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sometimes more abruptly narrowed at the base than in V. 
Thapsus, but there is a continuation of the lamina down 
the petiole. The colour of the flowers is of a lighter yellow 
than in V. nigrum and the upper hairs on the filaments are 
of a washed-out purple. Two plants of this hybrid were 
quite sterile. — J. E. Little. Here again V. Thapsus is the 
weaker parent in the hybrid. The radical leaf is evident. 
The branch in my sheet is more hairy even than that of the 
tomentose variety of V. nigrum, and so are the sepals. The 
size of the flowers is intermediate. V. nigrum is seen in the 
angular stem, the scattered clusters of flowers, the slender 
branch, the small flower buds, the much less felted sepals, 
the purple hairs of the filaments, and the non-decurrent 
anthers. I should have liked a little bit of the main stem and 
its leaf attached. What puzzles me is the length of the two 
branches I have received. I have seen V. Thapsus as a 
simple rod, 8ft. high, and V. nigrum has only short branches 
at the base. — J. Fraser. 
Linaria Cymbalaria Mill, sub-var. pallidior Rouy. [2666], 
Along 100 yards of wall, Brislington, N. Somerset, Sept. 25, 
1931. Flowers smaller, averaging 8mm. (some only 6mm.) 
and more ragged than in type ; white, with occasional pale 
green tendency. Seeds minute, tubercled, white when falling 
out of capsules, and later grey-brown. — H. S. Thompson. 
Yes. — E. Drabble. A dozen very large leaves of L. Cymbalaria 
gathered in a populous part of Clifton on Nov. 21, vary in 
size from 42mm. x 25mm. to 95mm. x 40mm. ; nine of them 
measure over 50mm. across, and the stems of two are both 
110mm. long. — H. S. T. The flowers are small, those of type 
being 8-10mm. long. The stems can be 2ft. Sin. long, even in 
N. Aberdeen. The pale colour of the flowers agrees with the 
name ; presumably the plant reproduces itself as in the albino. 
There is a globular or tufted plant in cultivation, so the 
species is polymorphic. — J. Fraser. 
Linaria purpurea L. With packets of seed. Up to 3ft. 
tall, much branched, and in profuse quantity at top of very 
high garden wall, Clifton, W. Glos, July 14, 1931.. Seeds, 
Oct. 15. This alien, naturalized on rocks and old walls, is 
frequent about Clifton and Bristol. “ A garden escape which 
