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tips of the two upper petals, but even on the same plant 
cream-coloured flowers, and flowers with purple tips may be 
observed. When faded, the colour runs, and the whole petal 
becomes suffused with lilac. Associated with much V. 
agrestis and some V. arvatica. — J. E. Little. There are two 
different plants here, I think ; (1) Those with pale yellow 
flowers or with the upper petals slightly suffused with purple, 
are contempta ; (2) those in which the upper petals are 
definitely blotched at the tips with bright purple ; these I 
think are hybrids between contempta and the garden pansy. I 
have indicated my determination on every label. — E. Drabble. 
Viola contempta Jord. var. patula Drabble. [923]. Hitchin, 
Herts., Sept, and Oct., 1930. — J. E. Little. Yes ; see Journ. 
Bot. 1929, p. 74. This was named as a variety because Jordan’s 
description of contempta (Pugillus, p. 24) does not cover 
spreading and prostrate plants. This variety shows, when 
typical, many branches widely spreading from the base and 
more or less prostrate. — E. Drabble. 
Viola lutea Huds. f. amoena (Henslow) Drabble. [883]. 
Meadow, Dochart Valley, Killin, Perthshire, July 16, 1930. — 
Leg. K. D. Little. — Comm. J. E. Little. Yes ; the finest 
gathering of amoena Henslow that I have ever seen. Some 
of the very large -flowered specimens approach f. sudetica 
(Willd.). — E. Drabble. Yes, very plentiful in pastures in the 
valley of the Dochart above Killin. — J. Fraser. 
Polygala dubia Bellynck ? Chalk hill above Bratton, N. 
Wilts., June 21, 1930. — H. S. Thompson. One or two pieces 
show a false rosette of obovate leaves at the base of the 
branches. The lateral veins of the fruiting sepals do not 
anastomose freely on their outer side, as in the vulgaris group, 
and the lobes of the aril are decidedly unequal. These 
characters point to P. calcarea, F. Schultz. — J. E. Little. I 
have seen the specimens received by Mr. Little ; they are 
P. calcarea F. Schultz. — E. Drabble. Of two pieces sent by 
me to Dr. Drabble he says “ one I call calcarea unhesitatingly : 
the other I think is different, and I call it oxyptera auct. 
angl. (? dubia Bellynck ”). Mr. Little also points out that the 
forms of the wings in these two species are variously described 
as acute or obtuse, and that there are similar discrepancies 
in the relative width and length of the wings and capsules. 
There was evidently a mixture, but three of the specimens 
retained are obviously not calcarea.— H. S, Thompson. 
