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around the root, numerous. Capsules large, not at all inflated, 
2 — 3 times longer than broad, tapering at both ends. Leaves 
usually partly buried in the sand, the lowest ones with long hafts, 
at first dull green with purplish tinge, but very soon (long before 
seeds are shed, sometimes even before capsules are formed) turning 
dull or bright red ; often not forming a flat rosette, but inclined 
at all angles to the horizon, a habit perhaps due to crowding; 
blunt, ciliate, but otherwise glabrous. — H. J. Riddelsdell. “The 
pods are somewhat turgid, and I believe it is probably referable 
to E. inflata^ Hooker fil. ; but I am not certain.” — Edw. S. 
Marshall. 
Hesperis matronalis, L. By the Rea Brook, a tributary of the 
Severn, Meole Brace, Salop, July 1905. The only previous record 
for Shropshire is an old one mentioned in Leighton’s ‘ Flora,’ 
p. 314, as occurring near Caermen, Aston, Oswestry. Though 
doubtless originally introduced, this species occurs in nearly all the 
English counties. — J. Cosmo Melvill. 
Sisymbrium strictissimum, Linn. In rough ground surrounding 
the bleach works of Messrs. Melland and Coward, Limited, on the 
right bank of the River Mersey, Heaton Mersey. Collected by 
Mr. Jas. E. McDonald, 26th June 1905. To supplement the 
supply sent last year. — Charles Bailey. 
Lepidium ruderalc, Linn. Hedgebank on the road from 
Westham to Polegate, north of Eastbourne, loth October 1905. 
Also, in profusion on the sandy ground between the gas-works 
and Langney Point, near Eastbourne, south-east Sussex, 13th 
October, 1905. Not recorded in ‘Topographical Botany’ for vice- 
county 14. — Charles Bailey. 
Z. heterophyllum^ Benth. (Z. Smiihii, Hook). Near Kings- 
thorpe, Northants, loth June 1905. This plant appears to be 
the same as that found by Mr. Druce between Kingsthorpe and 
Brampton. It differs from typical Smithii in its shorter style and 
yellow anthers, and from campestre by its habit. Mr. Druce 
informs me that the original station has probably been destroyed. 
In herbarium specimens the pods appear to be much longer than 
in the living plants, owing, I suppose, to shrinkage in drying.— 
A. B. Jackson. “ Apart from the colour of the anthers, of which 
there are none in our specimen, this seems fairly typical. The 
length of the styles is a variable character.” — H. and J. Groves. 
“I believe that Mr. F. Townsend considered Z. hderophyllum to 
be specifically different from Z. Smithii, in which case the latter 
name would stand.”— E. S. Marshall. “This is the plant, I 
believe, which I sent to the Bot. Record Club (see ‘Report’ 1877, 
