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Some specimens of P. minus are also sent from the same locality. 
— G. C. Druce. “ Merely a state of mite^ and does not answer 
to any of the forms described by Saelan.” — Ar. Bennett. 
Urtica dioica, ~L., foiuna parvifolia. Breinton, Hereford, 31 st 
Aug. 1905. This appears to be a well-marked form, and to be also 
widely distributed. I have it from several Herefordshire stations 
and from Brecon of my own gathering; from Oxford through the 
Club under the names of '■'‘parvifolia" and '■'■ microphylla" from 
Mr, Druce ; and from Pachbrook, Warwick, from Mr. Bromwich, 
under the name “ angustifolia" I should be glad to know the 
correct name and authority. See ‘Report, B.E.C.,’ 1902, p. 60, — 
Augustin Ley. “ The described forms of U. dioica related to 
Mr. I.ey’s plant are the following: — (i) var. microphylla, Haus- 
mann, ‘ Flora von Tirol,' vol. 2, p, 771, 1852. (2) var. a?igustifolia, 
Wimmer and Grab., ‘ Flora Silesia.' See ‘ Bab. Man.,' ed. 9. This 
var. angustifolia was originally described by Fischer in 1819, 
‘ Hornem Hort. Hafn, Suppl.,’ 107 ; pro specie. (3) var., angusti- 
folia, Ledebour, ‘ Flora Altaica,’ 4, p. 241, 1833. (4) Also of 
Blytt in his ‘ Vegetationsf. Sogne Fjorden,’ 108, 1869 ; (he seems to 
have overlooked that the name had been used before), (5) var. 
atrovirens, Gren. et Godr., ‘Flore Fr.,’ vol. iii., p. 108, 1855. Pro- 
bably the plant sent by Mr, Ley is No. 2.” — Ar. Bennett. “ See 
‘ Report, B.E.C-,' 1888, p. 230, 231. I suppose the name parvi- 
folia is a bantling of Mr. Druce’s. In ‘ Koch Syn. Deutsch. und 
Schw. FI.,' cd. iii., Fischer’s angustifolia is described as having 
‘ Upper leaves linear-lanceolate.’ Will not the present plant do 
well xmdQX microphylla (No. i), with ‘leaves small, mostly lanceo- 
late ? ’ — Ed. “ This small-leaved much-branched form, if constant, 
seems better worth distinguishing than the var. angustifolia as 
understood in this country. We have not been able to come 
across either specimen, figure, or full description of var, microphylla, 
Hausm. In the new ed. of Koch, p. 2785, the only character given 
is ‘ leaves small, mostly lanceolate.’ Dr. Giirke, in ‘ Plantai Eu- 
ropsete ’ II., p. 78, quotes var. parvijolia, Wierzb. (1858) as a 
synonym for var, microphylla, Hausm. ‘ Tir. II.,’ p. 771 (1852).” — 
H. and J. Grove.s, “The description of microphylla in Hausmann 
‘Flora’ is, ‘hat 2 — 3 mal Kleinere, Schmalere, an der Basis Kauin 
herz formige, selbst lanzettliche, lang-zugespitzte Blatter.’ The 
specimens 1 sent to the Club in 1888 were, on the contrary, very 
dwarfed prostrate plants, and I hesitated to refer them to the above. 
I think these plants would come under Hausmann’s variety.” — 
G. C. Druce. 
Cannabis sativa, L. Field of tares, abundant with P. Fagopy- 
rum also, Elmsthorpe, Leics., July 1905. This casual has not been 
noticed before in the county. 'Fhc first plants found were barren. 
