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fordshire Flora,’ p. 33, for that county. Leighton gave the name 
originally to the white flowered plant, ‘ FL of Shropshire,’ p. 116. — 
W. R. L. 
Vw/a sylvatica, Fr. Rwiniana, Reich., forma cuprea, Druce, in litt. 
The Yews, Odiham, N. Hants, 14th May, 1894. This violet came up 
in my garden, with some plants that Mr. Bolton King brought me 
from Brandon, co. Kerry, in the year 1881, and has since become a 
wild weed all over the garden. It entirely keeps the original character, 
the leaves quite a dark, almost black, colour, which does not sufficiently 
show itself in drying. The seedlings are almost blacker than the 
original and never fail in the colour. Mr. King does not remember 
noticing it in Ireland, but I cannot account for its appearance in any 
other way. I should be pleased to send a plant to any member of 
the Botanical Exchange Club, who would like to see it, in a fresh state, 
or to grow it. — Charlotte E. Palmer. “These dried specimens from 
Miss Palmer’s garden do not show the characters very well as they are 
shade-grown plants. When growing in an exposed situation the 
leaves are quite copper-coloured, and the foliage has rather a raspberry- 
like odour. I saw Mr. King’s original speciemn in 1881, and the 
plants have retained their character up to the present time, 1895.” — 
G. C. Druce. V. Riviniana is a different species from V, sylvaiica 
{ = R. silvesRis, Reich.) — W. R. L. 
V. . Open sandy copse, near Sandling Park, E. Kent, 
2nd Aug., 1894. Apparently perennial, stems usually very many, 
ascending from a decumbent base, the central one sub-erect. Flowers 
large and handsome. I have carefully compared samples of this 
gathering with the specimens of the Melanium section in the general 
herbarium of the British Museum. Although not identical, they 
appear to be much nearer to the specimens of F. rothomagensis^ Desf. 
than to anything else represented there. The main differences 
observable are the greater luxuriance of my plant and its comparative 
glabrescence, which might, however, be due to a difference of soil and 
a greater amount of moisture. I can find no appreciable divergence 
in the shape of the seeds from those of a cultivated plant of 
roihomagensis from the Rouen neighbourhood, among the specimens 
at S. Kensington ; there is also a marked resemblance in the leaves, 
stipules, and inflorescence. It seems to be well off our ordinary forms 
of V. tricolor, L. — Edward S. Marshall. 
Silene dichotorna, Ehr. Shore of Cropstone Reservoir, Leicester- 
shire, July, 1894. The very dry summer of 1893, followed by a 
similar drought in 1894, reduced the water in the Leicester reservoirs 
to a very low level, and left wide margins of exposed soil on which a 
varied crop of vegetation sprang up. Amongst it were several interest- 
ing casuals. At the Cropstone Reservoir there was one fine large 
root of Silene dic/iotofna, with flowering stems between two and three 
feet high. This plant is unrecorded for the county, but Mr. Druce 
says in the ‘Report’ for 1892 that “it is a not unfrequent casual.” 
Probably in this case the seed had been brought from eastern Europe 
