338 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Arctium tomentosum , Schk. Near Bodorgan Station, Anglesey, 
October, 1891. — J. E. Griffith. The heads are densely tomentose, 
but it is not the true tomentosum , which is well distinguished from the 
other species by the inner phyllaries, which are purple toward the apex, 
obtuse and then pointed. The corolla has a large glandular swelling 
in the upper part and its base dilated, and the mode of inflorescence is 
different in character from our other species. I think Mr. Griffith’s 
plant will come under A. intermedium , Lange, and may be called var. 
sub tomentosum. 
Carduus acanthoides , L. ? Meadow, Horseheath, Cambridge- 
shire, 1 8th September, 1891. Several forms of C. crispus, L., were 
growing together at this station, of which I selected two for sending 
to the club. On the present one I made at the time of gathering the 
following note : — “ Heads arachnoid; buds with adpressed phyllaries, 
sometimes (the phyllaries) recurved, and heads larger than in the 
other forms of C. crispus.” — Augustin Ley. I can get no decided 
opinion on Mr. Ley’s plants. Our authors differ as to C. 
acanthoides, L. 
Crepis biennis , L. Near Elsfield, Oxon, June, 1891. A colonist. 
This plant was discovered in 1890 by Sister Jane Francis in a field 
recently sown with rye grass. It appeared this year in considerable 
quantity. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Hieracium sp. Cult. fr. E. Coast of Caithness, 29th June, 1891. — 
W. R. Linton. On this, Mr. Hanbury can express no opinion. 
H. buglossoides, Arv.-T. Cultivated from root from Isle of 
Skye, 3rd July, 1891 ; Braemar, South Aberdeenshire, 25th July, 1891 ; 
Glen Lyon, Perth, 1st August, 1891. — W. R. Linton. “I do not 
possess a type specimen of Arvet-Touvet’s plant, but the Braemar 
specimens bear little resemblance to the buglossoides , Arv.-T., as 
represented in the 1 Flora selecta exsiccata publie par Ch. Magnier,’ 
kindly lent me, with many other European Hieracia , by Mr. Charles 
Bailey. The Braemar plant, which occurs in several localities, is a 
striking form but unsatisfactory in that it seldom or never develops 
its ligules properly, they remain green and curled up. One would 
hardly expect agreement between a Braemar hawkweed and one 
collected in the Alpes Maritimes, and as Arvet-Touvet gives his 
plant as (?) sub-species of H. onosmoides , Fr., I should be content to 
let the Braemar plant remain as a form of that species as suggested 
by Dr. Lindeberg who writes 1 H. onosmoides, verum v. paucifolium ,’ 
especially as a fine and typical form of that species is abundant at 
Tain in East Rossshire, which is not a great way from Braemar. 
These remarks apply equally to Mr. Linton’s Skye specimens.” — 
F. J. Hanbury. 
H. lasiophyllum, Koch. Top of an old limestone wall at Tutshill, 
on the West Gloucestershire side of the Wye near Chepstow, 
8th June, 1891. I first gathered it at this station in 1890, and the 
Rev. A. Ley has since visited the locality with me. Mr. Hanbury has 
seen both fresh and dried specimens, and he says he believes it will 
prove to be H. lasiophyllum, Koch. Up to the present I have failed 
to detect it growing on any of the limestone cliffs or quarries in the 
