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Wahlenbergia hederacea Reichb. Boggy meadow, Earlswood, 
Monmouthshire, v.c. 35, Sept. 2, 1918. — Mr. Whitley. Comm. 
Nat. Museum of Wales. The distribution in the British 
Isles and on the Continent of this “ Atlantic ” or Western 
species is so interesting that a detailed study of it might be 
profitable. Apparently it extends here and there from 
Portugal and Dalmatia on the Adriatic to Denmark and 
N.W. Germany. But it is absent from Italy (where there 
are other species) and strangely so from Switzerland. In 
Ireland S. and S.E. it is rare, but gets as far north as Co. 
Dublin. In Britain it skips the Lake District and the West 
Lowlands to reappear in Ayr, Renfrew and Argyle. One is 
inclined to suggest that the distribution of this elegant little 
plant is influenced by other factors than climate and habitat 
merely. Its absence from N. Somerset, except the southern 
peat moor, is more remarkable than its total absence from 
N. Wilts. — H. S. Thompson. 
Symphytum cceruleum Petitm. Cult, in the garden of 
Bristol University from a root procured from Germany by 
the late Prof. Leipner, June, 1928. — Jas. W. White. 
Symphytum ibericum Stev. By pond at Woodhill, Send, 
Surrey, June, 1928. I call this S. ibericum by what I have seen 
of Mr. White’s specimens, though it has been named by the 
Kew authorities S. orientate. — W. Biddiscombe. Yes. See 
W.E.B.C. Rep. 1917-18, p. 67. — I. M. Roper. I agree. 
Much larger than plants cultivated at Bristol, but the luxuri- 
ance may be due to its wet situation. If not planted at 
Woodhill this is probably its first recorded occurrence in a 
semi-naturalized state in this country. A native of the 
Caucasian region. Bucknall in his Revision of the Genus 
Symphytum, p. 494, explains that the name S. grandiflorum 
D.C., although so inappropriate, has priority. Steven dis- 
covered the plant in 1805, and called it S. ibericum, but it 
does not appear that he published a description until 1851. 
In the meantime De Candolle in the Prodr omus (1846) had 
described it as S. grandiflorum from specimens received 
from Tiflis. — Jas. W. White. 
Myosotis . By Walton Bridge, Middlesex, v.c. 21, 
July 1, 1928. — E. C. Wallace. I take this to be the plant 
which Du Mortier, in his “ Bouquet du Littoral Beige,” p. 32 
{1869), named Myosotis coronaria var. Reichenbachiana . 
Du Mortier in the above mentioned work includes under 
