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and C. anglica very rare, if present at all ; and out of thousands of 
specimens of C. officinalis I have never seen one showing the least ap- 
proach towards C. anglica. All we can say at present is — first, that in 
a district where C. anglica occurs unaccompanied by C. officinalis, the 
former shows no tendency to approach the latter ; secondly, that in a 
district where C. officinalis occurs unaccompanied by C. anglica , C. 
officinalis does not approach the latter ; thirdly, in a district where both 
occur, intermediate forms appear connecting the one with the other. 
— J. T. Boswell. 
Draba verna, Linn., b. brachgcarpa. “ Near Kingswood Station, 
Warwickshire. Abundant on a thatched roof.” — J. Bagnall. New 
to the county. 
Alyssum calycinum, Linn. “ Found for the first time growing in 
a sandy grass pasture near Sutton Common, Kidderminster, Worces- 
tershire, June, 1875.” — J. Fraser, M.D. 
Thlaspi perfoliatum, Linn. “ This plant is still to be found in 
some plenty in several places a few miles north of Bourton-on-the- 
Water, Gloucestershire. I must have seen five or six hundred speci- 
mens. May, 1875.” — J. Fraser, M.D. Also from “roadside near 
Foss Bridge, Gloucestershire, April, 1875.” — J. F. Duthie. (See 
Journ. Bot., vol. iv., n.s., p. 178.) 
lepidium latifolium, Linn. “ Coatham, near Bedcar, N. York- 
shire, September, 1874. The specimens are not good, but they are 
the last which will be gathered at Coatham or Bedcar, as the locality 
for it is now covered with cottages.” — T. J. Foggitt. 
Viola lacteal “Ileathy wayside north of Fleet Pond, Hants, 
June 4, 1875.” — H. C. Watson and J. L. Warren. In a letter to 
Mr. Warren, Mr. Watson says: “ I am at fault how to label this. It 
ill agrees with any of the three figured in ‘ English Botany ’ — perhaps 
least like the scrap of lactea with its very small spur. It rather 
better comes between the figures given for jlavicornis and stagnina. I 
wish now that we had looked for more of it in flower.” In another 
letter to Dr. Boswell, dated November 3, 1875, Mr. Watson thus 
writes : “ Please to look at these Violets, and tell me what you make 
of them. Mr. Warren and I were returning to Fleet Station from the 
circuit of the pond, he looking along one side of the road, I intent on 
the other side. He picked the Viola, and said ‘ What is this ? ’ I 
saw at a glance that it was the same with specimens sent me two or 
three years ago by Mr. Briggs, and which have remained undecided 
upon, but are mentioned in ‘Topographical Botany’ (part ii., 
pp. 598-9). By longer delay we ran the risk of missing the only 
train at Fleet Station, so each took a very few flowering specimens, 
got hastily among the dense furze, &c. 1 fully intended to return for 
