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Cardamine dent at a, Schultz. Mr. George Nicholson sends a 
supply of this plant from the banks of the Thames, May, 1879, the 
name of which has been confirmed by Monsieur Casimir De Candolle, 
from a comparison of the Kew plant with specimens in the 
“ Prodromus ” Herbarium, at Geneva. Mr. Nicholson has drawn 
attention to this plant in his article on ‘ Cardamine pratentis , L., and 
its segregates,’ in the ‘Journal of Botany’ for July, 1880, p. 202. He 
there describes it as affecting “ boggy or damp, woody spots, and its 
long radical leaves are not spreading as in C. pratensis , but are erect 
or spreading, and are composed of much fewer, larger, angled, and 
toothed leaflets, the terminal one being generally cuneate. The 
flowers are white or pale lilac, and the inflorescence is more elon- 
gated than that of the other forms.” Prof. Babington says this is 
only a form of pratensis, and he has seen it near Cambridge. Dr. 
Boswell considers this plant, and the one next named, as luxuriant 
and starved states of C. pratensis . 
Cardamine allied to Hayneana , Welwitsch. Mr. George 
Nicholson also distributes specimens of a plant he collected between 
Kew and Mortlake. In the ‘Journal of Botany,’ Mr. Nicholson 
says it agrees thoroughly with Welwitsch’s specimens, and only differs 
in its having lanceolate leaves. 
Cardamine impatiens , L., from near Maplehurst, Kent, is sent by 
Mr. W. H. Beeby. It is queried as extinct in Top. Bot. 
Barbarea arcuata , Reich. Two or three portions of a fruiting 
specimen sent by Dr. R. L. Baker, from Chesterton, Warwick, 
July, 1879. 
Cochlearia officinalis, L. Dr. Boswell sends a macrocarpous 
form from Burntisland, Fife, June 1879. 
Lepidium Smithii, Hook. Mr. G. C. Druce sends specimens 
with yellow anthers, from a railway bank, Kingsthorpe, Northampton- 
shire. A few of the anthers have a livid-purplish tinge, but the 
majority are decidedly yellow. 
Viola lactea , Sm., b. intermedia, is sent by Mr. T. R. Archer 
Brtggs, from waste ground in an enclosure by Roborough Down, 
near Plymouth, S. Devon, 16th June, 1879. Dr. Boswell supposes 
that this plant must be accepted as intermedia, but that it comes very 
near true canina . 
Polygala vulgaris , b. grandiflora , is sent from Ben Bulben, Sligo, 
by Mr. S. A. Stewart, 16th July, 1879. 
Silene eu-gallica (Boswell) = S. gallica, L ., Silene quinquevulnera , 
Z. , and Silene anglico x quinquevulnera. Specimens of these plants are 
forwarded by Mr. J. C. Melvill, with the following note : — “ I 
found S. gallica, L. growing on Gallows Hill, Jersey, near St. Heliers, 
in company with the following varieties : — 
S. eugallica , var. rosea \ These two coalesce occasion- 
's. quinquevulnera, L., var. rosea \ ally on the same plant. 
-S. quinquevulnera , L. 
S. anglico x quinquevidnera. 
S. anglica, L. 
There can be no question that the whole of these are hardly even 
varieties of one protean species. In no respect can they be 
distinguished except by the petals. S. eu-gallica only differs from 
