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some specimens forwarded to the Club were said to be “ typical 
officinal e was an obvious error. The distinctive characters 
are : — corolla inflated, pure bright blue and white ; leaves broad, 
abruptly narrowed below, and only slightly decurrent ; stem bearing 
merely raised lines instead of prominent wings. The plant attains a 
height of from four to five feet on the dry border of a field. It agrees 
well with Curtis’ figure of S. asperrhmi^n.- — Jas. W. White. “ Not 
N. asperrimum, which has a small calyx with shorter and more obtuse 
segments, and stiffer prickle-like hairs. Probably a form of the 
variable half naturalized plant which has been referred to S. percgrimim, 
Ledeb., but some doubt attaches to this name.” — H. and J. Groves. 
Myosotis ccBspitosa, Schultz. Ditch on the road from Speybridge 
to Congash, Grantown-on-Spey, Easterness, 26th July, 1895. Not 
recorded in ‘Topographical Botany’ for vice-county 96. — Cfiarles 
Bailey. 
Scrophularia aguatica, 1 j. var. cmerea, Dum. Shore of Loch 
Deveragh, at Donore, Co. Westmeath, 13th Sept., 1895. — H. C. 
Levinge. “Yes; but is it not the common form all over Britain? 
I have never seen the other.”— W. H. B. 
Rhinanthus Crista-galii, L., fallax, Wimm. & Grab. Bog of 
Lynn, near Mullingar, 22nd July, 1895. New to Dist. vii., ‘ Cyb. 
Hibern.’ Leg. E. S. Marshall.— H. C. Levinge. L. Owel, Co. 
Westmeath, 20th July, 1895. — Linton. Mr. Ar. Bennett 
remarks on both of these, “ I think correct.” 
Melampyrum pratense^ L. var., ericetoriim, D. Oliver. Wybunbury 
Moss, Cheshire, 30th July, 1895. — Named from book descriptions ; I 
have not seen a type specimen. Plant of a beautiful red-brown when 
fresh, hispid ; corolla-tube whitish. A very marked variety, occurring 
here in great abundance ; no other form was seen.^ — Edward S 
Marshall. “ PTom the dried specimens we cannot see any reason 
for separating this from var. montaminiP — H. & J. Groves. 
Mentha longifolia, var. nemorosa. This plant was growing in 
abundance, spreading by its creeping root all over one end of an old 
orchard at the back of a small farmhouse near Woodhouse Eaves, 
Leicestershire, August, 1895. species is rare in this county, 
and the var. nemorosa has not hitherto been recorded here. In 
a small garden, 30 yards distant, was growing AI. viridis, but no 
other mint. The leaves when fresh were distinctly rugose, like those 
of rotundifolia^ of which species I supposed it at first to be a variety. — 
F. T. Mott. “ I suppose correct, according to our text-books ; but I 
hardly think Strail would so name it.” — Ar. Bennett. “ I should not 
have thought that this plant quite accorded with any of our recognised 
varieties. Probably it is a descendant of the garden AI. referred 
to. On this point the late M. Lloyd records (‘ F. de I’Ouest,’ ed. iv. 
p. 265) having raised M. silvestris from seeds of Al. viridis, and adds, 
‘ F urther, with seeds of AP. silvestris I have obtained typical glabrous 
M. viridisl — W. H. Beeby.” 
