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quite untenable. An examination of the district readily leads one to 
understand how it is that this species has remained so long unobserved. 
The coppices being cut only at intervals of from 15 to 20 years, it 
would be a matter of rare chance if they were explored by botanists 
at a time when an unobtrusive plant could attract notice. Ploughed 
land extends to the wood borders, where there are no paths ; and, 
oddly enough, if the Stachys grows near a road or track it is nearly 
always on the far side of a hedge.” — J. W. W. A most welcome 
contribution. If all the members would take as much trouble in 
selecting and drying their specimens as Mr. White does the Club 
would be far more useful than it is. — J. G. 
Stachys an?iua, L. ? Ballast, Garston, S. Lancashire, 3rd October 
1898. — S. Gasking. Yes, but very badly dried. — J. G. 
Plant ago Coronopus, L. Sandy waste ground, St. Aubin’s Bay, 
Jersey, 21st May 1898. — L. V. Lester. ‘‘I send a few sheets of a 
remarkable form or monstrosity of this plant. The inflorescence forms 
a compact, much-branched panicle instead of the usual spike. There 
were several plants, all close together. I once found in Dorsetshire a 
form of P. major, L., which had a very similar inflorescence. It was 
sent to Kew, I believe, and elicited the information that it was a 
known form and had been figured somewhere, but unfortunately I 
have not got the letter.” — L. V. L. 
P. Coronopus, L., var. ceratophyllum, Hoffm. and Link. Near 
Blackpool, W. Lane., 7th July 1898 (vide ‘ Journ. of Bot.,’ 1898, p. 
321) — J. A. Wheldon. Confirmed by Mr. E. G. Baker. 
P. Coronopus, L., var. Sandy coast, Cladach, Kirkibost, N. Uist, 
vice-county no, 14th July 1898. — W, A. Shoolbred. Mr. E. G. 
Baker labels one of the specimens submitted to him var. maritima, 
Gren. and Godr., and the other “ about half-way between var. 
maritima, Gren. and Godr., and v2x. pygmcea, Lange.” 
P. arenaria, Waldst. and Kit. Ballast, Garston, S. Lane. — 
S. Gasking. 
Chenopodium polysperniu 7 n, L., var. cyniosum, Moq. Garden weed, 
Leicester, September 1898. — F. T. Mott. “I send these specimens, 
which are all portions of one large plant, because, although the two 
forms, spicatum and cymosimi, may be connected by intermediates, the 
extremes are very distinct, and cymosum appears to be the rarer of the 
two. Of five local floras before me, one records only ‘ A. spicatum.^ 
Another gives many localities for spicatiun and only one for cymosum. 
A third includes them both, but does not distinguish the localities. 
The other two ignore these varieties altogether, as does also the 
‘ Student’s Flora.’ In this county (Leicestershire) both occur, but 
cymosum is rare.” — F. T. M. 
C. opulifolium, Schrad. On waste ground near Preston, W. 
Lancashire, August 1898. — J. A. Wheldon. 
