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Jlorus in its longer stalked and consequently less aggregated anthodes, 
with larger and more globose periclines, broader and more spreading 
phyllaries. The leaves are said by Mr. Balkwill to be largely marked 
with white like those of Silybum Marianum. 
Aster, sp. ? — “I have sent a few specimens of an Aster which is apparently 
not unlikely to become established on the banks of the Itchen and 
smaller streams below Winchester. The specimens were gathered in 
September last from a good-sized patch on the side of the Canal, about 
a mile below the city. I am not sufficiently acquainted with the species 
of Aster which have been lately described and distributed to decide 
whether this plant belongs to either of them. I have forwarded the 
specimens, however, thinking they may possibly prove acceptable to 
some who are interested in introduced species.” — F. I. Waiiner. I 
believe this to be one of the forms of A. carneus, Nees. 
Pkyteuma spicatum, L. Seggeiden, Perth. “ Having observed (some 
eight or ten years ago), in the spring, the leaves of a plant of which I 
was not quite certain coming up among the grass under the shade of 
some old trees, I had wire netting placed around it for protection, 
when it proved to be P. spicatum , from which the present specimens are 
taken. It is a solitary plant, and has slowly increased since its first dis- 
covery. The first year it threw up only two spikes ; this year, there 
were several, but only a few have been taken off for fear of injuring the 
plant. There is no record of it having been cultivated in the garden 
here, from whence it might have escaped.” — H. M. Drummond Hay. 
Pyrola rotundifolia, L. Near Multy Carnham, Westmeath. — W .T. 
Thiselton Dyee. Professor Thiselton Dyer’s specimens seem to me 
identical with the var. arenaria from Southport. 
Pyrola minor , L. — “ Without flowers, in a coppice of oak and birch 
scrub, a short half mile across the bog, eastward from Ascot Station, 
Berks. A new locality probably, if not also a species new to the flora 
of the county as hitherto recorded.*” — H. C. Watson. 
Erythrcea latifolia, Sm. (vera). — “ I only found two specimens, both 
very dwarf in habit, on the 19th of July, 1871. They were growing in 
a grassy spot among the sand-hills near Freshfield Railway Station, 
Formby, Lancashire.” — Robekt Beown. The specimen sent by Mr. 
Brown is certainly the true E. latifolia. It is satisfactory to know that 
* Given, on Mr. AVatson’s authority, in Britten’s “ Contributions to a Flora 
of Berkshire.” b 
