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0. pndermissa Druce. Luffenham, Rutland, v.c. 55, May 15, 
1916. — A. R. Horwood. Yes; but I have not yet been able to 
understand why 0. prcetermissa Druce is not 0. latifolia L. — 
C.C.L. [Later in litt.] 0. prcetermissa, which grows within half 
a mile of my house, and has there been recognised by Dr. Druce, 
is identical with the plant that I have collected in France, which 
is known to French botanists as 0. latifolia.— C.C.L. Yes ; this 
is what I take to be 0. prcetermissa. — FLW.P. 
Polygonatum officinale All. Rocky slope of Leigh Woods, N. 
Somerset, v.c. 6, May 31, 1919. Still, fortunately, in some 
quantity very locally, growing with Convallana. — H. S. Thompson. 
Agreed. — C.C.L. 
Allium vineale L., var. bulbiferum Syme. W. side of Chichester 
Harbour, W. Sussex, v.c. 13, Aug. 4, 1919. — R. J. Burdon. I 
think correct. — H.W.P. 
Fritillaria Meleagris L , f. alba. Field, Elmore, E. Glos., v.c. 
33, Apr. 26, 1918. Growing in large quantity, white flowers 
only. Is this form a distinct variety ? It is stated to blossom a 
fortnight earlier than type. — Coll. J. W. Haines. Comm. I. M. 
Roper. 
Juncus bufonius L. (Ref. Nos. 454 a, b, c). Paths and tracks 
on Countisbury Common (alt. 1000 feet), N. Devon, v.c. 4, Aug. 
5, 1917. — W. C. Barton. Ref. No. 454 A. Several on my sheet 
are very small specimens of J. bufonius , var. congestus Wahlb. 
(1820); the synonymy of which is J. mutabilis Savi (1798); 
J. hybridus Brotero pro parte (1804); J. congestus Schousboe in 
E. Meyer (1822); J. insulanus Yiv. (1824); J. bufonius , var. 
fasciculatus Koch(1837); J. fasciculatus Bertol. (1839)non Schousb. ; 
J. bufonius , var. fasciculiflorus Boiss. (1845); J. querioides Pourret 
ex Willk. et Lange Prodr. (1861); J. bufonius « compadus Celak. 
(1869); J. bufonius ft glomeratus Regel (1880). According to 
Buchenau this plant is one of the many forms of J. bufonius 
which do not show any sufficiently constant character to be 
maintained in the rank of variety. In the winter of 1907 — 8 1 
found this plant from many parts of the world in the great her- 
baria at Geneva ; and I published in “Bulletin de 1’Herb. Bois- 
sier” (1908) a “Note sur les Juncus bicephalus Viv. et J. bufonius, 
var. fascicidatus Koch,” in which it was pointed out that in Coste’s 
“Flore de la France,” III., p. 446, the plant he figures and de- 
cribes as J. Ucephalus Viv. is not that rare Rush from Corsica, 
Sardinia, and Majorca (which Buchenau in his monograph of 
Juncaceee in Engler’s “ Pflanzenreich,” 1906, places as a variety 
