhat  laxer,  but  less  so  than 
in  the  Clare  and  Brandon  Head  examples. — E.S.M. 
Bibes  Grossularia  L.  Wood,  near  Sea  Mills,  Bristol, 
W.  Glos.,  v.c.  34,  Apr.  29,  1915. — H.  S.  Thompson. 
