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unusually elongated inflorescence with the lower flowers 
widely spaced and their bracts lo bate -serrate. C. E. Britton. 
Surely this is only a luxuriant form of V. arvensis ? I. A. 
Williams. 
Veronica agrestis L. Vegetable garden, near Chew Magna, 
N. Somerset, Sept. 15, 18, and Oct. 4, 1933.— H. S. Thompson. 
Correct. The usual variety Garckiana P. Fourn., with capsules 
glabrescent on the faces and with elongated glandular hairs 
in the region of the keel. — C. E. Britton. Quite typical.— 
J. Fraser. Yes. — I. A. Williams. 
Veronica persica Poir. [var. Kochiana Godr.]. Pocombe 
quarry near Exeter, S. Devon, v.c. 3, June 4, 1933. I. M. 
Roper. I agree. The leaves are small, with 1-3 shallow 
serratures on each side, and the pedicels are long and filiform. 
— J. Fraser. Var. Kochiana is a plant with a filiform stem 
and small entire or shallowly-toothed leaves. In this plant 
the stem is quite stout and the leaf-serrations deep, so it does 
not meet the requirements of the var. in question. — C. E. 
Britton. The specimen sent me is rather too stout for good 
Kochiana, but I find this variety grades insensibly into the 
ordinary var. Aschersoniana, as I mentioned in the last 
Report. — H. S. T. 
Veronica persica Poir. ? Vegetable garden, Chew Magna, 
N. Somerset, Sept. 15, 1933. — H. S. Thompson. I agree. — 
J. Fraser. The plant received is not V. persica Poir. but 
V . polita Fr. The dehisced capsule is certainly slightly keeled 
(but not divergent, I think), and it would be of interest to 
know whether this character was observed in the living plant, 
as a keeled capsule is not characteristic of V . polita Fr. 
although present in V. agrestis L. which is also distinguished 
by faint but distinct reticulations on the capsule walls, absent 
in this case. Both V. polita Fr. and V. agrestis L. have 
inflated and rounded capsule-lobes, whereas in V. persica 
Poir. the lobes of the capsule are strongly compressed acute, 
and the surfaces covered by a net-work of raised ribs. — C. E. 
Britton. I fear this was a mixed lot. The keeled capsules of 
some (when dried) perplexed me. There were also four small 
September gatherings from elsewhere in N. Somerset, some 
of the plants being extremely small. — H. S. T. My sheet 
(a single large plant from Chew Magna) is rather perplexing. 
The shape of the sepals is wrong, also of the capsules. I 
