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exactly matches the figure in the Flora Austriaca, and is not 
our plant. This is presumably the plant figured by Butcher 
l.c. pi. G as T. majus, although it does not appear glandular. 
— A. J. Wilmott. The specimens answer the descriptions 
with regard to the leaves, stipules, mode of branching of 
the inflorescence, and the numerous achenes ; but I fail 
to find the glands on the underside of the leaves and on 
the sepals. This character is liable to be absent in other 
species. — J. Fraser. 
As regards the glandulosity of the foliage in these Thalictra, 
it does not appear to have been noticed that the leaflets of the 
lowest leaf on the shoot (the first of the year) are always 
practically or quite glabrous, although the later leaves may 
be densely glandular. On the contrary, the uppermost leaf 
or two leaves, often very reduced, nearly always bear a 
considerable number of glands, even when the plant is other- 
wise eglandular. Such, however, is my experience, and care 
is therefore required in observing the glands. — A. J. W. 
Thalictrum — Shore of Lake Windermere, near Bowness, 
Westmorland, July 26, 1931. Plant about three feet high, 
growing on sandy margin of Lake. ? T. flexuosum of Baker’s 
Flora of the English Lake District. — J. W. Carr. This I take 
to be the plant named T. umbrosum by Butcher ; see Further 
Illustr. pi. 7. — A. J. Wilmott. 
Anemone nemorosa L., var. caerulea DC. Wood, Ponsanooth, 
W. Cornwall, v.c. 1, May 7, 1931. In the process of drying the 
beautiful sky-blue colour has disappeared, and therefore these 
specimens may be of little value. The variety is frequent 
growing in patches amongst the type. — Ida M. Roper. There 
is an interesting paper in Journ. Bot. lxii, 265 (1924) by Prof. 
E. J. Salisbury, giving reasons for regarding this plant as a 
good variety and not merely a colour-form. — H. W. Pugsley. 
Var. caerulea seems to be a good variety. Like Dr. Salisbury 
(J . Bot. 1924, p. 265) I have never seen any intermediates 
between var. caerulea and var. genuina Salisb., such as are so 
common between the pink- or purple-flowered form of exposed 
situations (var. purpurea DC.) and the white-flowered genuina. 
The restricted distribution of var. caerulea seems also to be 
in accordance with its status as a genetically distinct variety. 
- — E. Drabble, 
