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stronger plant, with a quite different scent, reddish purple Howers, 
less hairy, that grows by ditches in moist meadows. This 
specimen seems identical with the second form. I will try to 
collect both of ours for the Watson Club next year, if I am at 
home at the right time, — C.C.L. 
M. aquatica x longifolia ( x hircina Hull). Lane above 
Weston-in-Gordano, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, Aug. 27, 1919. — Ida M. 
Roper. Very likely right. — E.F.L. Most certainly the spikes 
have an appearance of longifolia , and of the two forms under 
M. puhescens Miss Roper’s specimen is certainly nearer hircina 
than palustris. But M. puhescens Willd. has no existence in his 
herbarium (which I have seen), and Deseglise, Strail and Malin- 
vaud all refuse to place bis name to it. Miss Roper’s plant is 
much rarer than M. palustris Sole, the other form placed under 
puhescens by British authors. — A.B. This may or may not be 
M. aquatica x longifolia , but it is not M. piperita sylvestris of Sole’s 
figure, which Hull quotes for his M. hircina . The leaves do not 
agree. An interesting plant; of which I should like to see 
more. — C.C.L. The sheet forwarded shows a slender narrow- 
leaved specimen of M. pubescens Willd., but its leaves are not 
subglabrous above, as they should be for M. hircina. If M. 
pubescens is a hybrid between M. aquatica and M. longifolia , it is 
curious that its leaves show no trace of the impressed venation 
characteristic of the latter. — H.W.P. 
Thymus [ Serpyllum L.]. Caldecote, W. Norfolk, v.c. 28, July 
11, 1919. — J. E. Little. The capitate form of T. ovatus Miller, 
which equals T. glaber of Miller, I consider. I have called it 
T. ovatus, subvar. glaber. T. Serpyllum is stoloniferous, which 
this does not appear to be. — A.B.J. 
Galamintha arvensis Lamk. In last year’s oat stubble, about 
to be ploughed, top of Tickenham Hill, 500 ft., N. Somerset, 
v.c. 6, Aug. 16, 1919. Rarely in cultivated ground m Somerset. 
— H. S. Thompson. This looks like an approach to the var. 
canescens. C. Acinos Clairv., var - . canescens Coss. Is C. arvensis 
Lamk. really the same species as C. Acinos Clairv. 1 It has larger 
flowers, etc. — A.B. 
Nepeta hederacea Trev., f. parvifora Benth. Rough field, 
Tickenham Hill, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, May 9, 1918. FIs pistillate, 
corolla 5 mm. long. — I. M. Roper. Yes ; but see “Report Wats. 
E. C.”, 1897 — 8, p. 16, and “Journ. Bot.”, 1913, p. 306, and 
1916, p. 65. One flower examined on Miss Roper’s specimens 
had rudimentary stamens only. — C.E.S. 
