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Fresh specimens of Stellaria aquatica from Blagdon, May 4, 
1934, were sent to Kew, and the Assistant Director kindly 
wrote : “ . . . We have done a few rough experiments on it to 
test whether the purple colour of the blotches is due to an 
anthocyanin pigment or not, and I think we can definitely 
say that it is. This makes the tannin and iron theory of the 
colouration highly improbable. Further one would imagine 
that all plants growing in that particular habitat would be 
similarly affected if it were due to a local condition. It seems 
to me that it is more probable that it is either a genetical 
form of the nature of a mutation or, conceivably, a bacterial 
disease which sometimes, in other plants, takes this particular 
form.” — John S. L. Gilmour. 
Elatine hexandra DC. Muddy pond on Whitmoor Common, 
Surrey, Sept. 3, 1933. — E. C. Wallace. 
Hypericum perforatum L. var. Newton Abbot, S. Devon, 
July 22, 1933. — R. J. Burdon. 
Tilia cordata Mill. Bedford Purlieus, near Wansford, 
Northants. FI. July 23, Fr. Oct. 8, 1933. Flowering and 
fruiting in abundance here this year. — J. W. Carr. Very 
small glaucous leaves with axillary tufts of red hairs ; quite 
correct. — J. Fraser. 
Tilia cordata Miller. Small leaved form from one large tree 
near Madgett Farm, above Wye Valley, W. Glos. A few 
specimens with larger leaves and no fruit from Wyndcliff 
Woods, Monmouth, July 21, 1933, with J. E. Lousley. — H. S. 
Thompson. 
Linum anglicum Mill. ( L . perenne Linn.). Roman Road, 
Gog Magog Hills, Cambs., July, 1933. — G. Goode. Strictly 
L. perenne auct. Brit, non Linn.- — Ed. 
Euonymus europseus L. White capsuled form, Croxbottom, 
N. Somerset (v.c. 6), Nov. 7, 1933, with Mrs. Sandwith. See 
Journ. Bot. 1912, 377. As De Candolle says, Prod. 2, p. 4 
(1825), /3 leucocarpus , fructibus pallidis, arillis seminibusque 
albis, which Rouy puts literally into French : “ Fruits pales ; 
graines et arilles blancs,” we can hardly place our plant there, 
for it has the normal deep orange aril. But is it possible DC. 
made a slip as to the aril being white ? We have seen no 
description of Druce’s var. leucocarpus, which hitherto has been 
regarded as a synonym of D C.’s. — H. S. Thompson. This will 
