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BOTANICAX EXCHANGE CLUB. 
being a radiate form of S. vuUjnris, L., was founded. It is, when 
well developed, a much-branched plant, with larger heads than 
S. vulgaris, and longer peduncles ; the heads droop less than in 
examples of S. vulgaris of similar size, and' the achenes are more 
oblong-fusiform, and the ligulate florets of the ray become revolute 
in the evening. I do not And this noticed in descriptions of 
S. vernalis ; but it appears to occur in the allied species, for 
example, in the Maden-a S. incrassatus, Lowe (S. crassifoUus, 
Lowei, D.C.), Lowe ‘FI. Mad.,’ p. 446; also in S. coro7iopi- 
f alius, Desf., and S. leucanthemif alius, Poh‘. (teste ‘Boissier FI. Or.,’ 
vol. hi., p. 388.) The Cork jflant agrees with Hungarian specimen 
of 8. vernalis, but not with one from Smyrna (Balansa, No. 241) ; 
but Boissier says of it (/. c.), “ Species foliorum divisione, caulibus 
plus minus elongatis et in excelsioribus nanis valde polymor^^ha.” 
If the Cork plant be 8 . vernalis, it cannot well be indigenous, as 
the species is confined to S. E. Europe. — J. T. Boswell, May 17, 
1878. 
T. K. AKCHEE BEIGGS, 
Curatar. 
Jayiuary 3, 1878. 
T. 1'. NEWMAN, I’RINTER, BOTOLI’H LANE, KASTCHEAP, LONDON, E.C. 
