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R. [pseudo-fluitans Bab.]. River Avon, Newton St. Loe, N. 
Somerset, v.c. 6, June 12, 1917. — Ida M. Roper. I have not 
commented on your R. pseudo-fluitans from R. Avon, as I expect 
you have good reasons for so labelling it. From the one speci- 
men I should have thought it R. fluitans , rather than one of the 
river peltatus plants to which I suppose Babington’s pseudo-fluitans 
belonged, but the latter name has been variously used. The 
leaves are few-segmented as in R. fluitans. It is true that there 
are some short bristly hairs on the receptacle, but the receptacle 
of R. fluitans is often only sub-glabrous. — J.G. [in litt.] Your 
specimen seems to me to be best referred to R. fluitans Lam., and 
perhaps to the variety minor {R. Bacliii Wirtg.) of that species. — 
W. P. Hiern. R. fluitans is a new record for v.c. 6. — I.M.R. 
R. Baudotii Godr. Pool near Pagham Rectory, Sussex, v.c. 
13, June 4, 1917. — R. J. Burdon. Two plants here, one R. 
Baudotii, the other a hybrid, probably with R. Baudotii as one 
parent. — J.G. 
R. acris L., f. tomophyllus Jord. Grassy roadside at Cootham, 
W. Sussex, v.c. 13, June 29, 1917. — J. W. White. 
Helleborus occidentalis Reuter (H. viridis L. pro parte). With 
small blotches of purple at base of sepals, as first noticed by Miss 
I. M. Roper in March, 1915 {see “ Jl. Bot.”, 1915, pp. 113, 147). 
Growing with the normal plant in the very old station at Winter- 
head, Sidcot, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, April 26, 1917, fruit June 12, 
1915. — H. S. Thompson. 
Fumaria officinalis L., var. ? Garden weed, Putney, Surrey, 
v.c. 17, July 1917. — H. E. Fox. A very remarkable plant. 
Leaf-segments narrow. Corollas small ; the sepals long, in 
proportion. Fruiting pedicels ascending, very long, 2| to 3 
times exceeding the bracts. Fruit much broader than long, 
abruptly truncate at the top, hardly retuse, rugose. Of our 
named varieties it seems to fit var. minor Haussknecht best ; but 
it does not fully agree with Mr. Pugsley’s description (“ Jl. Bot.”, 
1912, Suppl. p. 52), nor my specimen, so named by him. — E.S.M. 
This is a depauperate shade-form, such as is likely to be produced 
in the garden of a London suburb, and is probably a state of 
ordinary F . officinalis rather than of any variety. — H.W.P. 
Barbarea vulgaris Ait., var. arcuata Fr., sub-var. brachjcarpa 
A. B. Jackson {fide A.B.J.). Wymondley Road, Hitchin, Herts., 
v.c. 20, July 15, 1917. All sheets from one plant. — J. E. Little. 
