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3, 4, to illustrate the experiment recorded in the ‘ Journal of Botany ’ 
for October, 1868, as stated on their labels. Also, some wild speci- 
mens, to show what are intended by the names ‘ candicans ’ and 
‘ virens ’ in the ‘ London Catalogue of British Plants,’ 6th edition, 
with forms more or less intermediate between these and ‘ virided ” — 
H. C. Watson. Most of the cultivated specimens sent by Mr. Wat- 
son, raised from the seeds of C. candicans, are intermediate forms, but 
some of them are true C. paganum ; and some of the specimens of 
C. candicans, which have been cut down and have subsequently thrown 
out fresh branches, are true C. viride, — so that the supposition that 
these are anything more than varieties is untenable. 
Polygonum aviculare vars. Mr. T. B. Archer Briggs sends from 
Plymouth what I believe to be var. microspermum ; Mr. F. Stratton, 
var. littorale, from the Isle of Wight. Of the latter, I have also com- 
municated a few specimens from Haddingtonshire. With this excep- 
tion, var. vulgatim is the only form I have seen since I came to Scot- 
land. 
Euphorbia Esula, Linn., var. genuina. Railway bank, Leek Wooton, 
Warwick ; Mr. H. Bromwich. 
Euphorbia Esula, var. Pseudo-cyparissias. Walls of Hulme Abbey, 
near Alnwick ; Mr. William Richardson. 
Leucojum astivum, Linn. Littlemoor, Oxford ; Rev. Augustin 
Ley. Oxfordshire, as a published locality for this plant, rested pre- 
viously on old authority ; but several stations near Oxford are known 
by local botanists. 
Asparagus officinalis, Linn. Norton Spit, Isle of Wight ; Mr. F. 
Stratton. This is not the same as the Cornwall plant, but evidently 
the common Asparagus of gardens, so that, in the Isle of Wight, it 
can only be considered an escape from cultivation. 
Polygonatum officinale, All. Kyloe Crays, Northumberland ; Mr. 
William Richardson ; and Dursley, Gloucester, Mr. J. Marten. The 
specimens sent from both these stations belong to the typical form of 
the plant, having the peduncles 1 -flowered or a few of them 2- 
flowered, and in the latter case forked from the very base. 
Colchicum autumnale, Linn., var. album. Sutton Court, Pensford, 
near Bristol ; Mr. J. F. Duthie. Mr. Duthie informs me that the 
white-Howcred variety occurs not unfrequently together with the com- 
mon form. 
