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locality by means of foreign ballast, and not by such human agency as 
I suggested last year.” — J. Harbord Lewis, 1872. 
Barlarea stricta, Andrz. “ Sides of fields and ditches near 
Balmore, Stirlingshire, June, 1873. Apparently indigenous.” — R. 
McKay. 
Nasturtium amphibium. “Alloa Park, Clackmannanshire. The 
accompanying specimen I gathered in an old quarry at Alloa Park. 
It grows there in great abundance all round the edge, but in no other 
spot in the vicinity, as far as I know. It is to all appearance native ; 
indeed, I have tried hard to imagine how it could be introduced, but 
can think of no way unless it has been purposely sown there by some 
collector of plants ; but that is very unlikely, as no one resident in the 
district cares enough about botany to take such trouble. The quarry 
is an old one, and may at one time have been connected with a lead 
from Grartmoor dam, which passes within a hundred yards of it, or 
rather did, for it is now covered in, and the quarry is being filled with 
rubbish, as the proprietors are improving the estate. I first gathered 
it in this habitat in 1867, and it was then in as great profusion as 
this year, but I am afraid it will only be allowed to exist for another 
year, as the rubbish is fast encroaching on it.” — Tom Drummond, 
1874. 
Cochlearia anglica, Huds. ‘ ‘ Of this plant there are two forms, 
apparently widely separated when seen apart, but so connected by 
intermediate links that it is difficult to say where the line ought to be 
drawn between them. The common form in the south-east of England 
is certainly the var. gemina of the Rev. F. Hort, which I think was 
founded originally on specimens collected near Chepstow ; but it is the 
common form along the estuary of the Thames and in the Isle of 
Wight. In this the root-leaves are attenuated at the base, the fruit 
very large, sometimes half an inch long, oval, more or less tending 
towards obovate, and inflated on the under side on each side of the 
narrow septum, which thus appears to be situated in a tolerably deep 
furrow. The other form from the north of England I propose to call 
var. Hortii , as it appears to be the plant which the Rev. E. Uort 
considered the type of the species. Which is really the more widely 
distributed form I am unable to say, but the few Continental specimens 
of C. anglica which I have seen certainly belong to var. Hortii , such 
as those published in ‘ Wirtgen’s Herb. Plant, select. FI. Rhename.’ 
What I consider the type of this variety is sent by Mr. Robert Brown, 
from the ‘ muddy shore of the river Mersey, Birkenhead, Cheshire, 
July, 1873, and has also been sent to the Club by Mr. J. Ilarbord 
Lewis. The radical leaves are oval, tending towards ovate rather 
