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Cross o' the Hand and Brailsford, 1890, as suberecta Zimm. = Tor- 

 mentilla x procumbens, 1894, W. R. Linton. Bradley. Derby, W. R. 

 Linton, as P. mixta. See also Fl. Derbyshire 131. These three 

 specimens are all named P. procumbens only by Dr Wolf, but the 

 Brailsford was a mixed gathering, see under P. erecta. Biddulph, 

 Stafford, 1887, W.H. Painter Silverdale, Lanes., 1911, Druce; Inskip, 

 W. Lanes., 1895 [Kef. No. 1498], E. S. Marshall as reptans x sylvestris; 

 Hawksworth, near Bradford, York, 1877, W. West; Newton Stewart, 

 Wigton, 1889, Druce; Derrynane, 1906, Killarney, Kerry, 1891, 

 Druce; Roundstone, Galway, 1906, Druce; Clogher, Tyrone, 1907, 

 C. L. Peck ; St Aubin's, Jersey, 1906, Druce. 



P. procumbens x reptans = P. mixta Nolte. A frequent 

 and widely distributed hybrid in Britain. Perranarworthal, Check- 

 water, 1912, F. H. Davey, "Forma valde robusta." Truro, 

 Cornwall, gathered by Mr Davey and the writer in 1911, and 

 Dr Wolf remarks " specimen simillimum est specimenibus authen- 

 ticis a CI. Nolte in Holsatia lectis." Green with Common, Corn- 

 wall, 1912, C. C. Vignrs; Ivybridge, S. Devon [Ref. No. 1326], 

 E. S. Marshall; Torrington and Westward Ho, N. Devon, 1907, 

 Druce. I have cultivated this hybrid, which has become a large, 

 handsome, but sterile plant in my garden. Ashcot Road, N. Somerset, 

 1912, J. W. White; Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, R. P. Murray as 

 "'^reptans x Tormentilla." See Pot. Exch. Club Report 1893 ; Cran- 

 brook, Kent, Witley [Ref. No. 839], E. S. Marshall ; Tilgate, Surrey, 

 1908, Druce; Early, 1893, Blackwater, 1892, Berks, Druce; Whaddon 

 Chase, Denham, Bucks, 1907, ad "P. reptantem recedens, " Druce ; 

 Monmouth, A. Ley, teste Bennett ; Sellack, Hereford, A. Ley ; Tiden- 

 ham, W. Gloster, 1911, H. J. Riddlesdell, "ad hanc formam pertinet 

 P. mixta Nolte ab ipsae ad Emfeld in Holsatia lecta"; Holyhead, 

 Anglesey, 1890, Druce, also super-procumbens x reptans ; Llanderfel, 

 Merioneth, Pamplin, and Tongland, Kirkcudbright, 1886, F. R. Coles 

 in Hb. Bennett. "This is super-procumbens x reptans." Glen- 

 gariff, Co. Cork, 1906, Druce ; Tipperary, G. Nicholson in Hb. Bennett. 



P. reptans L. Small forms of this species approaching micro- 

 phylla Tratt. are not uncommon. Such have been found at Odiham, 

 N. Hants, 1893, C. E. Palmer; Newlyn Halt and Trethellan Steps, 

 Cornwall, 1912, C. C. Vigurs ; The Quenvais, Jersey, 1906, Druce. 

 The latter is almost a glabrous plant. There is a considerable range 

 of pubescence, an extreme form being :— 



