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Lonicera JEyloslcum, L. “ Tlici'c are about a dozen bushes scattered at 
intervals in a hedge, at Birkby, about a mile from Huddersfield. This 
hedge joins the fence of a farmer’s garden, and one bush alone is found 
in the garden fence. It is certainly not native, and does not occur any 
where else in the district, but my opinion is that it was originally planted 
in the hedge, whence it has spread in both directions, and not that it is 
an escape from the garden. It has been here over seventy years.” 
C. P. IIobkirk. 
Fedia carinata, Stev. “ Grows in profusion for nearly a mile along the 
ditch bank of an old road leading from the village of Dundonald in County 
Down to Holywood. It is a plant not known in cultivation here. I 
have known this plant in the above station since 1867 ; it seems quite 
established, and with every appearance of being truly wild. I am not 
aware of it being found any where else in Ireland.” — S. Alex. Stewart. 
Ilieracium stoloniflorum, “ W. and K.,” fide Trimen ; IT. Filosella, 
virescens, Pries. “Pailway bank near the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. — J. 
Boswell Syme. I have sent out in each parcel specimens of this remark- 
able plant, which appears to me distinct both from II. stoloniflorum and 
II. Filosella. I sent specimens to the greatest living authority on Hieracia, 
the venerable Fries, and received from him a letter, of which the following 
is a copy: — “Ilieracium mihi transmission est H. Filosella virescens et ab 
H. stolonifloro omnino diversum. Lego, semper locis humidis, immo vere 
inundatis. In eadem pagina fragmenti dissertationis* Sorbus fennica 
est varietas S. Aucuparia.f Haec conjunctio sine dubio pendet a forma 
S. scandicce foliis profundis incisis sub-pinnatifidis, sed haec certissime 
diversa a genuina S. fennica, cujus fructus (praecocii modes coccinei, acidi ) 
plane differunt a S. scandica. In exemplaribus raeis e manu Walrothii 
inscriptuin ab auctore II. peduncular eF 
The Edinburgh plant is certainly an intermediate form between 
H. Filosella and II. stoloniflorum ; and were I compelled to place 
it under one or the other I should have no hesitation in refer ri no; it to 
II. pilosella, with which it agrees in the pubescence, the shape of the 
fruiting receptacle, and the size of the flowers. II. stoloniflorum has 
far fewer short gland-tipped hairs and more numerous long bristly 
spreading hairs on the scape, and especially on the pliyllaries, than the 
* The Exchange Club Report for 1870. 
t Evidently a clerical error for “ scandica see Botanical Exchange Club 
Report for 1870, p. 11, ‘which page of the report I sent to Dr. Fries. 
