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Hieracium rigiduni, Hartm., variety tridentatum, Fr. Hedge bank, 
Pembridge, Herefordshire, 15th August 1902. Sent after comparison 
with the typical plant from Stockholm garden in Mr. Hanbury’s 
herbarium, with which the present plant seems a very good match. — 
Augustin Ley. 
H. rigidum, Hart.,var. nidense, F. J. H. Origin, Hepote Glen, South 
Breconshire (the station from which the plant was described); garden, 
30th July 1902. This form seems to be confined, as a wild plant, 
to riverside rocks, and loses a great deal of its beauty in the garden, 
but keeps quite distinct from other varieties. — Augustin Ley. 
H. cantianum^ F. J. Hanb. Aberdare, county 41, July 1902.— 
H. J. Riddelsdell. “ This resembles H. cantianum in the general 
character of the leaves, which, however, are fewer than in the Kent 
■and Surrey specimens. The peduncles, too, bear numerous setse, 
which are absent, or nearly so, in the type. Is not this plant a 
vulgatum rather than a rigidmn form?” — F. J. Hanbury. 
H. melanocephalum, Lindeb. (Exsiccata No. 137). I append notes 
and description kindly furnished by the Rev. Augustin Ley. “Herba 
humiliori, capitulis nigricantibus amplioribus, squamis magis imbri- 
catis, latioribus, minusque attenuatis, nudis et creberrime glandulosis, 
a proximo H. rigido Hart, est diversum (Lindeb.).” Mr. Ley writes 
that the form “ is, as far as I know, unrecorded in Britain. This is 
a plant which last year I had confounded with H. amphiboliim^ but it 
is easily distinguished from that plant by the more leafy rigidum-like 
stem, and the numerous longish setie on the involucre.” Mr. Ley 
refers to H. melanocephalum^ Lindeb., plants from Goathland, vice- 
county 62 ; Upper Teesdale, vice-county 66 ; Aberdare, county 41 ; 
Defynog and Callwen, county 42. They differ widely in facies from 
one another, but all show their near relationship to H. rigidujn, Hartm. 
The Aberdare and Defynog plants are queried by Mr. Ley ; some of 
those from Aberdare are sent for comparison. — H. J. Riddelsdell. 
“In view of Tausch’s melanocephalum how can this name be admitted?” 
—Ed. 
H. protractum, Fr. Origin, Upper Tawe, Breconshire, on stream- 
side rocks ; garden, 30th July 1902. This plant was sent to the 
Club unnamed in 1900 from the same station (see ‘Report’ for that 
year, p. 639). The name now given to it was suggested by the Rev. 
E. F. Linton in the present year, and is, I believe, undoubtedly right. 
New record for England ? — Augustin Ley. 
H. strictuin, Er., var. opsianthwn, Dahl. Origin, Elan Valley, 
Radnor; garden, 30th July 1902. The name was suggested to me 
two years ago by Rev. E. F. Linton. — Augustin Ley. 
H. corymbosum, Fr. Origin, Elan Valley, Radnor ; garden, 30th 
July 1902. I believe this to be the typical plant. The var. salicifolium, 
Lindeb., is the prevailing plant in South Wales. (Not seen by E. F. L. 
