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of rare plants from southern Italy, mostly collected by Di. 0. 
Gavioli in a district in Lucania where no one else is known to 
have collected. To these I had the pleasure of adding some o 
the duplicates of the late Cedric Bucknall. 
Dr. Briquet expressed a wish to buy a set of our Reports foi 
the library in his charge, and as many as possible were gladly 
given to him. And Mr. White and I showed our appreciation 
of Monsieur Briquet’s kind gift by posting him two large parcels 
of British plants, which are poorly represented at Geneva, as is 
the case in most continental herbaria. 
The 400 sheets of Scandinavian plants (largely grasses) sent 
in exchange by Dr. Lindman, of Stockholm, a promised parcel 
from Mr. Holmboe, of Bergen, and some British and European 
specimens given to Mr. Little by the Rev. F. A. Rogers, will be 
dealt with next winter. Meanwhile a selection from the Stock- 
holm parcel has been made by Mr. Wilmott for the Herb. Brit. 
Mus. ; and while the collection was there other subscribers in 
the London area had the opportunity of seeing it, and of taking 
some sheets. 
It is with deep regret we hear, on going to press, that Mr. 
Wm. Barclay died at Perth on May 10th. 
H. S. THOMPSON, 
Son. Sec. 
Cirsium eriophorum Scop. Sub-sp. anglicum Petrak. A wish 
having been expressed that a photograph of this handsome 
thistle, which Dr. Petrak, of Mahr-Weisskirchen, Czecho slovakia, 
has named sub-sp. anglicum, might appear in the Report, we are 
indebted to the Editor of “The Garden” for the loan of a block. 
The photograph appeared in that journal on Oct. 28, 1922. A 
different one was published in “Gard. Chron.” Oct. 14, 1922. 
After examination of ample dried specimens sent last Septem- 
ber to Dr. Petrak for his Cirsiotlieca, he was satisfied that the 
English plant is “ certainly different from the forms found on the 
continent; a good race, and easily distinguishable by the struc- 
ture of the scales of the involucre and the size and shape of the 
flower-heads.” His monograph on the genus Cirsium was delayed 
by the war, and is not yet published. 
The photographs were taken on August 21, and the plants 
collected from a steep slope of rough pasture resting on Lower 
Lias, above the Chew Valley, between Bristol and Bath, where 
the plant is very abundant. Some of the largest of the handsome 
