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Hieracium ncrvegicwn , Fries. Sea coast at Reay, Caithness, ioth 
July, 1886. — F. J. Hanbury. Mr. Hanbury has sent some beautifully 
dried specimens of this Hieracium from the same place where it was 
discovered by him for Britain in 1885. — E. F. Linton. 
Hypochceris glabra , L., var. Balbisii , Lois. Berechurch, Essex N., 
26th July, 1886. These plants, which will no doubt be welcomed, to 
judge from the difficulty we have found in procuring the variety our- 
selves, were gathered under circumstances which tend to show that 
the variation is a doubtfully permanent one. In a sandy field, so light 
that the barley crop for 1886 was more than half of it being ploughed 
in as a failure, we gathered a fair amount of H. glabra , L., growing in 
company with Silene anglica , Filago apiculata , and F. gallica , in plenty, 
and a plant or two of Arnoseris pusilla , before we could detect a single 
specimen of H. Balbisii . The two forms were growing side by side, 
and every plant had to be examined independently to see whether it 
were the type or the variety. The type preponderated ; but the var. 
proved also fairly plentiful. — E. F. and W. R. Linton. “ Hypochceris 
Balbisii .” — C. C. Babington. 
Leontodon autumnalis , L., var. pratensis , Koch. West cliff of 
Carnedd Dafydd, Carnarvon, 16th August, 1886.- — Augustin Ley. 
Orkneys, 1886. — W. R. Linton. S. Aberdeen, 1885. — H. E. Fox. 
In one or two of Mr. Fox’s plants the bracts were scarcely clothed 
enough to represent Koch’s variety well, but the rest of his were right, 
as were the others. — E. F. L. 
Statice Dodartii, Gir. Portland Island, Dorset, ioth August, 1886. 
This plant, originally so named by Babington from Henslow’s specimen, 
was afterwards submitted to M. Boissier, who stated it to be “ tres cer- 
tainement Siatice Dodartii , Gir.” It is the only species of the genus 
known in Portland, and has been viewed in situ by Dr. Syme. He 
considered it his intermedia. On this Mr. Hewett Watson (1873) 
remarked, “ the Statice is what Syme in E. B. 3 calls intermedia, 
which, in truth, is rather shying than solving the question whether it 
is occidentalis ox Dodartii l To my thinking it is both. Syme’s inter- 
media seems to be simply those particular examples which we doubt 
about naming with either name positively.” My opinion is that we 
must admit S. Dodartii and the intermediate form named by Syme to 
be substantially the same thing. The examination of a series of 
specimens will convince anyone that both forms are varietally identical, 
being alike a condensed, dwarfed state of occidentalis , Lloyd. — Jas. W. 
White. 
Primula scotica , Hook. Hilly pasture, Cauldrus, Sandwick, 
Orkney, 23rd July, 1886. The few specimens sent are acaulescent, 
and therefore come under the so-called var. acaulis , London. Cat. ; 
but I have not labelled them under this name for the following 
reasons : — Acaulescent plants produced scapes the first year under 
cultivation, and one plant in the wild state flowered twice in the same 
year, first with pedicels (var. acaulis ) and second with a scape 
(P. scotica). It is, therefore, evident that the acaulescent character 
does not constitute a true variety, and the var. acaulis should be 
omitted from the next edition of the London Catalogue, — H. H. 
Johnston. 
