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Mus. Brit, from Kingshouse, the locus classics, which agrees well 
with Marshall’s description ; but specimens from other Highland 
localities, authenticated by him, are less distinct and show a 
transition to a narrow-leaved form of ordinary R. Flammula. 
I can see no sufficient ground for treating the original R. petiolaris 
as more than a variety of R. Flammula. In Mr. Shoolbred’s 
specimen the stem is ascending from a decumbent base, the only 
remaining radical leaf has an elliptical blade, and the leaves 
generally are obscurely toothed and not very long petioled, while 
there are nine bovvers in the panicle. I think that this specimen 
can hardly be referred to var. petiolaris but must be regarded as 
a narrow-leaved form only of R. Flammula, which, I believe, is 
not uncommon on acid soils, especially in the Western Highlands 
— H. W. Pugsley. 
Fumaria purpurea Pugsley. Roadside, Beechlands, Belfast, 
Co. Antrim, Aug. 24, 1924. Determined by Mr. Pugsley. — 
Jas. W. White. Good and well-dried specimens of this uncom- 
mon species, which has seldom been distributed through the 
Club. It is to be feared that in England F. purpurea is becoming 
scarcer. — H.W.P. 
F. Boraei Jord., var. britannica Pugsley. Near Ilfracombe, 
N. Devon, v.c. 4, Aug. 18, 1924.— -D. G. Catcheside. This is 
F. Boraei Jord., but scarcely my variety britannica, which has 
relatively smaller sepals and more rotund fruits. There is a 
great variety of forms of F. Boraei about Ilfracombe, connecting 
the type with var. britannica and var. ambigua. — H.W.P. 
Barbarea vulgaris R. Br., var. transiens Druce. See Journ. 
Bot. 1910, p. 208. Border of Held, Tyndall’s Park, Bristol, v.c. 
34, June 16, 1923. — Jas. W. White. Correct. — A.B J. 
B. [intermedia Bor.] By the Frome, Iron Acton, W. Gloster, 
v.c. 34, Aug. 12, 1924. Sent to show vegetative reproduction 
some way up the stem by vigorous shoots from the leaf axil. 
Such method of reproduction in Barbarea appears not to have 
been recorded, although buds on leaves are not uncommon in 
certain Crucifers. Prof. F. 0. Bovver, in Botany of the Living 
Plant, considers the development of adventitious buds is due to 
some stress, but in this case several plants gave oft’ shoots, and 
no stem showed any trace of injury. It is noticeable that the 
young leaves resemble those of B. vulgar is, and not the parent. 
Ida M. Roper. An interesting case of proliferation, no doubt 
induced by the wet summer. But the plant is B. vulgaris B. Br. 
not B. intermedia Bor. — A.B.J. 
