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assist in preserving the host-plant. I am assured he may believe 
the Broom Rape to be no undesirable alien, but a native species. 
1974. [L. Clandestina, L. (‘Journ. Bot.’ p. 123), recorded 
by Mr. B. Reynolds. It is a matter for regret that this should 
have been published without due enquiry being first made at 
Cambridge. The fact would have been elicited that specimens 
of Z. Clandestina from the Botanic Gardens had been planted 
in a wild-looking station.] 
1989. Mentha alopecuroides x rotundifolia (‘Journ. 
Bot.’ p. 259), from Bossington, Somerset, E. S. Marshall, who also 
(/.£•.) records M. piperita X sativa, but of that we await further 
particulars. As M. sativa, or rather M. verticillata and M. piperita, 
are each supposed to be hybrids, the offspring must be interesting 
from its complexity. 
The British Species of Thymus are treated of in a valuable 
paper (‘ Journ. Bot.’ p. 34, 1908), by K. Domin and A. B. Jackson, 
in which it is shown we have T. Serpyllum, Z., T. ovatus. Miller, 
T. glaber. Miller, and T. praecox, Opiz. 
T. OVATUS, Miller, the T. Chanioedrys for the greater part of 
British botanists but not of Fries, belongs to the group Suberecti of 
Velenovsky; the leaves are large and ovate, and the infloresence 
elongated ; without stolons. This frequently hybridises with 
Serpyllum. 
T. Serpyllum, L., belonging to group Repentes, Velenovski, 
with flowers congested in a short terminal head and elongated, 
creeping sterile stolons. 
T. praecox, Opiz. Flowers in rather large terminal looser 
capitula, and the leaves very strongly nerved. Hybridising with 
the preceding plant. 
T. glaber, Miller (the T. Chanioedrys, Fries), appears to be 
a montane or sub-alpine plant similar to T. ovatus, but having long 
creeping or procumbent branches, and a bright shining glabrous 
appearance with larger leaves. It occurs in North Wales, York, 
and in many Scottish counties, e.g., on Ben Heasgarnich, Ben 
Hope, &c. 
2026 d. Salvia Verbenaca, L., var. iNCiSA, Benth. Under 
