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Woods, but its precise parentage is, as usual, almost impossible to 
decide. The villosa parent is more likely to be one of the tomentosa 
than one of the sherardi group, and is not a mollis form. — A. H. 
Wolley-Dod. a hybrid of the involuta group ; from the fruit- 
character and the slender, nearly straight prickles, I think that it 
may be a mollis x spinosissima.—Y,. S. Marshall. Probably R. 
pimpinellifolia^ Linn, x tometiiosa, Sm. (agg.) — W. Barclay. 
Pyrits communis, var. Achras. [ref. No. 543]. Three trees in 
a hedge in a meadow at Kimble Marsh, Bucks, May 12 and June 15, 
1910. — F. L. Foord-Kelcey. 
Crataegus Oxyacantha, L., var. splcndens, Druce, Akeley, Bucks, 
May 1910, and fruits September. I have had difficulty in getting 
good flowers from the original bush whence fruit was sent to the 
Club in 1905 (see ‘Rep.’ 169), as a growth of Ivy had nearly 
strangled it. The farmer has, however, cut the Ivy away; as I 
expected, it was the unusual size of the fruit that led to his sparing 
the bush, so that it was not layered with the hedge. I have recently 
found it in three localities in Northants, and I strongly suspect it 
may be the Oxyacantha folio et fructu 7 uajore in Ricot Park and 
elsewhere in Oxfordshire of How’s Fhytologia of 1650, albeit the 
leaves of this are not conspicuously larger, although they have a 
somewhat different shape from the type. — G. Claridge Druce. 
In the ‘ Lond. Cat.’, ed. x., the name Crataegus Oxyacantha, L., 
is given to the glabrous-leaved and two-styled hawthorn ; and yet 
Linnaeus describes the plant as “subtus tomentosis.” — C. E. Moss. 
Moreover all the specimens in Herb. Linn, are this species. — G. 
Claridge Druce. 
Saxifraga Geum, L., var. elegans (Mackay) [ref. No. 3536]. 
Originally from Kerry, May 28, 1910. Given me by Mr. S. H. 
Bickham. Cultivated several years at West Monkton Rectory, it 
has changed but little, and remains much smaller than the usual 
Irish form (var. serrata, Syme), grown under similar conditions. — 
Edward S. Marshall. 
Saxifraga Hirculus, Linn. [ref. No. 40]. Midwinhead, Pent- 
land Hills, v.-c. 78, August I, 1910. Only a few specimens sent as 
the plant is extremely local, although it flowered freely this year. 
Associated with it was Cochlearia micacea, E. S. Marshall, a new 
record which seemed to be equally local, and confined to one small 
spring, height 1,000 feet. — McTaggart Cowan, Jun. 
Ribes Grossularia, Linn. Road between Galashiels and Selkirk, 
v.-c. 79. They are very plentiful in this neighbourhood, looking 
almost wild in the hedgerows and in the woods near the Tweed.— 
