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whole, so far as foliage goes, Mr. Ley’s specimens seem to be P. 
rupicola, tending towards P. latifolia , Syme. 
Cratcegus Oxyacantha , L., var. laciniata, Wallr. By Slinfold 
Mill, West Sussex, 7th August, 1891 . — James W. White. “Although 
Wallroth in his ‘ Sch. crit.’ p. 217, heads his 24th genus under 
Cratcegus , and discusses it, still it does not appear in the index, and 
he describes his varieties under Mespilus Oxyacantha , Gaertn. 
Saxifraga Geum , L. Limestone pot-hole near Settle, Yorkshire, 
Vice County 64, 3rd July, 1891. Fresh specimens of this plant were 
sent to Professor Babington last July, and were pronounced by him to 
be A. Geum , L. We found it growing luxuriantly in an out-of-the-way 
“ pot-hole ” on the top of the scars far away from any house. Mr. 
F. J. Hanbury, who visited the spot later with us, thinks it unlikely 
that the plant has been introduced. — R. F. & F. P. Thompson. If 
not purposely introduced it is curious how the plants could have got 
there, for one can hardly believe them native in Yorkshire. 
A. hirsuta , L., teste C. C. Babington. Pot-hole on the side of 
Ingleboro’, Yorkshire, Vice County 64, 14th July, 1891. — R. F. & 
F. P. Thompson. 
S. sponhemica , Gmel. Limestone rocks, Black Head, County 
Clare, Ireland, 21st June, 1891. Mr. Baker, to whom specimens of 
tihs saxifrage were sent for the Kew Herbarium, considers it the 
A. sponhemica , Gmel., but in the ‘Cybele Hibernica’ it is included under 
A. hypnoides, L. — H. C. Levinge. 
Epilobium angustifolium , L., var. Swanbister garden, from a root 
taken from Naversdale, Orphir, Orkney, 15th August, 1889. — W. Irvine 
Fortescue. “ Forma b r achy carp a. ” — E. S. Marshall. 
E. montanum , L. x ? Haugh Wood, Herefordshire, 3rd October, 
1891 . — Augustin Ley. “E. montanum x obscurum .” — E. S. Marshall. 
E. Marshallianum , Haussk. ined. = an agallidi folium x obscurum. 
Ben More, Sutherland, 12th July, 1890. — F. J. Hanbury. I suppose 
there is no hope of any protest being made against this naming of 
hybrids. What Herbert (quoted by Focke ‘ Mischlinge,’ p. 492) says 
about cultivated hybrids applies (it seems to me) equally to natural 
hybrids. “ The system of giving a Latin specific name to every cross- 
bred seedling, which prevails among cultivators, and has been 
unfortunately sanctioned to a certain degree by M. de Candolle .... 
is very objectionable.” 
Circcea alpina , L., var. Aberuchill, Comrie, Perthshire, August, 
1891. — J. Cosmo Melvill. 
C. alpina , L. b. intermedia. Aberuchill, Comrie, Perthshire, 5th 
August, 1891. — J. Cosmo Melvill. According to Meyer, ‘Ch. 
Hann.’ p. 100, Ehrhart included two plants under his intermedia, one 
“Ehrh. herbarium !” which Meyer places under lutetiana as C. alpino- 
lutetiana, and another “ Ehrh. Herb. exs. No. 10 1 ” under alpina as 
C. lutetiana-alpina , and he refers the English Botany t. 1057 to C. 
lutetiana , L. var. cordifolia, Meyer. The fruit and dissections on that 
plate must refer to alpina , and not lutetiana. I should say that Mr. 
Melvill’s alpina b. intermedia , are certainly better placed under 
lutetiana than as var. intermedia. The true intermedia , as I have it 
