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has fallen and exposes the abortive nutlets, and Sibthorp 
may have founded his S. patens on plants in this condition.” 
— Jas. W. White. Well prepared specimens showing the 
mature and glossy black nutlets. — J. Fraser. Yes. — E. 
Drabble. 
Symphytum orientate L. Cult. Derived from the garden 
of the late Cedric Bucknall, Clifton. May 5, 1930. A native 
of Eastern Europe, to be seen in most botanic gardens and 
worthy of wider cultivation as an ornamental plant. Its 
profusion of snow-white flowers in April and early May is 
quite attractive. It thrives and spreads on poor soils, and 
has become so far naturalized on railway banks and wood 
borders as to be numbered in the London Catalogue. — Jas. 
W. White. Yes ; native of the Byzant. — J. Fraser. Yes ; 
very nice and useful material. — E. Drabble. 
Symphytum tuberosum L. Hort. Hitchin. (Root from banks 
of R. Findhorn, Morayshire, 1928, K. D. Little), June 1929 
and 1930. — J. E. Little. The usual British form of this plant. 
— H. W. Pugsley. 
Cuscuta europaeaV. Near Guildford, Surrey, Aug. 7, 1930. 
— Ki. J. Burdon. It also occurs on Urtica dioica in Surrey. — 
J. Fraser. And on many other plants have I seen it. — E. C. 
Wallace. 
Verbascum Lychnitis L. var. album Mill. North Stoke, W. 
Sussex, Aug. 9, 1930. [B 51]. — J. E. Lousley and P. M. Hall. 
Comm. J. E. Lousley. 
Verbascum nigrum Linn. var. lanatum Sond. About the 
foot of White Downs, Surrey, July 27, 1930. — E. C. Wallace. 
Yes, I think this is V. nigrum var. lanatum Sond. (var. 
tomentosum Bab.), and not nigrum, x Thapsus, which is found 
occasionally where the two parent-plants grow together. — E. 
Drabble. Right. The other name for the variety is tomentosum 
Bab. — J. Fraser. This form, with leaves densely tomentose 
beneath and pubescent above, occurs fairly frequently with 
the type in North Kent and also in Surrey. It has received 
several names. In many English works it appears as var. 
tomentosum Bab., sometimes as var. lanatum Sond. It also 
appears to agree with var. Alopccurus Wirt, of Rouy (Vol. 
11, 16) which has “ feuilles a page inf. et sup. tomenteuses, 
les rad. faiblement cordees ou tronquees ; poils staminaux 
parfois blanchatres.” I should scarcely consider the form 
