curator’s report for 1865 . 
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I he midrib prominent beneath, 
the under surface naked and 
bright green, the under surface 
paler and pilose principally on 
the midrib. 
Panicle compact, the lower 
branches erecto-patent and not 
more than from one to two inches 
long, and the internodes still 
shorter, corolla-segments a pale 
but decided yellow, ovate bluntish 
half a line long by a quarter 
broad, the peduncles usually 
under a line in length, ultimately 
divaricate or deflexed, the fruit 
smooth naked. 
Leaves and flowers turning 
very slightly black in drying. 
First fruit just full size July 
1st, so that it will probably 
flower about the second week or 
middle of June, at least a fort- 
night earlier than the other. 
flat or the edges slightly revolute, 
the texture thinner than in the 
other and the midrib less promi- 
nent, the upper surface dull-green 
and naked, the lower grey-green, 
pilose principally on the mid-rib, 
the margin furnished with a row 
of short forward-pointing prickles 
Panicle composed of numerous 
distant long-stalked numerously 
flowered clusters, corolla segmen ts 
cream-coloured slightly tinged 
with purple, quite as long as in 
the other, but rather narrower 
and sharper, the peduncles often 
exceeding a liue in length, ulti- 
mately erecto-patent or spreading 
at right angles not deflexed, the 
fruit smooth naked. 
Scarcely turn at all black in 
drying. 
First flowers opening June 29. 
Styles united half the way down, 
sometimes longer than the sta- 
mens, sometimes shorter. 
The flowers of both of these and of G. verum measure a line across 
when fully expanded, of G. datum, a line and a half, of G. erectum 
two lines. For France Grenier and Godron describe four forms 
intermediate between verum on the one hand and datum and erectum 
on the other, which they call eminens, approximatum , decolorans , 
and ambiguum ; and for Germany Dr. F. Schultz describes two, 
which he calls Wirtgeni and Panlianum. Of these decolorans, 
eminens and Wirtgeni are nearest to verum , the other three to 
Mollugo. It would seem that we have here another instance of what 
has been observed to occur already with Stachys palustris and 
sylvatica," Primula veris and vulgaris, Geum rivale and urbanum, and 
perhaps also Lychnis diurna and vespertina, where pairs of closely 
allied plants produce natural hybrids in which sometimes the 
characters of one and sometimes of the other parent predominate. 
t Antirrhinum Orontium. Sent by the Pev. F. Addison from 
the neighbourhood of Braystones in West Cumberland, where it has 
been noted recently in large quantity by Mrs. Pratten, daughter of 
the botanist Knapp. Anglesea is the most Northern point in the 
West side of the island from which it is registered in the Cybele. 
