4l6 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
deserve further study.” The plant sent up is frequent on and near the 
coast of Hants and Dorset. It occurs with D. Carota, and is at 
once distinguished from it by its umbels being convex in mature fruit, 
whilst it differs from D. gummifer by its umbels not being convex till 
the fruit is more or less mature. Smith’s ‘Engl. Flora/ ii. , p. 40, 
describes the umbels of D. gummifer as being “at all times convex, 
never concave.” It agrees with D. Carota in the length, flattening, 
and basal subconnation, of the fruit spines, but with D. gummifer in 
the spines being tipped with only one bristle. That D. Carota is its 
starting-point or head-quarters is shown by its growing with D. Carota, 
and not with D. gummifer , and by its having the habit of D. Carota. 
It is thus a Carota form or variety which has acquired certain features 
of D. gummifer. Boissier, in his ‘Flora Orientalis/ classifies the section 
of Daucus , which possesses an involucrate umbel in ( + ) species 
with contracted umbel, ( + + ) species with convex umbel. This classifi- 
cation would bring our plant under D. gummifer, which would be 
incorrect, in view of the remarks made above. I am indebted to Mr. 
C. Bailey for kindly lending me his excellent series of British and 
Foreign Daucus, which was of material assistance in drawing up the 
above note. — Wm. R. Linton. 
Lo 7 iicera Caprifolium , L. Cherryhinton, Cambs, 3rd May, 1893. 
Coll. G. Goode. Comm. J. H. A. Steuart. 
Galium . Field on cliff between Shanklin and Sandown, 
Isle of Wight, 26th May, 1893. A specimen of Galium from this 
locality which I sent to Mr. J. G. Baker in 1886, he considered 
was a hybrid between G. Mollugo and G. verum. The flowers, when 
fresh, had a decided shade of yellow. Both G. Mollugo and G. verum 
were growing in the neighbourhood in theirordinarystate. — Charlotte 
F. Palmer. “ G. erectum, Huds.” — F. Townsend. 
G. Mollugo, L., var. insubricum, Gaud., fide A. Bennett. Howth, 
Co. Dublin, 24th June, 1892. — H. C. Levinge. 
G. saxatile, L. var. alpeslre, Meyer. Ystolion Duon, August, 
1893. — J. E. Griffith. “I have not seen Meyer’s plant, but it is 
probably correct.” — A. Bennett. 
Valerianella rimosa, Bast. Sandy cornfield, this year sown with 
clover, near Headington Wick, Oxon, May, 1893. When I compiled 
the ‘ Flora of Oxford,’ a solitary specimen had alone been noticed in the 
county since 1885. I have seen it in two or three localities; in the 
one above mentioned, it was in some plenty. — G. Claridge Druce. 
V. dentata, Pollich, var. mixta , Dufr. Sandy cornfields, near 
Headington Wick, Oxon, May, 1893. The specimens, some of 
which were unusually luxuriant, occurred with V. rimosa and with 
typical V. dentata . — G. Claridge Druce. 
Solidago Virga-aurea, L. forma. Roadside, Fazakerley, Lancs., 
Sept., 1892. Sent because differing slightly from the specimens 
distributed by Mr. Mott in 1891 and 1892. — J. A. Wheldon. 
Aster lotigifolius , Lam., A. salignus , Bab. (an Willd. ?) Banks of 
the Tay, below Perth, September, 1869. — J. Boswell Syme. Comm. 
F. J. Hanbury. 
