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H. tridentatu 7 H, Fr. Michael Church, ist August 1904. — 
Augustin Ley. “ I agree.” — E. F. Linton. 
H. rigidjwi, Hartm. var. ? Railway cutting at Parkstone, 
Dorset, i6th November 1904. I am told by Rev. W. R. Linton 
that this is undoubtedly the plant issued in the “ Sets ” (No. 25) as 
H. trichocaulon, Dahl. Yet the specimens I now send have very 
broad leaves, and are pseudo-phyllopodous, not to mention other 
difficulties in placing them under that variety. This plant is very 
luxuriant, often attaining 2 feet and more ; often also branching 
from the root with 4 — 5 stems. It was not, when I gathered it, 
a second growth after the plant had been cut down ; the rootstock 
shewing often 4 — 6 buds making ready for next year’s stems ; 
but some of its peculiarities may, no doubt, be accounted for by the 
late season at which it was flowering. — Augustin Ley. “ My July 
specimens from this locality have far narrower leaves and were 
named var. irichocaulon by Am. Dahlstedt. As the inflorescence 
seems to me indistinguishable from my specimens, I consider 
Mr. Ley’s specimens to be an autumnal state of the same plant.” 
— E. F. Linton. “This is the plant which was sent out in Set 
Brit. Hier. as t 7 -ichocaulon, dated July 6, 1897. This November 
gathering represents a late autumn state. When similar specimens 
(Oct. 14, 1897) were sent to the Club two critics mistook their 
specimens for H. boreale^ which is not much to be wondered at.” 
— W. R. Linton. 
H. rigidiwi, Hartm. under var. trichocaulo 7 i, Dahl. Old 
quarry near Treorchy, Glamorgan, 29th June 1903. Named by 
Mr. Ley. — H. J. Riddelsdell. “This I identify with a var. of 
H. tridc 7 itat 7 i 77 i from Drwsynant, which the Rev. W. R. Linton, 
who gathered it, tells me is var. setigeriwi^ Ley.” — E. F. Linton. 
Taraxacu 77 i pahtstre^ Web. var. udu 7 u (Jord.). Yeldersley, 
near Shirley, Derby, 3rd June 1904. — W. R. Linton. 
Lachica virosa, L. Bank ot a pill, Portishead, N. Somerset, 
2nd Sept. 1904. — J. W. White. 
Statice 77 iariti 77 ia, Mill. Lydd, E. Kent, July 1904. The plant 
with holotrichous calyx, which is much the rarer form so far as my 
experience goes in Britain. The common plant with a pleuro- 
trichous calyx, that is having hairs on the calyx-ribs only, while the 
interspaces are glabrous or nearly glabrous is S. Imearifolia, Laterr. 
= S. pubescens. — G. Claridge Druce. “ The amount of hairiness 
on the calyx in the British Thrifts varies considerably even on 
the same plant, and we do not thinks affords a sufficient character 
for specific distinction. In the present plant the hairiness spreads 
between the ribs in the middle, but above and below the grooves 
appear to be glabrous.” — H. and J. Groves. 
