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shortly afterwards they turned up in the garden of the late Mrs. 
Hubbard, also at Kew, One of these specimens, Professor Oliver 
has had preserved since 1894. In the later nineties this form 
turned up again in his garden at The Vale, Chelsea, in a batch of 
seedlings, but he was unable to winter it. In a letter from Dr. 
A. B. Rendle we learn that a specimen was sent to the British 
Museum in September last, which was found by Mr. J. Reeves of 
Wolverhampton. 
The specimens which provided the material for the present 
study were noticed by Mr H. G. Brierley in his garden at Grimscar, 
Huddersfield, in the summer of 1908. 
Each season Antirrhinums were propagated from cuttings and 
it was an invariable custom to plant cuttings of the white variety 
along a border in front of the house. The other colours were 
distributed in other beds in various parts of the garden. 
For three or four years it has been the practice to sow Shirley 
Poppies behind the Antirrhinums. This bed, 4-ft. wide, presents a 
crowded appearance towards the end of the summer, and the usual 
admixture of these two species is shown in the photograph (PI. II. 
Fig. 1), which was taken on September 21st, 1909. This border is 
in an open sunny situation facing S.S.W., and thus is exposed 
to the prevailing winds. 
In the spring of 1908, prior to planting out the cuttings, the 
bed received a fairly heavy dressing of quicklime. The season was 
remarkable for its high winds and the plants were considerably 
blown, not only frequently, but for considerable periods, during 
which time the Snapdragons and Shirley Poppies were growing 
rankly together. The position of the border is such that it is 
passed frequently every day by those entering or leaving the house, 
but nothing peculiar was observed until September 24th, 1908, when 
during weeding operations, Mr. Brierley noticed that numerous 
branches of the Snapdragons had twisted themselves around the 
rough hairy stems of the Shirley Poppies, which were growing in 
close proximity to them. Many of the lateral branches had also 
twined around leaves and branches of the same or neighbouring 
Snapdragon plants. The appearance presented was that of a 
tangle of interlocked branches, and seemed so out of place in the 
Snapdragon that when our attention was drawn to it we decided to 
make a more careful and detailed examination of this interesting 
phenomenon. It was then found that this peculiar modification 
was developed in the white variety to a very remarkable degree. 
