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the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ 1876, by Mr. E. A. Pryor (p. 214), and 
Prof. Babington (p. 244). Neither has any claim to be considered 
a British plant. S. asperrimiim I have from the neighbourhood 
of Bath, sent to the Botanical Society of London, by Mr. French, 
about twenty-five years ago ; the other form I had sent from Bath 
by Mr. T. B. Flower and Mr. C. E. Broom, while I was writing the 
genus Symphitum in the third edition of ‘ English Botany,’ — these 
were sent to me as S. asperrimum. I have also a specimen from 
the Eev. W. H. Purchas, labelled Symphitum orientale ? by the 
Eiver Bradford, near Yurlgrave, Derbyshire, July, 1876. Very 
probably this is the plant mentioned by Mr. Pryor in the ‘ Journal 
of Botany.’ The plant which I consider true asperrwium has the 
veins of the leaves deeply impressed, so that they appear very 
rugose, the stem leaves not decurrent, and with longer petioles, 
and even the floral leaves scarcely so, the flowers bright blue, 
with the apical portion not much wider than the tube, and 
fuiTowed. The other plant has the leaves less rugose and 
distinctly decurrent, though much less so than in S. officinale, 
the flowers pale blue, more dingy than in asperrimum, and the 
apical . portion swollen until its diameter is much greater than 
that of the tube, and not at all furrowed. In flower it very 
closely resembles specimens of S. uplandicuvi, Nyman, which 
I have from Dr. Ahlberg, of Ujisala ; but unfortunately I have 
not seen fruiting specimens of this plant, which Fries con- 
siders to be the true S. orientale of Linnaeus, and of which he 
says : “ Medium inter 8. officinale et S. asperrimum." The plant I 
have in cultivation difters from 8. officinale in its greater size, ovate- 
cordate root-leaves slightly decurrent on the petiole, much less 
decurrent stem-leaves, and larger flowers ; but, above all, by the 
calyx segments in fruit becoming mmicated as in 8. asperrimum. 
The hairs on the branches are also stifl’erthan those of 8. officinale, 
but much less so than in true 8 . asperrimum. With 8 . orientale, 
DC. Prod., it has no atfinity. — J. T. Bosv'ell. 
Utricularia neylecta, Lehm. Pond, Kelvedon, Essex, September, 
1876. — E. G. Vaeenne. The young leaves are bristly, as in the 
Penzance plant (ride ‘Eep. B. E. C.,’ 1875, p. 23.)— T. E. A. B. 
As there is no doubt of this being true U. neylecta, Eeichenbach’s 
statement that the young leaves are “not bristly” is not to be 
considered a constant distmetion from V. rulyaris . — J. T. Boswell. 
Statice hahusiensis. Fries. Some time since, my attention was 
directed by the Eev. H. H. Higgins to the two forms of Statice 
growing on the Mersey shore at Bromborough, but I did not visit 
the locality until Mr. Eobert Brown informed me that his attention 
had been drawn to the fact that specimens in the Edinburgh Her- 
barium, collected by the late Dr. Dickenson, proved to be the above 
species. On the second of September, Mr. Brown and myself 
found that plant growing abundantly at the above locality inter- 
mixed with a few plants of typical Limonium. This is a welcome 
addition to our Cheshire Flora.- — H. S. Fishek. 
Amaranthus alhus and A. retrojie.vus, Linn. Both very sparingly, 
with Setaria riridis, Polyyonum elatum, and other weeds, in an 
