REPORT FOR 1909. 
419 
2317. H. MEDIA (Fries), var. platyphylla, Driice, l.c. 
Leaves broadly-orbicular ovate, bluntish, almost encircling stem, 
Yorks and Bucks. 
2319 H. ATRORUBENS, var. Crowtheri, Druce. Plant 
robust, 3 teet high ; leaves very broad and blunt. ? H. atro- 
rtihejis X media^ Grassington, Yorks. See ‘ Naturalist,’ p. 128, 1910. 
2326. Orchis incarnata x ^^ACULATA, var. praecox. One 
specimen of the hybrid of inca 7 ' 7 iata with ericetorum is reported by 
Rev. E. F. Linton at Edmondsham, Dorset, ‘Journ. Bot.’ p. 419. 
It must be borne in mind that Mr. Linton’s idea of incarnata appar- 
ently differs from that of the Rev. E. S. Marshall. See ‘ Report,’ 
p. 310, 1907. 
2327. O. MACULATA, L., var. O’Kellyi, Druce, in ‘ Irish 
Naturalist,’ p, 21 1, 1909. Discovered by P. B. O’Kelly and common 
on the Burren, Co. Clare. 
2329. Orchis mascula, L., var. obtusiflora, Koch. Syn. 
686, 1837, perianth laciniis obtusis. See ‘ Reichb. Ic. FI. Germ.’ 
xiii., p. 42, t. cccxc. f. ij. ‘ Anglia,’ Co. Clare, etc. See ‘ Irish Nat.’ 
l.c. 
CoLCHicuM AUTUMNALE, L., var. ALBUM. See Wats, ‘ B.E.C. 
Rep.’ p. 205, 1909, where it is referred by Messrs. Drummond and 
Bruce Jackson to C. candidum, Schott & Kotschy. From Bredfield 
near Woodbridge, Suffolk, Mrs. Foord-Kelcey. There is no 
reference in ‘ FI. Suff.’ to a white-flowered form. Drummond and 
Jackson suggest, l.c., that the Cohhicum has ‘in all probability been 
originally introduced, but since established in Britain.’ Surely we 
need not doubt that it is indigenous ; as it grows so abundantly in 
the aboriginal woods in the western midlands, and in pastures and 
meadows in many counties, no more suspicion should arise con- 
cerning its being native than that of the Bluebell, or Lady’s Smock. 
Its continental distribution, too, is all in favour of its being a true 
native of Britain. In Gerarde’s ‘Herbal’ it is stated not only to 
grow in meadows but ‘ in Nobottle Wood,’ in Northamptonshire. 
2429. JuNcus EFFUSUS, L., var. spiralis, McNab, North 
Ireland ; a monstrosity rather than a true variety, but keeping 
