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Caltha radicans^ Forst. Shore of Loch Alvie, E. Inverness, 6th 
August 1898. — W. A. Shoolbred. “This is very close to the 
original form of the plant.” — W. H. Beeby. “ From the locality, you 
should be right, but the circumference of the leaves is not acutely 
dentate, and therefore it is C, palustris, L., 7 pj'ocumbens, Beck, apud 
Huth, ‘ Monogr. Caltha^ p. 18!” — J. Freyn. “This L. Alvie plant 
is exactly C. radicans, var. zetlandica, Beeby, sp. in ‘ Herb. Brit. 
Mus.’ I think that procumbens, Beck, is the same, but that it is best 
put under C. radicans if this subspecies is kept up.” — E. S. Marshall. 
“ This is similar to the plant I collected on the south shore of Loch 
Morlich in the same vice-county. I visited the Forfarshire station near 
Rescobie this year, and found the marsh nearly dry and much more 
overgrown with trees, and this dry season I was unable to find a single 
specimen rooting at the nodes. I have yet to learn that the plant of 
Don had the radical leaves deltoid triangular. Perhaps this query 
may be answered by some member.” — G. C. Druce. 
Papaver dubium, L., var. collinum (Bogenh.). Bullingdon, Oxon, 
July 1898; named by Herr J. Freyn.— G. C. Druce. I have not 
seen Bogenhard’s description of P. collinum, but according to Boreau 
(‘ FI. Cent.’) the principal differences between that plant and P. 
Lamottei are that in the former the capsule tapers from the centre to 
the base, the margin of the disk is but slightly lobed, and the seeds 
are brownish, while in the latter the capsule tapers from summit to 
base, the disk is crenellated, and the seeds are greyish-glaucous. — 
J. G. 
Fumaria parviflora, Lam. In great quantity in chalk fields near 
Prince’s Risborough, Bucks, July 1898. — G. C. Druce. 
Arabic hirsuta, Scop., form. Ingleborough, Mid-West Yorks, 
27th July 1897. — J. A. Wheldon. “I suppose this cannot be A. 
longisiliqua, Wallr., ‘Sched. Crit.’?” — Ar. Bennett. 
A. . Coast sandhills, Balranald and Newton, N. Uist, vice- 
county no, July 1898. — W. A. Shoolbred. “Most probably only a 
form of A. hirsuta, Scop., though it appears to agree well with specimens 
of A. ciliata, R. Br., in ‘Herb. Brit. Mus.,’ except in the hairiness of the 
leaves. The plants grow in great abundance on the sandhills in one 
or two places on the north and west coast of N. Uist.” — W. A. S. 
“Not QysnoXXq hirsuta nor the Irish ciliata, but seems to come between 
the tvvo.” — Ar. Bennett. “ A. hirsuta. Scop., var., agrees with var. 
propinqua (Jord.), Rouy; but this is an alpine plant.” — J. Freyn. “I 
strongly suspect to be Syme’s var. hispida of A. ciliata, itself hardly 
more than a subspecies.” — hv S. Marshall. “^4. hirsuta, form, agreeing 
well with specimens from sandhills on the coast of Finistere, sent me 
under the name of ''A. rubricaulis, Jord., ’and from the Crymlyn Burrows, 
Glamorgan, and from rocks, Skye. These specimens, however, do not in 
the least agree witli the description given in MM. Rouy and Foucaud’s 
‘FI. de France’ under the synonym of <y glast if olia, Rch., vol i, 217 ; 
