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have not met with the truly radiate state of C. nigra.” Prof. 
Babington writes that “ Dr. Boswell is correct. This is not the 
decipiens of the S.W. of England.” 
Chrysanthemum inodorum , L. var. b. maritimum , Pers. Mr. 
Bailey sends what he takes to be typical specimens of this variety 
from the sandhills on the shore of Conway Bay, to the south of 
Llandudno, 17th September, 1879. Prof. Babington believes it to be 
Matricaria modora , b. salina . Dr. Boswell writes that “ it is quite 
similar to specimens which were named maritimus by Schultz (Bip.), 
which I sent him by the hands of the late Dr. Seeman.” 
Diotis maritima , Cass. Mr. J. Groves and Mr. Bolton King 
send this from the sea shore near Christchurch, S. Hants, September, 
1879. 
Senecio crassifolins , Willd. (fide Mr. H. C. Watson) non S. 
vernalis Wald. & Kit., nec S. vulgaris hibernica Boult. Root from 
Mr. H. C. Watson’s garden, originally from Cork, Ireland. Mr. A. 
Bennett sends cultivated specimens thus named, respecting which 
Prof. Babington writes : — “ This is the same as I have from Mr. A. 
G. More (1867) and Mr. J. Carroll (1853) from Cork. I have doubts 
about this being S. crassifolins , judging from specimens so named 
from Schultz-Bipont., and Billot 579. Also from the ‘ Unio Itin- 
eraria.’ I am not able to give it a name. It seems to be the same 
as the Cornish plant (Report 1875, P- J 9 )) and so cannot well 
be a hybrid as supposed by Mr. Carroll.” Dr. Boswell says that 
this plant is u S. vernalis W. & K., S. vernalis , var hibernica , 
mihi olim. Afterwards, I suggested the name, S. crassifolins 
to Mr. Watson, to whom I sent a specimen from the seed of 
which he raised the plant. It differs from S. crassifolius in being, 
especially when young, more hairy, in having the leaves dentate 
between the large lobes, the middle ones with much more deeply- 
toothed auricles, and the anthodes smaller with more cylindrical 
involucres, and the pappus caducous. But no doubt S. vernalis and 
S. crassifolius are very closely allied, if, indeed, they be not forms of 
one species.” 
Hypochceris glabra , L. var. b. Balbisii , E.B. Sent by Mr. F. J. 
Hanbury from a rough field near the Chequers, between Deal and 
Sandwich, 24th June, 1878. 
A Taraxacum is sent by Mr. F. J. Hanbury from Hartford 
Heath, 4th May, 1878, which Mr. Baker thinks is Icevigatum. Dr. 
Boswell thinks it is certainly erythrospermum, with which Mr. Briggs 
and Prof. Babington agree. 
Crepis biennis , L. Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill sends a few plants 
from a clover field at Delamere, Cheshire, where it occurred in 1878. 
The following year it was not to be found, the field having been sown 
with wheat. 
Crepis succiscefolia , Tausch. Sent by Mr. Alexander Brother- 
ston from a densely wooded dean at Holydean, near Bowden, 
Roxbugh, 27th August, 1879, and from a wood near Walkerburn, 
Peeblesshire, 13th August, 1879. At Holydean it occurred in 
considerable quantity on the drier parts, while C. paludosa was 
abundant in the wet ground. 
Hieracium Pilosella, L. var. b. pilosissimum , Fries. Sent by 
