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specimens correspond exactly with the plant in Herb. Kew. re- 
ferred by C. K. Schneider to B. aristala^ DC. sensu stricto.-- 
A. B. Jackson and J. R. Drummond. 
Chdidontum lacmiatum, Mill. Near Galashiels, Selkirkshire, 
July 1908. — J. M. Hayward. Good examples of laciniatum . — 
W. B. 
Fumaria occidentalism Pugsley. Tregunnel, Newquay, Cornwall, 
v.-c. I, 9th June 1908. — C. C. Vigors. The plants from which 
these specimens were taken were growing in a sheltered corner with 
a southerly aspect, and were the most beautiful summer examples 
of this plant that I have ever seen in my ten years’ intimate acquaint- 
ance with it ; unfortunately the drying process has destroyed most 
of their beauty. Here this plant seems to take the place of F. 
pallidiflora . which is apparently absent from the district. On the 
whole the plant seems to me to be much nearer F. pallidiflora and 
F. purpurea than to F. confusam so that I should prefer to retain it 
in the position it now occupies in the ‘ Lond. Cat.,’ Ed. x., and not 
shift it to just following F. confusa. I have noticed that ripe fruits 
frequently show a keel on the back of the carpels in addition, of 
course, to the ridges at the junction of the carpels. I do not know 
whether this is peculiar to this species or not, but I do not find it 
in any other species in my herbarium. In my ignorance I fail to 
understand the remark which Mr. Pugsley makes at the commence- 
ment of his Salvia (‘ Journ. Bot.’ 1908, p. 97) about Fumaria 
occidentalis being discovered in the year 1902. It would seem to 
me that 1898, or even 1895, would be more correct. Perhaps the 
Referees will give an opinion on the matter after carefully reading 
Mr. Druce’s remarks, ‘ Exch. Club Report,’ 1904, p. 4, which are 
fairly accurate, but do not exjjlain that even in 1898 — the year when 
I first took up botany — I was cognisant of the fact that the fumitory 
I most commonly saw here (now known as F. occidentalism would 
not “fit ” any species described in Hooper’s ‘ Student's Floral — 
C. C. ViGURS, 
Fumaria Vaillantii, Lois. Kempsford, v.-c. 33, June and July 
1908. New record for East Gloucestershire. As a small quantity 
of F. officinalis m L., was also gathered from the same field, an 
occasional fruit of the latter may have been also distributed. The 
large plants had remarkably interlacing branches. — H. J. Riddels- 
DELL. — Correct. — E. M. S. 
Matthiola incanam Br. (seeds only). A seedling plant was 
secured from the cliff at Nash, in the summer of 1906, and planted 
in my garden at Penarth. In 1907 it flowered freely and normally, 
and the seeds were saved for distribution and exchange. It flowered 
