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S. juncea, Linn., given in the ^ Frodromus' (Vol. I., pp. 218, 219) 
as a native of China, and cultivated in fields of Trifolium alexandri- 
num in Egypt, but the examples growing on the cindered pathway 
lacked the character of the “ ramis fasciculatis ” of the ‘ Prodromusl 
Later on in the summer some plants of the same species were sent 
to me for naming by Mr. Jas. E. McDonald of Heaton Norris, 
as occurring on a refuse tip in his neighbourhood, and these 
possessed the fascicled branches which were lacking in the cinder- 
grown examples. These fascicles are shown by the sandhills plants 
of 7th Sept. There are some variations in the direction of the pods, 
and in the length and shape of the style, and I am not sure 
that Sinapis brassicata, Linn., may not be represented in some 
of these gatherings. — Charles BailLy. Mr. Bailey informs me 
that he sent examples of all his gatherings to Kew, and they were 
all returned to him as 6". juncea, L. — H. J. R. This is Brassica 
nfra, Koch, = Sinapis nigra, Linn., Sp, PI. 933, and not Brassica 
juncea, Hf. and T. (see ‘ FI. Br. Ind.’ i. 157), which has a different 
pod and leaves, and is a true Brassica. B. juncea is a sub-tropical 
plant, seldom maintaining itself even in its own region (Anatolia 
and N. Africa to the Gangetic Plain) as an escape, and occurring 
in these islands solely as a depauperated casual near wool and 
oil factories, &c., and that comparatively rarely. — J. R. Drummond. 
Eruca sativa, Lam. A frequent plant on the poultry areas 
of the sandhills of St. Anne’s-6n-the-Sea, north-west Lancashire, 
v.-c. 60, during 1907. The flowers were all yellowish straw- 
coloured. The examples sent were collected 20th July 1907. — 
Charles Bailey. 
Thlaspi alpestre, L., van occitanum (Jord.). Yarnbury, Aug. 
1907. Typical of the waste heaps of the lead mines of the West 
Riding of Yorkshire. — John Cryer. I think this had better be 
left under the aggregate T. alpestre, L. Quite recently Mr. Buck- 
nail and I have compared specimens very carefully with the de- 
scriptions and figures given by Jordan in his Diagtioses and in the 
Observations. We noted that Jordan’s name is occitanLum, not 
^ occitanum I With that segregate the present plant agrees fairly 
well in characters of the capsule, including the number of seeds. 
But the occitanicum has very glaucous leaves — more or less dentate ; 
and a biennial root ‘vraiment pivotante.’ As far as I can tell from 
the small specimen at hand Mr. Cryer’s plant is not glaucous; 
its leaves have but little toothing ; and the root appears to be 
perennial.— Jas. W. White. ‘ Lon. Cat.,’ Ed. X., drops var. occita- 
num (Jord.). — H. J. R. 
Reseda stricta, Pers. ?, on waste ground at Canton, Cardiff, 
Glam., Sept. 1907. R. lutea, L., grew close by. The plant now 
