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lax, etc. ; it does not accord with Smith’s figure in E. B. 2206. — 
C. E. Salmon. 
Valeriana officinalis L. (Mikanii Syme). Limestone slope under 
Leigh Woods, N. Somerset, June 28, 1924. — J. W. White. 
Filago afficulata G. E. Smith. Honnington, E. Suffolk, July 
1889. — W. H. Hind. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. To me this 
is just F. germanica. It lacks the characteristic colouring, broader 
foliage, larger capitula, etc., of F. afficulata — to say nothing of 
the crimson-tipped phyllaries. — C. E. Salmon. 
Gnaphalium uliginosum L., var. lasiocarpum Ledeb. Marsh at 
foot of Headen Hill, I. of Wight, Sept. 1925. — J. Groves. 
Fetasites ovatus Hill. Banks of R. Yore, Jervaulx, Wensley- 
dale, N. Riding, June 3, 1925. — J. E. Little. This is the rare 
sub-fertile form which will be welcome to most members. In the 
heads I have examined about 50 per cent, of the florets had pro- 
duced fertile achenes — the rest seemed sterile. — C. E. Salmon. 
Centaur ea Blackdown, W. Sussex. — R. J. Burdon, 
C. nemoralis Jord. — C. E. Britton. 
C. nemoralis Jord., var. minima C. E. Britton. Chalk rubble 
at base of cliff, Kingsdown, E. Kent, v.c. 15, Aug. 1925. — D. G. 
Catcheside. Mr. Britton is not satisfied with most of the 
specimens. 
Hieraciurn decolor Ley. Cult. Wimbledon garden, Sept. 16, 
1925. Orig. Great Orme’s Head, 1922. — H. W. Pugsley. 
[No. 414.] Styles yellow, leaves caesious. This plant stands in 
W. R. Linton’s British Hieracia as a variety of II. caesium Fr., 
but was removed by Augustin Ley to the Oreadea as a distinct 
species in 1909 (Journ. Bot. xlvii, 10). The specimens now 
contributed, which may not be readily recognised as H. decolor , 
were brought from the Great Orme in 1922 and have materially 
changed under cultivation. They have grown into luxuriant 
tufts, and their foliage has become very long and narrow, with 
an increased development of the cauline leaves and of the long 
lower branches of the radicle. Wild plants of this Hawkweed, 
both in Wales and Yorkshire, occasionally develop a similar 
habit, though in a less degree, and as this peculiarity is some- 
times seen in other forms of H. caesium, it may be regarded in 
H. decolor as evidence of affinity with that species. I do not find 
that cultivation produces a corresponding change in the Oreadean 
species, II. Leyi, H. rubicundum, II. britannicum, or H. cambricum, 
of which my garden examples differ little from the wild plants, 
