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E. adenocaulon .’ E. adenocaulon in south-west Surrey is 
abundant, growing in apparently wild situations such as 
copses and stream-sides far from dwellings and also commonly 
in such localities as railway sidings, kitchen gardens and timber 
yards. It is as common as any other Epilobium about Witley, 
Godaiming and Eashing. I distributed specimens to the 
W.B.E. Club in 1932 as “ Epilobium hybrid (stigma nearly 
clavate) ; Field edge, Birtley, Witley, Surrey, June 23, 1932,” 
when however I misled the referees by suggesting a hybrid 
and by describing the stigma as ‘ nearly clavate ’ instead of 
‘ shortly clavate.’ The plants collected June 23, 1932, are 
typical small plants of the species in Surrey ; large plants 
reach to six feet high, but the plants distributed this year 
[Ref. Ep. 103] are not typical of the ordinary plant, but are 
from a muddy situation gathered to show the striking rosettes. 
In the field E. adenocaulon Hausskn. may be readily 
recognised by its upright growth, much branched above, the 
stem being glabrous towards the base except for a few hairs 
on the more or less well marked decurrent lines ; by the 
upper half or more of the plant being densely covered with 
crisped and patent glandular hairs, the glands being very 
noticeable in the sunshine ; by the stigma being clavate but 
much smaller than in E. obscurum etc. ; by the leaves being 
shortly stalked, with their base not unlike that of E. montanum, 
but much longer and attenuated at the apex ; by the notice- 
ably small flowers (smaller than in any other Epilobium in 
this country), up to 6-5 mm. long in favourable situations, 
but generally much less ; and by the dense sessile or sub- 
sessile rosettes, the first leaves of which are obtuse and 
spathulate, the more developed ones acute. The pellucid 
appendage on the seed is also an excellent character. 
Apart from south-west Surrey I have seen specimens from 
Kingston, Surrey ; Westcott, Surrey (Herb. E. C. Wallace) ; 
and in Herb. Kew there are seven unnamed sheets from 
Ryarsh Wood, Kent, collected by A. R, Horwood in June, 
1929. These last are the earliest specimens I have seen from 
Great Britain. — G. M. Ash. 
A new species to the British flora, first described in 1879 
from N. America.— J. Fraser. I do not know E. adenocaulon ' 
Haussk. but the specimen received seems to be E. obscurum, 
crossed with E. tetragonum or possibly with E Lamvi — 
H. W. Pugsley. J ' 
