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most accurate and comprehensive description of habitat; in this 
case, “and neglected arable land” is given. — H. S. Thompson. 
Stachys palustris x silvatica ( S . ambigua Sm.) Austria Inferior. 
— Dr. K. Rechinger. Yes ; S. palustris x silvatica , nearer to the 
first. Can we identify all the forms of this variable hybrid with 
S. ambigua Sm. ? — J. E. Little. It seems to me that if two 
plants give rise to hybrids, ranging from nearly one parent to 
nearly the other, they should all have a separate name, as each 
has a different genetical composition. — D. G. Catcheside. 
Teucrium Botrys Linn. Field near Crundale, E. Kent, v.c. 
15, July, 1926. Leg. J. Jacob. This year the plant was less 
abundant than during 1925, and the specimens I received were 
not so branched or robust. — Comm. J. E. Lousley. 
Ajuga Chamaepitys Schreb. Field near Chipstead, Surrey, 
June 23, 1923. Very scrappy, but I was anxious not to disturb 
the roots, and hence only took small pieces. — J. E. Lousley. 
Mr. Little wrote to me, saying that he thought the specimens 
showed perennial characters, whereas the plants of arable land in 
his district were distinctly annual. The sheet I kept contains 
pieces showing signs of what might be perennating buds, and the 
only root on the sheet shows a single, indistinct annual ring in 
transverse section. The specimens are too incomplete to be con- 
clusive, but they seem to be perennial. Hooker gives the plant 
as annual, Hayward (Druce) as a perennial, and Watson as a 
colonist. It seems to me probable that the length of life of the 
plant is considerably influenced by situation ; plants on undis- 
turbed ground in the Box Hill district are certainly perennial, 
and early in the year show young shoots springing from old 
roots, while plants on arable ground, according to Mr. Little, are 
as definitely annual.- — D. G. Catcheside. Keller and Schinz in 
Flore de la Suisse say annual (in the ordinary sense), and also 
“annuelle hivernante, germant en automne, fleurissant et fructi- 
fiant au printemps de l’annee suivante.” — H.S.T. 
Plantago Coronopus L. var. Pebble beach, Watermouth Bay, 
N. Devon, v.c. 4, Aug. 11, 1924. — D. G. Catcheside. These 
agree with specimens collected on a gravelly path on Quantock, 
W. Somerset, and on a cart-track on (limestone) Mendip, N. 
Somerset; both of which I put under var .pygmaea Lange, which 
can be regarded as little more than a starved ecological state of 
this very polymorphic species.,— H. S. Thompson. “Is not this 
‘ var.’ pygmaea Lange ? I think it is merely a state.” — E. Drabble 
in litt. to J. £. Little. 
