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purple, very fragrant ; stolons rooting, long and very slender.” 
I see no reason why your Bitton plant should not belong there. 
The fl. colour fails to be convincing, of course. — E.S.G. 
V. hirta L., var. Foudrasi (Jord.) ( fide Mrs. E. S. Gregory). 
Open wood, Failand, near Bristol, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, April 19 
and June 8, 1917. — Ida M. Roper. Agrees well with Mrs. 
Gregory’s short description : plant small, glabrescent ; flowers 
rather small, with a strongly-hooked spur. — E.S.M. 
V. hirta x < odorata = x V. swperodorata. Ref. No. 1203 
( fide Mrs, Gregory). Hedgerow, Littleton-on-Severn, W. Glos., 
v.c. 34, April 23 and June 23, 1917. — Ida M. Roper. This sug- 
gests a double cross : V. ( hirta x odorata) x odorata. The capsule 
seems to contain perfect seeds ; the simple hybrid is, I think, 
normally sterile. — E.S.M. I have good reason to believe that in 
the genus Viola simple hybrids are capable of producing some 
fertile seeds. By this I do not wish to imply that Mr. Marshall’s 
decision in this case is necessarily incorrect. Miss Roper’s plant 
may prove to be a double cross. — E.S.G. 
V. [arvensis Murr., var. Lloydii (Jord.)]. Plentiful in cultivated 
field of poor land at Sheringham, E. Norfolk, v.c. 27, Sept. 1917. 
— F. Long. This is V. Curtisii Forster, var. Fesneaui (E. G. 
Baker). Most of the specimens show the branching underground 
stems, though less abundantly than the Lancashire coast plants. 
This is probably due to the fact that they were not growing 
actually on sand dunes. — E.D. 
Dianthus glaucus Huds. (1) Well established on limestone 
crags near Charterhouse on Mendip, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 15, 
1917. (2) Form with entire petals, robust, taller and often 
branched stem, and more glaucous in colour than usual, growing 
with the normal plant, June 15, 1917. — H. S. Thompson. 
Silene maritima x latifolia 1 Growing with the former in 
great variety about old lead-workings at Charterhouse on Men- 
dip, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 14, 1917. Type specimens of 
maritima sent for comparison. See Salisbury in “New Phyt.”, 
XI. p. 12 (1912). — H. S. Thompson. Probably the suggested 
hybrid. Nearer in habit to S. latifolia , but the small foliage, 
and especially the calyces, give good evidence of S. maritima 
parentage. — E.S M. 
S. [ italica Pers.]. Chalk cliffs, Kingsdown, Kent, v.c. 15, 
June 30, 1915. — H. E. Fox. This is clearly not S. italica Pers., 
