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Chenopodium polgspermim, Linn. “Newton Don, Berwickshire, 
Sept., 1873. Both varieties plentiful in a recently ploughed old 
pasture field.” — A Brotherston. 
Chenopodium glaucum, Linn. “ Var. from Guernsey, Garden, 1866; 
seeds from the Isle of Guernsey, 1865.” — H. C. Watson. “This 
form is very different from C. glaucum , as it occurs not unfrequently in 
the vicinity of London, which has the leaves lanceolate or the upper 
ones strap-shaped, both with subrhombic or wedge-shaped bases, acute 
apices, and a few large, acute, but’ not very prominent teeth on each 
side, the leaves becoming smaller and smaller the further up they are 
placed on the stem. The inflorescence is a panicle, of which the lateral 
branches are axillary spikes, not much interrupted, and with minute 
linear or strap-shaped acute leaves at the base of the glomerules in 
their lower half, except at the very apex of the stem, where the 
glomerules which form the spikes are leafless. In the Guernsey 
plant, which was collected by Mr. Watson at St. Sampsons, the leaves 
are oval or ovate, or elliptical-oblong, obtuse, undulated, or with a 
few blunt and inconspicuous teeth on the margins. The leaves do 
not decrease upwards to any great extent, the spikes are so much 
separated that the inflorescence cannot be called a panicle, but con- 
sists of a number of axillary glomerules, [or short, leafless, interrupted 
spikes. The form appears to be constant, as Mr. Watson has sent me 
a specimen of it from his garden in 1874, believed to be descended 
from the Guernsey stock formerly sown there. I have seen the same 
form from ballast at Inverkeithing and St. Davids on the Firth of 
Forth.” — John T. Boswell, 1875. 
Rumex rupestris, Le Gall? “ Lewes Levels, Sussex, Aug. 1874. 
Without guaranteeing this for Rumex rupestris , Le Gall, it seems 
to me, as far as I can ascertain, to approach very near to the right 
thing, if not the right thing actually.” — J. L. Warren, 1874. “ This 
is what I suppose to be the plant so named by the French botanists. 
I suspect it to be ‘ trigranulate ’ R. nemorosus. I have sown seeds of 
this, but they have not yet germinated.” — John T. Boswell, 1875. 
Rumex , hybrid between pulcher and nemorosus ? “ Pasture, Tothill, 
Plymouth, S. Devon, July 31, 1873.” “ Also waste ground, Torpoint, 
East Cornwall, August, 1873.” — T. It. Archer Briggs. “ Both of these 
docks appear to me intermediate between R. pulcher and R. conglome- 
ratus, the one from Torpoint, East Cornwall, approaching most 
closely to pulcher in its divaricate branches, while that from Tothill, 
Plymouth, has the branches ascending or spreading, ascending as in 
R. conglomeratic. None of the specimens have root-leaves, and the 
leaves at the base of the branches on both are oblong, or oblong-strap- 
