58 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
than the parents and every step was practically complete. Since that 
date L. repens itself has given way to the competition of native species, 
as the chalk has gradually been covered with other soil, and the 
hybrids are fewer. This year they still exist, but the prevailing plant 
might be described Z. vulgaris x repens, and this is not surprising, 
because Z. vulgaris itself is now more frequent than repens. — G. 
Claridge Druce. 
Limosella tenuifolia, Hook. fil. Kenfig Pool, Glamorgan, vice- 
county 41. I send a further supply of this, partly of last year’s May 
and June gatherings, and partly of a gathering made in August this year. 
This season the water in the pool was very low, and the specimens 
were gathered on the recently dried-up mud, and are somewhat larger 
than last year’s. The foliage and fruit characters remain the same, but 
many more plants were found with “runners.” — W. A. Shoolbred. 
Veronica hybrida, Linn. Sea cliff, Humphrey Head, Lake Lan- 
cashire, vice-county 6g, on scar limestone, altitude 20 feet, July 1902. 
Long known in this locality, and still abundant on some parts of the 
cliff. Alropa Belladonna, Crithmum maritinmm, and Hypochoeris macu- 
lata grow near it or with it. The latter is generally quite out of reach 
on the high vertical rocks, and is therefore not likely to become extinct. 
— Albert Wilson. “See ‘Naturalist,’ pp. 369-372, 1902.” — Ed. 
Euphrasia curta, var. glabrescens, Wetts. Yeldersley Lane, near 
Shirley, Derbyshire, 20th September 1902. — W. R. Linton. “1 should 
call it E, nemorosa, H. Mart. I have seen very similar plants called 
E. curta, var. glabrescens, by Continental botanists.” — F. Townsend. 
E. curta, var. glabrescens, Wetts. Yeldersley Fields, near Shirley, 
Derbyshire, ist September 1902. — W. R. Linton. “Z". nemorosa, 
H. Mart; very early state.” — F. Townsend. 
E. Rostkoviana, Hayne, var. fl. albidis, etc. In wet boggy 
ground, full of springs, and in company with Hydrocotyle, Scutellaria 
minor, etc., below Aldworth, in the parish of Lurgashall, Haslemere, 
Surrey, 20th July 1901. Whole plant and all its parts smaller than in 
the type ; branches numerous, erect. Spikes crowded, hardly inter- 
rupted below. Teeth of leaves and bracts fewer. Flowers mostly 
white, often included. Capsules short, hardly twice as long as broad. 
This form seems to be not infrequent on the sandy heaths of Sussex 
and Surrey. — F. Townsend. 
E. brevipila. Burn, and Grem. Grass fields in abundance, 
Honington parish, Warwickshire, June and July 1902. I first noticed 
this species in Warwickshire, in a grass field, about the middle of May 
1896. It was then in flower. I have this year found it abundant in 
other grass fields in the same parish, but less abundant than where I 
first noticed it. I may have overlooked it, but think it likely that the 
occurrence of this and other species of the genus is fitful and depen- 
dant on seasons favourable to their development. — F. 'fowNSEND. 
