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stone, and true hirta is abundant in parts of tlic district. This 
Cherry-wood plant is slightly scented, as odorata. The same, or a 
violet closely resembling this, is abundant in copses on the sand- 
stone at Brointon, Herefordshire, where no true /(h/a that I know 
of occurs. — Augustin Ley. I continue to have much doubt and 
difficulty about these plants. Jordan finds a difference in the 
form of the leaves between V. permixta and V. sepincoJa. I do not 
find any difference between the specimens sent and all named 
2 )ermixta . — C. C. Babington. 
V. lacteu, Sm. Gravelly heath. Staplers, Isle of Wight, June 
7, 1877. — Feed. Stratton. Lizard Down and Debigna Wood, W. 
Cornwall, June, 1877. — J. Cunnack. I would rather label some of 
Mr. Stratton’s specimens as the var. b. intermedia, Wats. Still I 
believe lactea is only a variety of Linnean canina, as Babington 
makes it. — T. E. A. Briggs. 
V. tricolor, var. Sandy ground, St. Martin’s, Scilly Islands, 
July 3, 1877. — J. Kales. It is certainly, as Mr. Baker thought, 
very like V. parvula. Tin., but seems to be too much branched. 
My Sicilian specimens of V. parrnla are nearly simple, as described 
by Gussone ; ours are all much branched. But other specimens 
from Sicily, named and distributed by Huet de Pavilion, are 
exceedingly like ours and branched.— C. C. Babington. 
r. Curtidi, Forst. Lytham sandhills, Lancashire, June, 1877. 
A hitherto (so far as I can find out) unrecorded locality, but, 
as the various examples will show, represented here most abun- 
dantly in well nigh every variety of form, and likewise gradation 
of colour. The most frequent are the wholly purple, or wholly 
yellow — the latter much resembling V. lutea, Huds., but smaller. 
The species is far more abundant at Lytham than at Southport or 
New Brighton sandhills ; indeed, though the latter place is 
mentioned in all the floras as a habitat of V. Curtidi, a diligent 
though fruitless search in the summers of 18G8 and 1869 causes 
me to believe it to be now extinct in this locality. — J. C. Melville. 
Pobj(jala depressa. Wend. Aberdour, Fife, July 26, 1877. — D. 
Douglas. Mr. Douglas sent me a specimen of this, which I 
named P. oxijptera. On seeing a number of specimens I am now 
convinced I was wrong, and that it is P. depressa, but a form 
approaching P. ox)jj>tera . — J. T. Boswell. 
Hypericum linarifolium, Vahl. Christow, on rocks a mile or 
more from Kiver Teign, June, 1877. Eocks near Elver Teign, 
Trusham, June 20 and September, 1877.— W. Moyle Eogers. 
Tilia yrandifolia, Ehrh. Very abundant in the woods, clothing 
the gorge of the Teme at Dowuton Castle, Herefordshire. It has 
all the appearance of being native here, groAviug mixed with oak 
and other native timber. The valley of the Teme at Downton 
bears great resemblance to that of the Wye, at Symond’s Yat, 
where this lime is also abundant. — Augustin Ley. 
Geranium, nodosum, L. , Abundantly naturalized near Malvern, 
Worcestershire, July, 1877. — J. C. Melville. 
G. liohertianum ,1 j., h. modrstum. Shady rocky ravine, Christow, 
S. Devon, June 23, 1877. — W. Moyle Eogers. Although having 
