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are more similar in outline to those of the lower leaves, (that is 

 in both they are sub-rotund), and not so oblong as in the type ; 

 and the style appears to be comparatively shorter ; but whether 

 these characters are constant, remains to be seen. In the mean- 

 time, I think the form is worth distinguishing as var. lilacina. 



KUMEX PROPINQUUS J. E. ARESCH., IN BRITAIN. 



By W. H. Beeby, A.L.S. 



IN 1888 I collected near Scalloway, Shetland, a dock which 

 much resembled R. conspersus Hartm., but which did not 

 seem to me exactly that plant, although I appear to have distri- 

 buted some specimens (No. 1027) under the latter name. This 

 plant has been recently identified as R. propinquus, and a re- 

 examination of my Shetland specimens of Rumex leads me to 

 think that it is probably frequent there ; while the record of R. 

 conspersus must for the present be limited to the two localities 

 mentioned (" Scot. Nat.," 1888, p. 215). As R. domcsticus and 

 R. crispus are both of them common in Shetland it is natural to- 

 expect the hybrid between them (R. propinquus) to be more com- 

 mon than R. conspersus, the hybrid between R. obtusifolius and 

 R. domesticus ; since R. obtusifolius is quite a local plant in the 

 islands. The plant will surely be found on the mainland of 

 Britain; it was pointed out by Dr. Trimen ("Journ. Bot.," 1872, 

 p. 333) as a likely British plant, and he remarks on its close re- 

 semblance to R. conspersus. 



AGARICUS STOREA PR. IS IT ENTITLED TO BE CONSIDERED 

 A BRITISH SPECIES? 



By Rev. James Keith, LL.D. 



THIS fungus has got itself established in our books as a 

 species which has been found both in England and 

 Scotland ; but though I have frequently met with the plant which 



