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officinalis in the neiglibourliood. — T. R. A. B. I should call this 
officinalis on account of its large petals. — J. T. Boswell. 
Draha inuralis, Linn. Limestone rocks, Sleightholme Beck, 
near Bowes, N. A^orks., May 2G, 187G. As it is not recorded in 
the new Flora of Northumberland and Durham, I suppose the 
locality near Bowes will be about its most northern habitat, as it 
is only a few miles fi-om the Durham border. — J. P. Soutter. 
Plentiful in Nurseries at Kelso ; well-established for some years. 
In same sort of habitat at Melrose. — Andrew Brotherston. 
Camel ina sativa, Crantz. A few plants grew in a corn-field 
about a quarter of a mile from Ditton Railway Station, and 
towards the banks of the River Mersey, S. Lancashire. August 
24, 187G. The plants, with one exception, appeared to have been 
cut down when the corn was gathered, so there would be small 
chance of its getting naturalized hereabouts. — Robert Brown. 
Supposed by Mr. Brown to be eu-satira, ‘E. B.,’ iii., but Dr. 
Boswell says : “ C./cetida, not ea-sativa." — T. R. A. B. 
Viola lactca, Sm., b. intermedia, Wats. By a hedge-bank. Egg 
Buckland Down (long ago enclosed), S. Devon, May 11, 187G. 
Coll. T. R. Archer Briggs. This seems quite the same as Mr. 
Watson’s plant mentioned in the ‘ Bot. Exchange Club Report ’ 
for 1875, p. 10, which was collected by the heathy way-side, north 
of Fleetpond, Hants, June, 1875, by Messrs. Watson and Warren, 
which I suggested might be I’, stricta, Hornemann. Mr. Watson 
this year, besides a number of dried specimens, sent me living 
plants of the Fleetpond violet ; and I think there can be no doubt 
that they are lactea, and not stricta. In V. stricta the flowering 
stems are elongated and straight in fruit ; but this is not 
so ill the Surrey plant. Altliough the specimens had not been 
exjiosed to any circumstances lilvely to induce their weak flexuous 
apjtearance. The petals are also narrower than in true 1'. stricta, 
and the flowers are of a very pale purplish-blue as in T. lactea, not 
“ Liliacino-eantlci Koch, nor “ hlen-violet," Gren. a.nd Godr. 
— J. T. Boswell. 
Saponaria officinalis, Linn. var. jmherida, Syme. Hedgebank, 
Hightown, Lancashire, August 5, 1876. — J. W. Burton, tiajiunaria 
ojfficinaUs, var. puhernla, mihi. ‘ B. Ex. C. Report,’ 1872-4, p. 11. 
Mr. H. C. Watson points out to me that in DC. ‘ Prod.,’ vol. i., 
p. 365, this puberulent form is considered the type of the species, 
and that the glabrous variety is entered as ‘ ft. (ilaherrima also 
that in Smith’s ‘ English Flora,’ vol. ii., p. 285, the calyx is 
described as ‘ someAvhat doAvny;’ and that in Bertolini’s ‘Flora 
Italica,’ vol. iv., p. 535 (to which I have not access), the calyx is 
described as ^ seal) rid us.' 1 have not seen either British or foreign 
specimens except Mr. BroAvn’s, in Avhich the calyx Avas not 
glabrous. Koch gives “ Calyce cylindricalc (jlahro ” in italics, con- 
sequently an essential character, ‘ Syn. Florae Germ, et Helv.,’ 
ed. ii., p. 108. Grenier and Godron give “ Calice glabre,” ‘ FI. de 
France,’ vol i., p. 225 ; Boissier “glabra " * calicis glabri,’ and 
of his next species, ‘N. Bodeana,' he says : “ facies pnecedentis sed 
pul)escens,” ‘ Flora Orient.,’ vol i., p. 527. It therefore aiipcars 
