NOTES AND ABSTEACTS. 



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7. U. stricta Lindley, Synops. 227 (1829). The Cornish Elm. 



8. U. stricta Lindl. var. sarniensis comb. nov. The Jersey Elm 

 (= U. campestris var. sarniensis Loudon, Arhoret. iii. 1376, 1838). 



9. U. glabra Hudson x nitens Moench — (b) x U. vegeta. The 

 Huntingdon Elm (= U. glabra Mill. var. vegeta Loudon, Arhoret. 

 iii. 1404, 1838 = U. vegeta Ley in Journ. Bot. xWui. 68, 1910). 



Of these nine Elms, the first four were founded by Goodyer, so 

 far back as the year 1636, in the so-called " emaculate " edition 

 of Gerard's Herball, really the second edition revised and enlarged by 

 Johnson. The fifth was founded by Plukenet, the sixth by Plot, the 

 seventh by Lindley, and the last two by Loudon. 



Of these, 5 and 9 are considered hybrids ; 6, probably a sport 

 or hybrid and not truly British;, 8, a varietal form of 7. 



Good accounts of the synonomy, descriptions, and herbarium 

 specimens of most of these are given. 



It should be noted that the writer identifies IT. Plotii Druce with 

 U. sativa Miller, and Plot's Elm with U. minor Miller. 



Notes follow on seedhngs — suberosity, roughness and size of leaves, 

 and a key and conspectus conclude this important article. — E. A. B. 



Ulmus Plotii, sp. nov. By G. 0. Druce (Gard. Chron. p. 408, 

 Dec. 9, 1911; 2 figs.). — Description and short Latin diagnosis. 



. By G. S. Boulger, ibid. p. 35, Jan. 20, 1912.— Identi- 

 fying U. Plotii Druce with U. glabra Miller. 



, . By G. 0. Druce, ib. loc. cit. A reply stating that U. Plotii 



Druce has smaller leaves and different habit and time of flowering 

 from those of U. glabra. 



. By G. E. Moss, D.Sc, ibid. p. 216, April 6.— Identify- 



ing U. Plotii Druce with U. sativa Miller. — E. A. B. 



Variation in Foxg^loves. N. 0. Macnamara {Gard. Mag. 

 No. 3035, p. 971, Dec. 30, 1911).— Out of fifty-four plants of Digitalis 

 purpurea raised from seed sown in 1906, fifty-one were normal, but 



i three were sports. In the first the flowers of the lower half of the stem 

 possessed only a bifid upper petal and seven stamens ; the upper part of 



, the spike was normal. 



i In the second all the flowers had a bifid upper petal, seven stamens, 

 and a style. 



In the third — a spike of sixty inches — the flowers consisted of nine 

 1 stamens, a style, but no vestige of petals. Seeds from these sports 

 produced their like in 1909, with the addition of terminal flowers totally 

 different from the parent. Seeds from these terminals produced their 

 like in 1911, so that two distinct strains have now been obtained. 



E. B. 



I Viburnum. By E. Gienapp (Oestr. Gart. Zeit. vol. vi. pt. ix. 

 I pp. 327-9; 1 plate). — Viburnum Opulus sterile (the snowball tree) likes 

 I a sunny position and plenty of nourishment. It flowers on the new 

 I wood and requires pruning once in two or three years. — S. E. W. 



