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Hieracium rigidum, Hartm., var, scabresce?ts, Dahlst. Glyn 
Collwng (on a railway bank), (at 1,450 ft.), Brecon, 15th July 1908. 
So named by the Rev. W. R. Linton, in 1900. — A. Ley. 
Hieraciian strictum, Fr. Ettrick Bridge End, Selkirkshire, 8th 
Aug. 1908. Styles with dark hairs. — I. M. Hayward. On the 
sheet sent to me there are two exceedingly different plants. The 
larger has very floccose peduncles, with a few small glands ; broadish 
heads with few glands ; glabrous tipped ligules ; and a corymbose 
inflorescence. I believe it to be H. coryml>osum,J^i.,vax. salicifoliiun 
(Lindeb.). The smaller (without lower leaves) has both peduncles 
and heads clothed with numerous long-stalked black glands ; very 
ciliate ligules ; and cordate-based upper leaves. So far as the 
material goes I should think it a weak, probably shade-grown H. 
prenanthoides, Vill., rather than any form of H. sirictum, Fr. ; under 
which, in my opinion at least three distinct species are combined in 
our British lists. H. reticulatiim, Lindeb., and H. migustum, IJndeb., 
are quite as worthy of separation as most of our segregates. — 
E. S. M. 
Hieracium umbellatumg\„, var. linariifolium^ Wallr. Canal 
bank, near Melling, S. Lancs., Aug. 1908. Also from Sand dunes, 
Birkdale, S. Lancs., Aug. 1908. Frequent on the coast, but quite 
rare inland in Lancashire. Most of our specimens have been re- 
ferred to var, coro 7 iopifolium^ Fr., but these appear to be unsatis- 
factory under that name. Apparently a new County record. — J. A. 
Wheldon. 
Hieracium iimbellatum, L. Forma, origin. West Yorks., cult. 
4th Aug. 1908. I cannot identify this with any described British 
form. — A. Ley. 
Sonchus palustris^ L. Marsh by the Medway, near Snodlands, 
Kent, 3rd Aug. 1908. — H. and J. Groves. These beautiful speci- 
mens are well worth incorporating into the herbarium. Tiie Oxford- 
shire locality for this species is nearly destroyed by a tremendous 
overgrowth of l)ramble, thorn, &c., which not only chokes the 
growth of the plant, but keep.s the ditch dry. — II, J. R. Two 
plants only left in Oxon in 1908. — G. C. Druce. 
Phytewua spicatum, L. Tilehurst Wood, Hailsham, E. Sussex, 
v.-c. 14, June 1908, — Coll. Miss E, Br.ay ; Comm. F. L. Foord- 
Kelcey. 
Erica lusita/iica, Rudolph. On the heathy ground in Lord 
Eustace Cecil’s house at Lytchett Heath, Dorset, where it is seeding 
rapidly, Aug. 1908. — G. Claridge Druce. See ‘Exchange Report’ 
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