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broad-leaved species which I believe to be A. Novi-Belgii, L., but 
which Mr. H. C. Watson inclines to call an abnormal growth ot A. 
brumalis, Willd., a plant which according to Torrey and Gray is not 
certainly known to exist in North America, and is perhaps derived from 
A. Novi-Belgii. 
Erythrcea pulchella, Pries. “ This condensed form grows in the 
salt marshy ground near King’s Quay, Isle of Wight, the plants this 
year occupying a considerable space of ground, and standing up rather 
thickly together, with no other form of Brytlircea intermixed with them, 
though both E. Centaurium and the ordinary form of E. pulchella grow 
in similar ground adjoining.” — Fred. Stratton. Mr. Stratton’s speci- 
mens of E. pulchella are much more condensed than in the normal 
form, but very much less so than those collected by Mr. H. C. Watson 
in Guernsey. 
Bum ex conspersus, Hartm. (?) In August and September I collected 
specimens of a Rumex identical with the plant found by the late Dr. 
Walker- Arnott, in Kinross-shire, which, when the ninth volume of 
‘ English Botany ’ was published, was thought, both by Mr. H. C. 
AT at son and myself, to be R. conspersus, Hartm. Whether the Scan- 
dinavian R. conspersus be a species or not I do not know, but I am 
convinced that Dr. Walker-Arnott was right in considering the Kin- 
ross-shire plant a hybrid between R. obtusifolius, L., and R. domesticus, 
Hartm. ; it is only found in company with these two species, and very 
few of the fruits of each panicle come to maturity, so that the fruit- 
panicle bears but few fruits with enlarged petals, the greater number 
remaining undeveloped. 
R. crispo -obtusifolius ? Under this name I have sent out speci- 
mens of a Rumex extremely similar to R. pratensis , Mert. and Koch, 
but differing in having but few of the fruits in each panicle coming to 
maturity ; in the enlarged petals being rather larger and less highly 
coloured ; and varying by the enlarged petals approximating more to 
those of R. obtusifolius on the one hand, and more to those of R. 
crispus on the other. It occurs near Balmuto, wherever these two 
species grow together ; and I suppose it to be a hybrid between them, 
and not identical with the English R. pratensis. The Scotch specimens 
from Aberdeen and Musselburgh which I referred to R. pratensis in 
the third edition of ‘English Botany,’ are identical with the Fife 
plant, which, if not a hybrid, may be a sub-barren state of R. oblmi- 
