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New Phyt. 315, 1911. My Kea Down plant may be defined as having 

 branches ending in sub-terminal racemes of showy flowers, much 

 larger than in type, and with the leaves about 8 mm. long, 

 loosely arranged on the branches. Corolla grandi (7 x 4 — 5 mm.), 

 inflata, roseo-purpurea ; racemis densis, plerumque sub-capitalis, 

 interdnm longis. 



var. anandra, as type, but without corolla or stamens (neque 

 corollam neque stamina habet). Longleat, Wilts, Marchioness of 

 Bath in Herb. Sowerby. See Garry Notes on E.B. Drawings for 

 Eng. Bot. and Journ. Bot. 47, 1872. Although keeping constant in 

 cultivation this appears to be a monstrosity rather than a true 

 variety. G. C. Druce. 



1695. Erica Tetralix L., var. : given in the List as % x 

 Craufordii, proves to be the forma flore pleno, the inflorescence con- 

 sisting of two or three corollas, one inside the other. 



sub-var. parviplora. Flowers small, 5 — 2.5 mm. in dense heads : 

 leaves about 5 mm. long, sparingly ciliate. Floribus parvis, 5 mm. 

 longis, 2.5 mm. latis, dense capitatis ; foliis plus quam 5 mm. 

 longis, parce ciliatis. Lizard Downs, with the type. 



var. (or lusus) piss a mihi. Corollis profunde quadripartitis. 

 Found by Mr Seton Gordon on Ben MacDhui, 3000 feet, Aberdeen- 

 shire, 1913, vide spec. G. C. Druce. 



1763. Gf.ntiana Amarella L. (G. axillaris Murbeck) nov. var. 

 calycina. Planta 15 — 25 cm. alta est, foliis 10 mm. latis, 25 mm. 

 longis, pal lido- viridibus ; corolla alba, violaceo-purpureo colore tincta ; 

 calyx subaequalia segmenta, paulo latiora habet, quae, cum primum 

 flores dehiscunt, plane aut fere corollae adaequant. At Tongue, Suther- 

 land, and Heay, Caithness, a form of Amarella occurs from 15 — 25 cm. 

 in height with the leaves broad (10 mm.) by 25 mm. long, of a paler 

 green than the type ; the corolla white, tinged with lilac-purple ; and 

 the calyx, with sub-equal broadish segments, is, in the early flowering 

 stage, as long or nearly as long as the corolla, the tube of which 

 elongates after fertilization, but even in the later flowering stage the 

 calyx is relatively much longer than in the midland plant. To this is 

 to be referred the No. 2440 gathering of the Rev. E. S. Marshall from 

 Tongue, Sutherland, and I have seen it also near Betty hill, and at 

 Reay in Caithness. G. C. Druce, 



