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point generally twisted, the upper surface grey-green, with a thin 
coating of fine silky hairs, the lower with only the main veinlets raised, 
clothed with a thicker coating of silvery silky down. 
S. repens, L. Stems grey and silky; leaves f inch long, under f inch 
broad, elongate-oblong, subcoriaceous in texture, not at all rugose, tho 
upper surface dark green when fresh, turning greyish when dried, with 
a very thin coating of silky down, the lower surface with only the main 
veins raised, all covered with a dense coating of silky silvery down. 
This intermediate corresponds, so far as the specimens go, with the 
typical S. ambigua of the herbaria of Hooker and Borrer, with the plant 
figured as such in E. B. S., t. 2733, accepted as Ehrhart’s plant by 
Dr. Anderssen, and issued in Herb. Norm, of Fries as the S. aurito- 
repens of Wimraer. In the character of the female catkin, S. aurita, 
S. repens , and this intermediate scarcely differ from one another. 
In all three it is generally not much above £ inch long by £ inch 
broad; the pedicel is quite half as long as the scale, and the style nearly 
obsolete. S. aurita and S. repens are both species that range over the 
horizontal extent of Britain and ascend the hills into the Inferarctic 
zone, growing very often intermixed ; and S. ambigua , though a little 
known plant, has also an ascertained range from Sussex to the Orkneys. 
The /3 major of E. B. S. agrees with the S. versifolia of Seringe 
(‘ Saules de la Suisse,’ No. 66 !), and with "Wimmer’s S. cinereo-re- 
pens, as given by Fries. This differs from the S. ambigua already de- 
scribed by its larger obovate-oblong leaves, which are thinner in texture 
and hardly at all rugose, by its larger catkins and more prominent 
style. This was found by Mr. Borrer in Suffolk, and when brought 
into his garden grew into a bush 5 feet high ; but the Northumbrian 
plant does not exceed 2 feet. Drummond’s Forfar plant differs from 
this latter only by’having the leaves more densely silky on both sides; 
and the form referred to S. spalhulala of Willdenow differs only by its 
narrower leaves, which are three times as long as broad, narrowed 
gradually from the centre to both ends. 
Spiranthes ccstivalis, Rich. Mr. Hanbury contributes examples from 
Grande Mare, Guernsey, a new locality. 
Leucoium vernum , L. A few flowers of this are sent by Mr. Watson. 
They were collected near Bridport, Dorset, by Mr. J. C. Mansel, who 
discovered the plant there in March, 1866. (See ‘ Journal of Botany,’ 
vol. iv. p. 209, t. 49.) 
