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of this on the railway embankment by Montpellier Station 
in 1888, when I first reported it, but I believe none has been 
seen for many years. — H. S. T. 
A tropa Belladonna L. Black Cliff, Monmouthshire, J une 1 1 , 
1915. Leg. W. A. Shoolbred. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. 
Datura Stramonium Linn. Waste building land in Cheam 
village, Surrey, Sept. 14, 1932. It has appeared here and there 
on disturbed ground by new roads in the Cheam and Ewell 
district this year. — E. C. Wallace. 
Scropkularia vernalis L. Wollaton Park, Nottingham, 
June 27, 1932. One of the most difficult plants to press that 
I have ever attempted. The leaves are extremely thin and 
delicate, while the hard wiry stems prevent them from lying 
flat on the drying paper, so that it is almost impossible to 
spread them out. — J. W. Carr. 
Veronica polita Fries. [2660]. Vegetable garden, near 
Chew Magna, N. Somerset, Sept. 24, Oct. 25, 1932. The few 
remaining flowers were very small and nearly white.- — H. S. 
Thompson. Yes, V. polita Fries. On my sheet there was 
also one piece of large, but typical, V . agrestis L. Should such 
accidental admixture with polita be present on other sheets, 
the oblong obtuse (as opposed to ovate acute in polita) fruiting 
sepals will readily enable the separation to be made. — E. 
Drabble. 
Veronica ( polita Fries ?). [2661]. Vegetable garden, near 
Chew Magna, N. Somerset, Sept. 24, Oct. 25, 1932. A 
vegetative form, with elliptic leaves, often long-stalked, but 
no flowers or fruit on either date. And one sheet has upper 
leaves narrowly triangular in shape. — H. S. Thompson. 
These large sterile specimens are very remarkable, but I 
think there can be no doubt that they are agrestis, which 
occurred in the same garden. (See 2660 above). I have seen 
sterile vigorous plants somewhat resembling these from 
elsewhere, and am very reluctant to suggest hybridity. The 
narrow uppermost leaves of one specimen, which give it a 
slight resemblance to arvensis, are unlike anything I have 
previously seen in agrestis. — E. Drabble. 
Veronica agrestis L. [var. micrantha Drabble], 994. 
Allotments, White Hill, Hitchin, Herts., Nov. 16, 1932. — 
J. E. Little. I don’t think these very stout plants can be 
