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1879, with the following remarks : — “Mr. Baker supposes this to be a 
garden hybrid, between S. asperrimum and S. officinale , between 
which it is intermediate, though much nearer S. asperrimum in 
everything except the shape of the limb of the corolla, which is that 
of S. officinale ; it is no doubt from this that Prof. Babington thinks 
it may be a luxuriant form of S. officinale. It is quite as tall and 
robust as S. asperrimum (or even more so), and young plants of it 
come up like weeds in the garden. The calyx is but little more 
deeply divided than that of S. asperrimum , though the divisions are 
more acute. In both plants they elongate after flowering. The 
bristles on the stem are less like prickles, but the so-called white 
tubercles, on which they are seated, become apparent only when dry, 
and are smaller than in S. asperrimum , in which they are equally 
green while the plant is alive. It seems to agree better with De 
Candolle’s description of S. Donii than with his, or Ledebour’s 
description of S. peregrinum, as the stem leaves, especially the upper 
ones, are shortly decurrent.” 
Sy 7 iiphytum Tauricum, Willd., and Lamium maculatum , L. 
Established in enclosed ground between Warwick and Leamington, 
Warwickshire, 4th June, 1879. Sent by Mr. C. Bailey, the station 
being pointed out to him by Dr. Baker and Mr. Bromwich. 
Linaria purpurea. Sub-spontaneous on an old garden wall, 
Bishop’s Oak, Wolsingham, South Durham. Mr. J. P. Soutter. 
Rumex scutatus. Cottage Garden Wall, Maidstone, E. Kent, 
3rd August, 1879. Sent by Mr. W. H. Beeby. 
Calceolaria glutinosa , Heer and Regel. Sent by Rev. E. F. 
Linton “as an annual coming up of itself each year in a garden at 
Heigham, near Norwich, October, 1879.” 
Briza maxima , L., Jersey, June, 1879. Sent by Mr. J. Cosmo 
Melvill with the following note: — “This conspicuous grass, a 
native, especially, of the South o'f France and Italy, is rapidly 
extending itself in all parts of Jersey. The late Dr. M. M. Bull 
informed me in June, that several years had elapsed since he first 
noticed it in the island, but I am not aware that, till now, public 
notice has been taken of it. I found it most abundant at La Haule, 
near the station for the now almost extinct Ranunculus clmrophyllos, 
and also at Plemont, North Jersey, and in St. Saviour’s Parish. It 
has not yet been noticed in Guernsey or Sark.” Prof. Babington 
remarks that “the Rev. A. M. Norman mentions this plant as seen in 
the Channel Islands, in 1859, Phytol, Ser. 2, iii, 304. He gives no 
locality nor particulars.” 
Poa serotina , Ehrt., with more branches on lower parts of panicle 
than usual. Naturalized on the bank of the Thames, Kew, Surrey, 
30th June, 1879. Sent by Mr. George Nicholson with the 
following note : — “ There was a considerable quantity of this species 
on banks of Thames at Kew and Mortlake last year, and there seems 
every probability of its retaining its hold. As a species it comes 
very near P. nemoralis , L. Considering that it is a native of many 
countries of continental Europe, and that it is also found in North 
America, it does not seem improbable that it may occur in a wild 
state in Britain.” 
JAMES COLLINS AND CO., PRINTERS, KING STREET, MANCHESTER. 
