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found it to be sweet. Fries thinks this the best mode of discriminat- 
ing the pinnatifid variety of his Sorbus scandica from Sorbus fen- 
nica, Fries, of which the fruit is acid. The Arran plant appears to be 
a subspecies different from that of the south-west of England, which 
has been sent by Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs and others. 
Epilobium angustifolium, Linn. var. hr achy car gum. “ Cocken 
Woods, Durham.” — H. E. Fox. Unfortunately there is no note to the 
specimen to say whether or not it has any claim to be considered 
native in this station. 
Ribes alpinum , L. “ The specimens which I send from Hereford- 
shire are from a bush growing in a locality where it presents all the 
appearance of being planted or naturalized. I send also specimens 
from Derbyshire. I have found it in three or four different localities 
in the Peak of Derbyshire, growing very freely, and evidently fully 
naturalized, if not native.” — Augustin Ley. 
Saxifraga umbrosa. “ The locality in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, 
is at least a quarter of a mile from any house. The plant here is very 
luxuriant, and seems as truly wild as in any part of England.” — 
Augustin Ley. 
Caucalis latifolia, Linn. “ Cornfields, near Kagusliavern, Glou- 
cestershire. Introduced.” — T. B. Flower. 
Picris hieracioides, Linn., var. arvalis. “ Sychtyn Limerocks, 
Shropshire.” — Miss E. Jones. The specimens sent by Miss Jones 
show that P. arvalis , Jord. passes gradually into normal P. hiera- 
cioides. All Miss Jones’s specimens are taller, more slender, and with 
less spreading branches than P. hieracioides , as it grows on the chalk, 
and a few of them have the subumbellate inflorescence which marks 
Jordan’s plant ; but in by far the greater number the branches which 
bear the anthodes do not mostly spring from one point. 
Uieracium pedunculatum, Wallroth. Railway bank, at Inverleith, 
Edinburgh. Mr. Sadler sends a few specimens of this plant under 
the name of PI. stolonijlorum. I have not access to Waldstein and 
Kitaibel’s work ; but it is certainly not the IP. stolonijlorum of Fries’ 
‘ Epicrisis.’ Of the latter I possess specimens collected at Frankfort- 
on-the-Oder, sent me by the late Herr Buek.* Fries quotes ‘ II. 
* The plant from the railway bank, at Grran ton, Edinburgh, collected by 
Mr. Sadler, in 1869, is certainly II. stolonijlorum of Waidst. and Kit. — 
H. Trimen. 
