CUBA TOE’ 8 BEPOKT FOB 1864. 
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Sedgefield, but he considers that it has most likely been planted 
there. 
Lactuca virosa. Sent by Mr. T. It. A . Briggs, from a wall at 
Beer Ferris, Devonshire. New to the Peninsula province. 
Gnaphalium dioicum. Sent by Mr. T. B. A. Briggs, from 
Koborough down, an extensive common between Plymouth and 
Tavistock. New to Devonshire, but known before in Cornwall. 
Pyrola minor. Sent by Mr. J. E. Wlialley, from a fir 
wood on Chatmoss, Lancashire. It is not given for the Mersey 
province in Supplement Cybele. 
Verbaseutn nigro-pulverulentum Smith. Mr. Whittaker ^ 
sends from Smith’s original station, of Hellesdon, Norfolk, ex- 
amples of this plant, gathered by the Bev. Kirby Trimmer. The 
following description is made partly from these, and one or two 
points are taken from the English Flora. Stem about two feet high, 
panicled above with erecto-patunt branches, bluntly angular, thinly 
cottony throughout, the groundwork shining purplish-brown. 
Leaves soft in texture, blunt at the point, bluntly and irregularly 
crenate, the upper surface dull grey with a thin covering of down, 
the lower surface rather thickly covered with down and the veins 
conspicuous, the lower leaves large, stalked, not more than broadly 
ovate, the upper ones cordate sessile or even a little clasping. Spike 
interruptedly panicled below, long, loose, both pedicel and calyx 
densely cottony. Corolla bright yellow, measuring nearly half an 
inch across when fully expanded, stamens densely hairy with violet 
coloured hairs, shorter than the slightty hairy club-shaped stigma. 
Pedicel at least twice as long as the calyx. Much like V.floccosum, 
from which it differs by its less woolly stems, pedicels and calyces, 
less woolly and crenate leaves, longer pedicels, and by the colour of 
the hairs of the stamens, which are white in V. floccosum. There 
seems to be no question that our- plant is identical with one that is 
well-known and widely diffused upon the Continent, the V. 
Schottianum of Schrader, the V. nigro fioccomm of Koch, the V. 
mixtwn of Bamond in De Candolle’s Flore Francaise. The 
Norfolk specimens agree well with the plant of AVirtgens fasciculus 
No. 48. It is probable also that the V thapso-nigrum of Withering 
