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Epilobium montanum , L. Form. Garden weed, Malvern Link, 
Worcestershire, 29th June, 1888. This form having the leaves in 
threes, though not at all rare, occurred in an unusual quantity in an 
uncultivated garden. With it were also plants with alternate leaves, 
and one root showed examples of stems respectively having leaves 
singly, in twos and in threes. — R. F. Towndrow. Also from 
Unwell Wood, Berks. — G. C. Druce. It is the so-called var. 
verticillatum of Koch in ‘Flor. Germ.’ p. 265, and ‘Sturm. FI.’ 17, 
72, 1838, and more fully described in Haussknecht’s ‘Monographic 
der Gattung Epilobium,’ 1884, p. 75; “i. verticillata : foliis ternatis 
rarius quaternis, floralibus alternantibus.” I saw a specimen at 
Aberfeldy, Mid-Perth, this year. — Ed. 
E. montanum , L. f. minor, Haussk. Aberfeldy, by Moness Falls, 
Mid-Perth, August, 1888. — G. C. Druce. 
E. montanum , L. monstrosity. A form with very small flowers, 
and the flower stalks much branched, probably from an aphis, with 
which it was infested. Den of Lawers, Mid-Perth, and Dalmally, 
Argyll, August, 1888. Also a large much branched form with purple 
flowers from same localities, which Prof. Haussknecht passed as 
montanum. — G. C. Druce. 
E. montanum x obscurum, Schreb. Brailsford, S. Derbyshire, 6th 
October, 1888. — W. R. Linton. Passed by Monsieur Barbey. 
E. montanum , L. x lanceolatwn , Seb. et Maur. Near Canterbury, 
E. Kent, September, 1888. — G. C. Druce. Teste Prof. Haussknecht. 
E. roseum x parviflorum. Pickersleigh, Malvern, Worcestershire, 
3rd September, 1888, stigmas lobed. — R. F. Towndrow. Passed by 
Mons. Barbey. 
E. obscurum, Schreb., var. aprica , Haussknecht. Bruern Wood, 
July, 1885. — G. C. Druce. See ‘FI. Oxf.’ p. 117. 
E. obscurum x palustre. Dalmally, Argyll ; teste Haussknecht ; 
August, 1888. — G. C. Druce. 
E. obscurum , Schreb. x palustre , L. Brailsford, S. Derbyshire, 
September, 1888. I am doubtful about this plant, and think it to be 
a form of obscurum only. — W. R. Linton. Passed by Mons. Barbey. 
E. Lamyi, Schultz. Hort., Bangor. Seeds from Mr. Towndrow, 
Malvern. — J. E. Griffith. Mons. Barbey does not include this in 
the list of specimens which he passes as correct. He may have over- 
looked it. — Ed. 
E. palustre, L., var. lineare (Krause), Hausskn. Headingtonwick, 
Oxon., July, 1885. Boat of Garten, Easterness, August, 1888. 
Haussknecht describes it, Lc., p. 130, as “d. angustifolia : fol. 2-3 
m.m. latis, varia longitudine, venis destitutis vel vix indicatis.” — 
G. C. Druce. 
E. anagallidifolium, Lamk. (1786). Ben Laoigh, Argyle, Co, 98, 
August, 1888. — G. C. Druce. Prof. Haussknecht quotes as a 
synonym of this plant, E. repens, ‘Hill’s Brit. Herbal,’ 1756, an 
ante-binomial work ; and adopts Lamarck’s name. He rejects the 
Linnaean name of alpinum as dubious, as he also does E. tetra- 
gonum with greater reason. If such a name as E. alpinum be 
discarded, how few of the Linnaean names would be retained ! — Ed. 
