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the fact of the occurrence of this on limestone near Plymouth. The 
very rough rocky ground where it grows is being gradually brought 
into cultivation, which makes me the more desirous to record the 
occurrence of this plant there.” — T. It. Akcher Briggs, 1872. 
Limnanthemum nijmphaoides, Link. “Lagan Canal at Stranmillis, 
about a mile from Belfast. It is considered in this locality an intro- 
duced species of modern date ; nevertheless it is now well established. 
I have known it in the above station for ten years ; occasionally they 
clear out the canal, and the plant seems lost, but in a year or two it 
reappears in as strong force as ever.” — S. A. Stewakt, 1872. 
Solatium Dulcamara, L., var. “Hartlepool Ballast Hills. Prof. 
Babington thinks this is ‘ a var. of Dulcamara , which may be the 
S. littorale of Baab (a bad name, as the form is found inland as well 
as on the seaside). I have it from a place far from the sea, near 
Monckton Parley, in Wiltshire.’ In another letter Prof. Babington 
says, ‘Yours seems to me to be only a rather more fleshy form 
(perhaps caused by the salt .air) of the usual inland plant in its 
more hairy form, which I noticed so long ago as 1839 in my “Plora 
of Bath.” But the plant then found inland was not fleshy in the 
least.’ I believe this ballast variety to be intermediate between 
typical Dulcamara and Solarium marinum , Syme. It is a low bush, 
with the outside branches straggling, and is more fleshy than S. 
Dulcamara. The leaves are dull green, very soft and downy. On 
some of the branches every leaf is cordate ; on others all are hastate.” 
— R. Mokton Middleton, Jr. “ More or less tomentose forms of S. 
Dulcamara are frequent, and the glabrous forms pass insensibly into 
the densely tomentose. The most marked example of the latter is one 
sent by the Rev. H. E. Pox from Oxford, which grew on an old wall 
of Stonesfield slate.” — J. T. Boswell. 
Verbascum phlomoides, L. “ King’s Sterndale, Derbyshire, 1872. 
Cult, hort., Sellack, Herefordshire, June 9, 1873.” — Augustin Ley. 
Mr. Ley’s wild specimens sent to the club were scarcely sufficient to 
enable me to decide the species of this Mullein. I raised it from seed 
in the garden here, and the plants resulting therefrom and Mr. Ley’s 
cultivated specimens leave no room for doubt of this being V. 
phlomoides. 
Linaria supina, Desf. “ Well established on railway slope formed 
of ballast and refuse from coal pits.” Hartlepool, June 23, 1872. — 
John E. Robson. 
Linaria repens. “ The following passage concerning this plant 
occurs in Ray’s ‘ Synopsis,’ date 1696, ‘ Pound by that learned and 
eminent physician, Dr. Eales, in Herts.’ This was probably near 
