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Lotus angustisswi 7 is, L., var. Seringiamis, Bab., ‘ FI. Sarn,’ p. 28 
(1^39)- Grand Val, Jersey, 27th June 1901. The specimens sent (I 
am afraid that they are very few) seem to answer to Babington’s 
description ; “Pedunculo semper folium subsequente, foliolis obovato- 
oblongis stipulisque ovatis acutis, caulibus ascendentibus — L. angus- 
tisswius, Ser., in DC. Prodr.” Whether such a form deserves a 
varietal name is a matter of opinion. — L. V. Lester. 
Viaa viltosa, Roth. Alien. Bank of the Wyre, near Fleetwood 
Docks, West Lancashire (60), July 1902. I first found this plant in 
this locality in 1901 {vide ‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1901., p. 24), but had 
previously met with it in South Lancashire, near Aintree, and in 
Cheshire, near Birkenhead. Of specimens submitted to Mr. Bennett, 
he said : “Yes, the true plant of Roth, and not the more common 
glabrescent form.” — J. A. Wheldon. 
V. villosa^ Roth. Sandhills opposite St. Thomas’s Church, St. 
Anne’s-on-the-Sea, West Lancashire, 6th and 20th September 1902. 
See remarks under Ambrosia artemisicefolia, L., on page 46 of this 
‘ Report.’ This is one of several aliens occurring at this station, but 
in limited quantity, only three or four flowering examples being met 
with. I take the plant to be V. viliosa, Roth, probably Koch’s variety 
glahresce?is of that species, = V. dasycarpa, Ten. It is allied to V. 
Cracea, L., but with fewer flowers in the spike, all open about the same 
time, but more separated from each other and much less pendant. 
The accompanying Plate III., lent by the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, is photographed from a herbarium specimen 
two and a half times larger than the plate. In the examples sent to 
the Club the flower spikes have assumed a dark royal blue colour, but 
in their living state on the sandhills they are of a rich claret colour, 
unlike that of any of our native vetches. The flower spikes do not 
show up very well on the plate compared with their appearance on the 
herbarium sheet to which they are affixed, but they may be identified 
from the leaves by their much longer stalks and by the absence of the 
prehensile tendrils which are so characteristic of the upper part of the 
leaves. The handsome flowers are gathered almost as soon as they 
are produced, as the locality is a favourite resort for children; certainly 
none of the flowers reached the fruiting stage in 1902. In the wind- 
storms of the early spring of 1903 the drifting sand covered the 
station to a depth of a foot or a foot and a half, and the species was 
not observed during 1903. — Charles Bailey. 
F. lathyroides, Linn. On the sea-embankment at Fairhaven, near 
St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, West Lancashire, 24th May 1902. Not 
recorded for vice-county 60 in ‘Top. Bot.,’ p. 122. — Charles Bailey. 
‘See ‘Journal of Botany,’ 1900, p. 43.” — Ed. 
Rtihus plicatus, & N., var. Bertramii, G. Braun. Stony 
ground and open woods at Llanwrtyd, Breconshire, 22nd July 1902 
This form is more common than the type in South and Central Wales, 
