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plant with large blossoms is escaping from gardens into the 
“ wild ” state ; hence such specimens are sent from Sidcot, 
N. Somerset, April 15, a few from a roadside bank at Exmouth, 
S. Devon, June 24, 1933, and some younger and earlier 
specimens from Street, Somerset (originally planted). — H. S. 
Thompson. The record in Rep. B.E.C. 1932, p. 28, marked 
with a Maltese Cross as “ a certified addition ” to the British 
Plant List was based on a cultivated garden specimen sent for 
identification, so the present Exmouth record will probably 
be the first of this species from a “ wild ” situation. Mr. A. H. 
Carter showed me V . filiformis in 1933 well established on a 
roadside bank near Ockham, Surrey, but it obviously 
originated from a garden. — J. E. Lousley. I have specimens 
gathered by the R. Ayr near Ayr in June, 1927 by Mr. R. 
Mackenzie of Glasgow ; this record thus antedating these 
others. — E. C. Wallace. It matters little which was actually 
the first record in the wild state, as doubtless all escaped from 
cultivation. The Sidcot, Somerset, station (field side of a 
garden bank and hedge), where this rather late season a few 
blooms were seen as early as March 29, has been known to me 
since about 1928. — H. S. T. 
Veronica polita Fries. Vegetable garden, Chew Magna, 
N. Somerset, Sept. 15, 18, 1933. — H. S. Thompson. I agree. 
— J. Eraser. Yes. — I. A. Williams. Yes, and var. Thellun- 
giana Lehm. marked by the leaves with obtuse teeth and 
intervening deep obtuse sinuses. — C. E. Britton. 
Veronica [ agrestis L. ?] forma (No. 2661 A). Vegetable 
garden, Chew Magna, N. Somerset, Sept. 15, 1933. The top 
portion resembles V . arvensis. cf. last year’s No. 2661 which 
included one sheet of this misnamed plant. — H. S. Thompson. 
I think this would be typical, if the fruit had been more 
mature, mine being pressed flat. I cannot find agrestis 
outside gardens or allotments in Surrey. — J. Fraser. Whatever 
the plant [2661] distributed in 1932 may have been, it is clear 
to me that the plant now distributed cannot bear the name 
of Veronica agrestis L. For one thing the subsessile flowers 
arranged in a spicate manner place it outside the limits of that 
species, and evidence of hybridity is lacking. It is a lax form 
of V . arvensis L. marked by decumbent habit, with adventi- 
tious roots arising from lower part of stem, by the more 
distinctly petioled ellipt’cal-ovate stem-leaves, by the 
