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district, but feel little doubt that on further search it will be found on 
some of them. While searching for it this year I have come across 
H. stenolepis , Lindeb., and H. Gibsoni, Backh., both in small quantities, 
growing on the limestone cliffs above the tidal part of the Wye on the 
West Gloucestershire side. — W. A. Shoolbred. “ H. Schmidtii , f. 
Tausch.” — F. J. Hanbury. 
Hieracium Gibsoni , Backh. In an old quarry on the West 
Gloucestershire side of the Wye, near Chepstow. I send this as a 
new County record, having gathered it for the first time in the 
district this year. Its occurrence on the mountain limestone so near 
the mouth of the Wye is interesting, and is a great extension of the 
range of the plant southwards. It was rather late in the season when 
I discovered it, and though there were numerous flowerless seedlings 
I could not find more than seven or eight flowering plants in fit 
condition for drying. — W. A. Shoolbred. This plant should bear 
Samuel Gibson’s name of H. hypochceroidcs , 1 Phyt.,’ vol. i., p. 907 
(1844). 
H. ccBsium , Fr., form ? Gt. Orme’s Head, North Wales, July, 
1891.— J. E. Griffith. Passed without the ? being scored through 
by Mr. Hanbury. 
H. ccesium , Fr. form. Near the old Copper mines, Llandudno, N. 
Wales, July, 1891. — J. E. Griffith. Same remark as last. 
H. ccesium , Fr. v., alpestre. Killin, Perth, 28th July, 1891 ; 
and 25th July, 1891, same locality. — W. R. Linton. 
H. caledonicum , F. J. Hanb. Bettyhill, Sutherland, Scotland, 
30th July, 1888. — W. R. Linton. “The wild specimen is a form of 
H. Schmidtii , Tausch, which grows in profusion at Bettyhill. The 
cultivated specimen is probably correct ; both species grow in this 
locality.” — F. J. Hanbury. 
H. zetlandicum , Beeby. Above Sand Voe, nth August, 1891, 
and low hills at North Roe, 30th July, 1891; both stations in 
Northmaven, Shetland. I send a good supply of this species from 
the only two localities known for it. — W. H. Beeby. 
H. vulgatum , Fr. form. Near Betuesda, Carnarvonshire, 9th July, 
1891. — J. E. Griffith. 
H. diaphanum , Fr. Longridge, West Lancaster, 14th July, 1891. 
I send some specimens gathered from the spot where years ago I found 
excellent H. diaphanum , Fr. ; they are not, however, well matured, and 
exhibit an amount of floccose down on the phyllaries which is 
characteristic of H. vulgatum , rather than H diaphanum , Fr. My 
1874 gathering was made three weeks later in a very hot and forward 
season. This floccose down is often of a very deciduous character, 
especially in a wet climate or summer ; and this feature must be taken 
into account in determining whether our Lancashire H. diaphanum is 
the plant of Fries, or one still nearer allied to H. vulgatum. — E. F. 
Linton. “Though the foliage of Mr. Linton’s plant resembles that 
of //. diaphanum , Fr., the phyllaries are entirely different from those 
of that species. In H. diaphanum , the phyllaries are broad, blunt, 
dark blackish green, and comparatively glabrous, whilst in this plant 
they are narrow, tapering to a fine point, densely floccose, and with very 
