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has come under my notice ; nor am I able to hear of any such, on 
enquiry among other botanists. In my experience forma villosa 
reverts to type on transplantation ; it would be interesting to know 
whether this extreme form would hold its own under cultivation. 
If there is any hybridity in this plant — I take it to be between 
sylvesti'is and Rivinuma — the calycine appendages are undeveloped, 
as in the former, but the spur is that of Riviniana. — E. S. 
Gregory. 
Viola lactea x Riviniana. Hort. Cult. Chepstow, June 1908. 
Origin, Tidenham Chase, W. Glos,, where it grows with both 
parents, the hybrid being apparently more abundant than V. lactea., 
Sm. I have had the plant in cultivation for three or four years, 
and although cliestogamous flowers are produced in abundance no 
capsule has ever been produced. — W. A. Shoolbred. A good 
intermediate, which I saw last year growing with the parents. In 
cultivation I have found it to be always sterile. — E. S. M. At first 
sight this hybrid is unconvincing ; but on examination one realizes 
that the characters of lactea and Riviniana are about equally blended. 
— E. S. Gregory. 
V. tricolor, L., var. variata (Jord.). Near Beaconsfield, Bucks, 
Aug. 1908. This plant has received various appellatives by critical 
students. Dr. Drabble has recently named it variata. In this 
extremely confusing section of Violas some time must necessarily 
elapse before finality of name can be obtained. — G. Cl.yridge 
Druce, This seems fairly good V. variata ; comparison with 
Jordan's description (Pug. 26), and with specimens from Aberdare, 
ipot, named “near variata,'"' by Messrs. Baker. and Drabble, shows 
that the colour should be upper petals deep violet (very rarely 
pallid) ; side petals, blue-violet with yellow spots. In the Beacons- 
field plant they are pale yellow. — H. J, R. Yes; this is the plant 
I call yellow variata. It can be distinguished at once from V. 
alpestris, Jord., by its sliort spur. — E. D, 
V. ari’ensis, Murr., var. Lloydii (Jord.). In extending the sewage 
works at Bingley a considerable area of river-deposit was turned 
over, and on the deposited soil V. Lloydii appeared in great abund- 
ance this last season. Some of the plants were very luxuriant. — 
J. Cryer. Is not this a form of V. saxatilis, Schmidt.? — E. S. M. 
V. Lloydii, Jord., but not very typical. The leaves are usually 
larger, and the plant branched from the base. — E. D. 
V. arvensis, Murr., var. Lloydii (Jord.). Hort., Shipley, 360 ft., 
Summer 1908. Some seeds from a plant bearing the name V. 
carpatica, Borb., ‘Report,’ 1907, p. 278, found their way into my 
o-arden, and three robust plants developed, from which the speci- 
mens have been prepared. In submitting them to Dr. Eric Drabble 
