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near Newbury. I did not see it in gardens. Can it have been 
introduced with seeds of Austrian clover ?— G. Claridge Druce. 
Atriplex deltoidea , Bab. form. This grew with Lepigonum medium , 
Apium graveolens, and Carcx distorts, at Marcham, Berkshire, August, 
1891. It was more mealy than usual, and more prostrate in habit. 
I do not know Babington’s variety prostrata. — G. Claridge Druce. 
About half-way between typical deltoidea and the thick-leaved prostrate 
maritime form. 
Polygonum dumetorum, L. Appleton, Berkshire, September, 1891. 
— G. C. Druce. Whitsbury, South Wilts, 31st August, 1891. — E. F. 
Linton. Two additional County records. 
Polygonum minori-Persicaria. Wet meadow ditch, Wareham, 
Dorset, 15th September, 1891. This plant was found by me first 
two years ago, and gathered as a large form of P. minus. Mr. 
A. Bennett found that it agreed with specimens named P. minori- 
Persicaria in Dr. Winslow’s collection ; and as it shows a leaf- 
texture and upright habit which may have well come from a P. 
Persicaria source. I have adopted this name for the plant ; but the 
fruit seems to me to be pure minus , and there is no sign whatever of 
sterility. — E. F. Linton. But on again examining it I believe it is 
P. minus, Huds., var. datum, Marsson, ‘FI. Neu-Vorpommern,’ 
&c., p. 406, 1869 ; which may be the same as var. longifolium, 
and var. strictum , Braun, ‘Bot. Zeit.,’ 1824. Since writing as above, 
I hear from Mr. Linton that he has tested this plant by raising it 
from seed, and that he finds it to be P. minus, pure and simple. 
Rumex acutus , L. Corston, North Somerset, July, 1891. Contrary 
to the experience of some botanists who find little or no fruit upon the 
plant, acutus in Somerset ripens abundance of nuts. These are 
appreciably larger than those of obtusifolius. — James W. White. In 
the British specimens I have seen of this plant they seemed to be 
nearer crispus (so far as the leaves were concerned), but Mr. White’s 
specimens in this are more towards obtusifolius ; in this closely 
resembling Swedish specimens I have, sent by M. Nilsson, and labelled 
R. crispus x obtusifolius = R. acutus, L. ! = R. pratensis, M. et K.! 
R. crispus x obtusifolius (? R. acutus, L.). Edlaston Coppy, 
Derbyshire, 8th August, 1891. A few plants of this hybrid grew side 
by side with other plants of both parents. The specimens sent were not 
all off one plant, but from four or five different roots : it is likely 
therefore that they will not be identical with one another, but all are 
fairly intermediate.— E. F. Linton. Also sent by Rev. W. R. Linton 
from same place. These specimens are destitute of root leaves, and 
the fruiting-petals are too young to show decided characters. The 
denticulation of the enlarged petals is not more than sometimes occurs 
in R. crispus, L.,and though it is unsafe to name unripe Rumices, I should 
have been inclined to call these R. crispus, L., var. subcordatus , Warren. 
Euphorbia coralloides , L. ? Cultivated under this name at University 
College, Clifton, 2nd August, 1891. — James W. White. This is 
certainly not the plant of the ‘Sp. Plant’ ed. 1, p. 460, 1753. Mr. 
White’s specimens give one the idea of an annual plant, while pilosa 
and, probably, coralloides are perennial. 
