»> BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB, 
published descriptions. Mr. Briggs took the trouble to send in 
Spring several living examples of the Devonshire plant, and we 
give him a more complete description of it, side by side with one of 
the ordinary V. odorata. 
V. permixta. Rootstock woody 
scaly, wide-creeping, sending out 
stolons which bear tufts of leaves 
and flowers, and occasionally take 
root. 
Petioles covered throughout 
with short stiff deflexed hairs, at 
the flowering time some of them 
4 or 5 inches long which is 
longer than the peduncles. 
Leaves hairy all over on both 
sides, measuring at the flowering 
time about lit inch long includ- 
ing the lobes by If broad, ex- 
panding in Autumn to 4 inches 
by 2£, so much cordate that there 
is only a narrow sinus left between 
the lobes which are a quarter of 
an inch deep. 
Stipules lanceolate, the cilia- 
tions few and very short. 
Peduncles weak, slender, two 
to four inches long when the 
plant is in flower, the lower part 
hairy, the upper with only a few 
scattered hairs, the bracts linear 
and slightly gland-ciliated, placed 
usually below the middle of the 
peduncle. 
Sepals oblong, blunt, faintly 
ciliated along the lower third of 
the edge, petals slaty-blue, the 
upper pair imbricated, § of an 
inch wide, the lateral pair rather 
narrower, the lowest one f- of an 
inch across, distinctly emarginate 
at the apex, narrowed more 
gradually than in the other and 
with fewer veins, the spur § of' 
an inch from its extremity to the 
V. odorata. Rootstock woody, 
scaly, wide-creeping, sending out 
long rooting stolons which bear 
tufts of leaves and flowers. 
Petioles 1 to 2 inches long at 
the flowering time, some rather 
densely hairy with deflexed hairs 
some nearly hairless or the hairs 
so short as to be quite incon- 
spicuous. 
Leaves rather less hairy on 
both sides than in the other, 
measuring at the flowering time 
from an inch to an inch and a 
half both ways including the 
lobes, much larger in Autumn, 
less pointed than on the other, 
and the lobes shorter (not less 
than an eighth of an inch long) 
and diverging more. 
Stipules similar in shape but 
the ciliations closer and more 
numerous. 
Peduncles only about two 
inches long, not so hairy as in the 
other, bracts not gland-ciliated, 
placed genially above the middle 
of the peduncle. 
Sepals oblong, blunt, some- 
times the edge, sometimes the 
appendage only, faintly ciliated, 
petals white or deep purplish- 
blue, the upper pair a quarter of 
an inch across, and hardly if at 
all imbricated, the lateral pair 
about as broad, the lowest one f 
of an inch across, distinctly 
emarginate at the apex, the spur 
keeled and shorter and thicker 
