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thi,- is most interesting, bui. surely tlie giving o names to ! 
such “ passages’ can only lead to chaos. The writer’s own 
specimens of Peplis confirm this tendency for the calvx-ti eth to 
become longer in the West. From near Penzance (1888) he has 
longidmtata, together with what Mr. Druce would call dentata ; 
the same two forms from a stream on Quantock (West Somerset) ; 
“ dentata ” from two places in Warwickshire; and the type only 
from Skipwitb Common, E. Yorks. — H.S.T. 
Epildbium hirsuium L. (flore albido). Ref. No. 4362. Near 
Somerton, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, Aug. lb, 1916. — E. S. Marshall. 
Chcerophyllum aureum L. Banks of the Teith, Callander, W. 
Perth, v.c. 87, July 19, 1916. — Coil. Prebendary R. J. Burdon. 
Comm. J. E. Little. 
Crithmum maritimum L. Thorney I., W. Sussex, v.e. 13, 
Oct. 11, 1916. This is recorded in Arnold’s “Flora of Sussex” 
for Pilsey, the island saudspit off the south point of Thorney Isle, 
hut not for Thorney Island itself. — J. E. Little. 
Pcucedanum sativum Benth. & Hook. Variety with dissected 
leaves. Norton Common, Letch worth, Herts., v.c. 20, July 4 
and Sept. 1916. — Coll. W. P. Westell, F.L S. Mr. Westell writes 
regarding this : “ My attention was first attracted to this interest- 
ing variety of Peucedanum in June 1915, when about half a score 
of plants, confined to a radius of a few square yards, came under 
my observation on Norton Common, Letcbworth. Early in the 
Spring of 1916 I again visited the station, and found, to my de- 
light, that several plants were already showing well; the deeply- 
cut, parsley-like, leaves seeming to be more pronounced than 
ever. A search elsewhere was also rewarded with the discovery 
of, perhaps, twenty more plants. These, I am inclined to think, 
1 had overlooked in 1915. On July 4th, 1916, I gathered a 
number of the best specimens, and again in September I pro- 
cured a further collection cf leaves from individual plants, aud it 
is from these July and September gatherings that the specimens 
submitted have been made up. I would point out that each set 
of specimens exhibited is from one individual plant, aud that I 
discovered individual plants of sativum, bearing leav cs in a bewil- 
dering variety of form, from the type P. sativum to the extreme 
forms I have pleasure in submitting.” — J. E. Little. This looks 
very interesting, and I have no .similar plants in my herbarium 
with which to match it. It is Surely a very uncommon state. I 
see there is a variety bipinmtifolia Babcy, but I do not know it. 
