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Vicarage Garden. When this Saxifrage was distributed through 
the Watson Botanical Exchange Club in 1906, the Rev. E. S. 
Marshall remarked on it : “This is the crenate-serrate (Pyrenean) 
plant.” — F. L Foord-Kelcey. The Pyrenean type, with oblong- 
oval, crenate-serrate leaves. This does not, apparently, occur 
as a native in Ireland ; and it is probably not so in England. — 
E. S. M. 
Epilobium lanceolatiun x roseum ? Waste ground, by the 
Rea Brook, Meole Brace, Shropshire, Aug. 1907. Concerning 
this, the Rev. E. S. Marshall, to whom I submitted specimens, and 
for whose verdict I am very grateful, writes as follows : — “ A very 
puzzling hybrid — one parent is certainly E. roseum^ which pre- 
dominates in the inflorescence. The long-stalked, irregularly-toothed 
stem-leaves favour E. lanceolaturn as the second factor, and I believe 
that it is most probably a narrow-leaved la7iceolatum X roseicm. At 
first I thought that it might be a cross with E. tetragonum^ Curt. 
{adnafiwi, Grisebach), but that hybrid would not produce such 
long petioles in such irregularly shaped foliage. I am, however, 
not yet quite certain about the proposed determination ; it is a most 
difficult plant.” — E. S. M. I carefully examined the Epilobia of 
the immediate neighbourhood. E. roseum, Schreb., was present, 
in cultivated ground, but quite rare. E. monta7ium, L. everywhere 
abundant, while by the banks of the Rea Brook were E. hirsutu77i, 
L. in profusion, also coming up as a weed away from the water- 
edge, and E. parviflorii77i, Schreb., not abundant. No sign of 
E. la7iceolatu77i, S. and M., one of the supposed parents of 
the hybrid, has yet been observed, nor ad7iatu77i, Griseb., but 
I contemplate searching the ground more minutely this forth- 
coming year. — J. Cosmo Melvill. This name was suggested 
by me for the only specimen which I had previously seen. I do 
not think that it is a foreign species. If it is (as I believe) a hybrid, 
E. roseu77i is certainly one parent (note the glandular, short and 
shrunken capsules, small, roseu77i-V^Q, flowers, long-stalked lower 
leaves, &c.). Mr. Melvill tells me that E. roseu77i occurs sparingly 
close by, but that he has seen neither E. tetrago7iu77i. Curt. 
{adnatu77t, Griseb.) nor E. la7iceolatu77i anywhere near. The shape 
and irregular toothing of the leaves (which also shew no tendency 
to be adnate-decurrent) are strongly in favour of a lti7iceolatu7/i 
origin, besides some other points. I have seen specimens of 
la7iceolatu77i from Yorkshire, which is further north. — E. S. Mar- 
shall. 
E. Lafnyi, F. Schultz. Orig. Dulverton, v.-c. 5, S. Somerset, 
Cult. 2 Aug. 1907.— E. S. Marshall. 
(E 7 iothera bie7i7iis, L. Sandhills near Hightown, South Lancs, 
