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some insect. Closer examination, however, showed that the 
missing piece was reflexed back flatly upon the upper or outer 
surface of the standard, and took the form of a crescent-shaped 
lobe. Upon dissecting very young flower-buds, I found the 
variation to be present in the earliest stages, the folding back of 
the lobe upon the outer surface of the standard being clearly 
seen. 
The bush upon which I found these abnormal flowers is 
situated in Roding Lane, Chigwell, and is one of a number. I 
took a later opportunity of examining the flowers of the other 
bushes, and upon two of them observed a few blossoms which 
possessed the vaiiation named. The other flowers upon these 
bushes were, however, quite normal. Those in which the 
variation occurred mostly showed it on one side only of the 
standard. 
Not having previously met with this variation, I submitted 
a specimen to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
who advised me that it was a variation of Ulex europceus 
noted by D. Matheson in the Journal of Botany , 1885, as having 
been observed by him on Putney Heath in February of that 
year. Upon reference to the above-mentioned journal, I found 
that Matheson’s observations in several details coincided curiouslv 
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with my own, in particular the appearance of the variation in a 
few of the flowers upon adjacent bushes, the vexillum of none 
of those flowers, however, having the extra lobe on both sides.— 
W. Howard, Buckhursl Hill, February 1915. [See p. 33, ante.] 
Notes on Plants. —On my visiting Mersea, on August Bank 
Holiday last, I found a plot of Lepidium latijolium L. (Dittander). 
It was growing on the sea-wall near the Strood. 1 do not know 
whether this has been recorded before for the island, but it is 
very plentiful at Wivenhoe, and thence down the river to Alresford 
Creek, so that if it is a new ai rival, it may have been brought 
over by duck or other fowl. 
I do not think I recorded for the year 1913 some white 
specimens of Epilobium hirsutum L. which were found at Fairsted 
by the roadside. It was such a striking and handsome 
plant that I sent some to Miss Willmott, and she was more 
than pleased with them. I have still some seeds left, but the 
plants I raised have not flowered this year, owing to the drought, 
