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Alsine hybrida , Vill. Culford Heath, Suffolk, August 1883 — 
G. C. Druce. “ I should have named this A. tenuifolia, Crantz., 
var. laxa , Syme.” — A. Bennett. “ Surely viscosa is the right name.” — 
C. C. Babington. 
Geranium Robertianum , L., modestum . Shore, Whiting Bay, 
Arran, September nth, 1863 . — Augustin Ley. This appears to be 
ordinary sea-side G. Robertia?ium. I fear cannot be distinguished 
from purpureum, Forster, although probably not of Villars, G.N. 
Ulex Gallii , Planchon. Leigh Wood, North Somerset, Sep. 25th, 
1883. Top. Bot. containing no record for vice Co. 6, these speci- 
mens will afford one. Locality was published in the “ Flora of the 
Bristol Coalfields,” part II., 1882 . — James W. White. 
Ononis repens , L., var. horrida , Lange ! Sandhills, Yarmouth, 
East Norfolk, August, 1883 . — Arthur Bennett. 
O. amensts , Auct. b. repens. Coble Dene, North Shields, August, 
1883. — W. H. Brown. This appears to be nothing but typical 
O. arvensis , G.N. Shingly beach, Llanfairfechan, Carnarvonshire, 
July, 1883, J. Cosmo Melvill. “This is repens of the London 
Catalogue as I understand it, and certainly is not the O. repens , L., 
(Lange) ” — Arthur Bennett. 
Trifolium filiforme , L. Holme Fen, Hunts., July 23rd, 1883. — 
W. R. Linton. A specimen under this name was sent as a new 
record. It is, however, simply small T. minus , Relh. 
T. agrarium , L, Field of sown grass at Balbairdrie, Balmuto 
Common in all fields in which Alsike Clover ( Trifolium hybridum / 
is sown with grass seeds — not naturalized even. — J. T. Boswell. 
For a paper, by Dr. Buchanan White, on the claims of this species to 
be regarded as a probable British plant, see Scottish Naturalist, N. S., 
iv., p.178. 
Lotus major , Scop., monstrosity. Pond nearly drained in waste 
field, Platt’s Lane, near Child’s Hill, Middlesex, 1882 . — Eyre de 
Crespigny. This is simply a proliferous state of Trifolium repens , L. 
Lotus tenuis , Kit, Near Slinfold, Sussex. Grows in abundance over 
about an acre of land in company with L. corniculatus and Z. major. 
Although many of the plants have attenuated stems, linear leaflets, 
and solitary pods, affording examples of extreme tenuis , others shew 
affinity to L. corniculatus , and plants can be seen differing from the 
latter only by their diffuse and straggling habit. — J as. W. White. 
Vida sylvatica , L., condensata , Druce, MS. This interesting 
maritime variety occurred on the shingly shore of Port William, 
Wigton. It occurred in compact prostrate masses, about a yard 
across, and when first seen without flowers suggested V. Orobus, so 
rigid was it in habit, and its leaves so firm in consistence. It differs 
from the sylvestral plant by the rigid stems, leaflets semi-coriaceous 
and often glaucous, by the much shorter peduncles with dense not 
lax racemes, the pedicels being also shorter ; the flowers are suffused 
with purplish brown, and are smaller — half-inch — than the type plant. 
Of course the place of growth accounts for these peculiarities, but 
such an unusual form seems worthy of varietal distinction. The plant 
was fruiting abundantly. Mr. Britten sees nothing in it worthy of 
such notice. — G. C. Druce. 
