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(lah'.o}>sis speciosa Mill. (Ref. No. 1473.) 61, S.E. Yorks.; in a pea 
field, on the east side of the lUver Hull, north of Hull Bridge, near 
Beverley, July 11th, 1948. — R. Lewis. 
(■henopodiinn albuin L. [(Jhenopodiu)n Zschuckei Mui-r.]. I, West 
Oormvall; j)otato field, Lambourne Hill, Perranzabuloe, Aug. 23rd, 
1948, seedling Aug. 4th, 1948 (from a late cro]>). I first saw this plant 
at Falmouth Docks in 1916 and latterly it has become a troublesome 
weed of b roccoli and |)otato fields in Perranzabuloe. We knew it for 
long as Badundleri Moq. Besides the small seeds it is notable for 
the puii)le raealine.ss of the rosettes of the seedling plants and fre- 
quently the amaianth-pur|)le stain in the leaf-axils of mature plants. 
The la.st has disa])peared from the dried s])ecimens, all of which were 
cut to show it. — F. Rilstoxe. “ The specimens seen are not Cheno- 
pudium Zs'cha.ckei Murr., which is a North American plant (though oc- 
curring here as an alien) now placed by Dr Aellen as a subspecies of 
('. Jitrlandieri Moq. The most striking character of the latter, and 
its subspecies, is to be seen in the testa of the seed, which is closely 
and minutely pitted, the ridges se])aratiug the pits forming the pattern 
of a honeycomb. The seeds of Mr Rilstone’s plant show the radiating 
furrows on the testa accompanied by smaller and irregular roughnesses 
characteristic of ('. (dbum L.; their diameter is about 1.5-1. 7 mm. 
which is well within the range of the last-named s))ecies. Purple meali- 
ness also occurs not uncommon’y in young plants of C. album, though 
the amaranth-purple stain in the axils is certaiidy unusual; it does 
occur, but always a|)i)areutly paler and less vivid than in C. Berlan- 
dlvn and its hybidd with C. album {xC. variabile Aell.). Mr Ril- 
stoiie notes that the stain occurs ‘frequently’ in the Cornish ])lant; 
it would be worth knowing if the examples distributed actually showed 
it when alive; the colour more or less disa])pears in drying. I can thus 
refer Air Rilstone’s i)lant only to C. albuin L., in a wide sense, thougli 
though it may well be a form alien in origin. Similarly robust aud 
unusual-looking forms occur not infrequently on tips and in the neigh- 
bourhood of ports.” — J. P. AI. Brenan. 
Boiijijoii ain lapathifulinm L. with the appearance of P. Persicaria. 
1, W. Cornwall; he'd weed, Jjambourne Hill, i’erranzabuloe, Aug 30th, 
1948.^ — F. Rilstoxe. ” This form has been noted in North Wiltshire 
several times. It grows to a greater height than other forms, and J 
am inclined to a.ssociate it with damp habitats.” — J. D. Grose. ‘‘ I 
should call this robust P. nudusum Pers.” — A. E. Wade. 
Piimcx tenidfolius (Wallr.) Love. 26, W. Suffolk; Thetford Warren 
(which is in the borough of Thetford, Norfolk), June 26th, 1948. This 
characteristic Breckland i)lant has been well known to British botanists 
for neaily 70 years and has sometimes been labelled B. Acetosella L. 
var. anc/iistifolius Koch, or var. teniufolius Wallr. Love’s cytogenetic 
work showed that similar Scandinavian plants had the tetraploid chro- 
