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think it is a rather large flaccid plant of polita. But the 
capsules appear glabrous, and I have no gathering of either 
polita, persica or agrestis in which the capsules are not more 
or less hairjr. Were the flowers the small deep blue of polita ? 
— Iolo A. Williams. Some were small, but few were deep 
blue.— H. S. T. 
Veronica praecox All. [Ref. E. 11]. Near Barton Mills, 
West Suffolk, Apr. 16, 1933. New to Britain. See Journ. 
Bot., 1933, p. 159. — J. E. Lousley. Mr. Lousley is to be 
heartily congratulated upon this important discovery. — Ed. 
Veronica aquatica Bernh. Blagdon Reservoir, N. Somerset, 
Sept. 6, Oct. 2 and 13, 1933. Minute pale pink or mauve 
flowers, top petal veined darkest, and no streaks on lowest 
petal. Leaves strap-shaped to lanceolate, variable. — H. S. 
Thompson. Correct. As the inflorescence is glandular, it is 
the var. glandulifera Celak. The corresponding variation in 
the allied plant V. Anagallis L. is var. anagalliformis (Bor.). 
— C. E. Britton. A much more highly developed state than 
the plant from Chew Magna Reservoir. Benquerel quoted 
by Dr. Druce as the authority for F. aquatica had no descrip- 
tion, being only a “ nomen.”— J. Fraser. Both (from Blagdon 
and Chew Magna) correctly named. The prostrate plants are 
much like the form which grows at the reservoirs at Tring. — 
I. 0. Williams. 
Veronica aquatica Bernh. Chew Magna Reservoir, N. 
Somerset, Sept, and Oct. 4, 1933. And two sheets from 
Barrow Gurney Reservoir, Oct. 6. Flowers extremely pale 
mauve, and little streaked with red. Some of the plants 
glandular. The Barrow Gurney specimens have glandular 
flower and fruiting stems, and slightly glandular capsules. — 
H. S. Thompson. Correct, (Chew Magna) and also var. 
glandulifera Celak. — C. E. Britton. Evidently correct, for 
the var. anagalliformis (Bor.) is glabrous, and this one is 
glandular. — -J. Fraser. 
Euphrasia frigida Pugsley var. laxa Pugsley. Eight sheets 
from various localities in Perthshire and Argyllshire, July, 
1933. All the specimens have been seen by Mr. Pugsley. — 
E. C. Wallace. 
Euphrasia micrantha Reichb. [Ref. 1566]. Roadside 
moorland, West of Crianlarich, Mid-Perth, v.c. 88, July 22, 
1933. — E. C. Wallace. I agree. — J. Fraser. Mr. Wallace was 
not likely to have mistaken these. — H. W. Pugsley. 
