CURATOR’S REPORT FOR 1865. 
As in previous years we propose to give here a brief notice 
of the more interesting plants that have come before us during the 
past year, restricting such notice, as will be seen, to plants of which 
specimens have passed through our hands, notable either on the score 
of critical interest or as having been found in tracts whence they 
are not registered in the Cybele Britannica and its Supplement. 
Tkalictrum flexuosum oar. Through the kindness of Mr. A\ m. 
Richardson in sending a bundle of roots and living specimens of the 
Thalictrum of the exposed basaltic crags of Kyloe near Belford, 
Northumberland, we are enabled to furnish the following description. 
Stem, a foot to eighteen inches in height, green or purplish, leafy to 
the base, zigzag, hollow in the centre, not compressible, subterete, 
hardly striated towards the base, but marked in the upper part 
especially below the sheaths, slightly glandular. Lower stipules 
with adpressed, upper with reflexed auricles. Leaves bipinnate, 
the leaflets pale green above, glaucous and covered beneath with 
shining sessile glands, the terminal segment about half an inch 
broad and deep, cuneate or rounded or even cordate at the base, 
three parted at the apex and sometimes the partings again toothed. 
Main petiole rounded and marked with three striations on the back, 
channelled above, both the- main and secondary petioles spreading 
from the axis at right angles. Panicle very diffuse, half the whole 
length of the stem or nearly so, the general outline broadly 
triangular, the lowest branch only furnished with a leafy bract about 
half its length, the branches patent or erecto-patent arcuate, only 9 
to 12 distant flowers upon the main branches. Anthers apiculate, 
a line long, pendent, the pedicel two lines long. Carpels two lines 
long without the style, narrowly ovate, rather gibbous, irregularly 
ten-nerved, some of the nerves faint and others deeper From the 
ordinary North of England riverside form of the plant this differs 
principally by its hollow stem, smaller glandular glaucous leaflets 
and few flowered scarcely leafy panicle. 
Viola permixta Jordan. Mr. Jordan identifies the Viola 
gathered by Mr. Briggs near Plymouth, and described in our Report 
of last year as intermediate between hirta and odorata with his own 
V. permixta (fasc 7, page 6. BoreauFl. du Centre, 3 edit., Vol. 2, 
p. 74.) He sends examples of this gathered in the neighbourhood 
of Lyons, and the comparison of our plant with these and an 
authenticated specimen sent by Professor Van Heurck from 
Antwerp, leaves little room to doubt their substantial identity, 
though there are one or two trifling points of discrepancy in the 
