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Edinburgh plant. The flowers are smaller, and even on the primary 
stem collected into small corymbs at the extremity of the branches of 
the scape. The leaves are thinner in texture and clothed with more 
distant and more bristly hairs with very little stellate down between 
them. The fruiting involucre I have not seen, but Koch says of it, 
“ planta viva facillime dignoscitur ab omnibus varietatibus II. Pilosellce ; 
involucrum, praecipue fructiferum, basi ventricosum, quasi annulo ven- 
tricoso cinctum, quae vero nota, quod dolendum, in planta sicca et 
compressa perit.” The only foreign specimens I possess which agree 
with the Edinburgh Hieracium are those in the Flora Ingrica of Dr. 
Memshausen, of St. Petersburg, which are under the name of H. Pilo- 
sella, pleiocep/ialum* I sowed a pot full of the apparently mature seeds 
of the Edinburgh plant, but none of them have germinated. I have 
little doubt that the railway bank has received its Hieracium from 
the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, as the same plant occurs in the 
garden under several names and the distance between the two is incon- 
siderable. It now, however, exists in great abundance, and out of 
thousands of specimens which I saw there last June not one could I 
find with the scape unforked. The place is not wet, far less inun- 
dated, as stated in Fries’ letter, so that the difference from ordinary 
Pilosella caunot be referred to situation. In the Transactions of the 
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, vol. xi., part 1, plates are given of the 
different appearance of this plant at different seasons, with notes by 
Professor Balfour. 
Carduus nutanti-crispus, Syme, E. B., edition 3, “ A series of 
hybrids between C. nutans and C. crispus, growing in a pasture with 
plants of the two species, near Elburton, Devon.” — T. R. Archer 
Briggs. I should refer all these specimens to C. nutans , but possibly 
when growing there may have been a difference which has disappeared 
in the dried plant. It is certainly not the Essex plant described in the 
third edition of English Botany as C. nutanti- crispus, the C. New- 
bouldi of the London Catalogue, 6th edition. Hybrids sometimes incline 
more to one parent than the other. The Essex plant is as nearly half 
way between the two supposed parents as may be. 
Carduus nutanti- tenuijlor us ? — “ By the sea under the Hoe at Ply- 
mouth.” — F. 0. Balkwill. A curious plant differing from C. tenui- 
* Mr. C. H. Watson informs me he has a cultivated specimen, named II. 
* stoloniferwn,’ from Dr. Grenier, identical with the Edinburgh Hieracium. 
