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Silene luar'dinia. With.? "Specimens of a plant, most like tliis, but by tlie niauy-flowered panicles, and not densely matted barren stems, showing some likeness to Sihiie uijlata, Sm. They grew just opposite the town of Saltash, on the Devon side of the Tamer, which at the point indi- cated is a tidal river." — T. R. Archer Briggs. These specimens are almost identical in appearance with the form which ordinary Silene 7nari- tlma, from Shoreliara, Sussex, assumed when transplanted to the garden of my former residence, in Adelaide Road, London, where it grew in a shady situation. In Balmuto garden, however, the same species, trans- planted from Seafield, Fife, has retained its normal appearance.

Sag'ma ciliata. Fries. Orrock Hill, Fife, J. Boswell Syme ; and North Queensferry, Fife, A. Craig Christie. In the former station this plant grows in profusion at the east base of the hill, along the road leading irom the Kirkcaldy and. Aberdour Turnpike-road to Orrock Farm.

Spergidariu tieyltcta, Syme. " Tabley roads, Knutsford, Cheshire." — J. L. Warren. Notable as being an inland station for a plant which is ordinarily maritime. (See Journ. Bot. VIII. p. 252.)

S. rnpicola, Lebel. {rupesti-is. Loud. Cat.). Maritime rocks, Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire, F. Buchanan White; and Dingle rocks, south of Liverpool, Lancashire, J. Harbord Lewis. This plant was first intro- duced into the British list, in the 'London Catalogue' of 1857, on my own authority, from specimens collected in Guernsey in 1853. In 1860 it was detected in Britain proper, in the Isle of Wight, by Mr. A. G. More. Since then it has been found along the south and west coast, from Dorset to Cheshire. Mr. Lewis now sends specimens from Lanca- shire, and Dr. Buchanan White traces the plant into Scotland.

Liniim anymlifolinm, Huds. Herefordshire. " I am informed by the Rev. W. H. Purchas that the locality from which I send it, is the only certain locality in the county of Herefordshire. I noticed it at this spot some years ago; and again found it there abundantly this year." — AuGUSTiN Ley.

T'dia grandifolia, Ehrh. " Keswick, Cumberland. Not recorded in ' Compendium of the Cybele Britannica ' for the lake province. T. in- iermedia, DC, is the common form ; but there are numerous trees of T. grandifolia along the western side, of Derwentwater." — Charles Bailey. " I have seen it in several places in the lake district, but none where it looked really wild." — J. G. Baker.

Hypericum hfelicum, Boiss. "From Devon stations, near Plymouth. The flowers of the plant from Warleigh are rendered smaller than usual by drought. The Connnon Wood specimens, with larger llowers, were collected after the weather had become wetter." — T. R. Archer Briggs.

Saruthamnns scopariiis, Koch, var. ulbiis. " Roadside, between Nairn and Cawdor, N. B." — J. Duthie.

Trifoliuui Iiybriduui, Linn. " Knutsford, Cheshire." — J. L. Warren.

Geum inter tiiediuvi, Ehrh. " Skipton, Yorkshire. Very common between Skipton and Bolton Abbey. G. rivale and G. iirbanam, particularly tlu; former, also abundant." — C. Bailey. ,

" Rosa canina, var.?" Near Richmond, York ; J. Ward. " Belongs to R. tomentosa, not R. canina, the ibrm characterized by the combination of simply toothed leaves, with a glabrous peduncle and calyx. It touches close upon R. farinosa. Ran, and R. ci/ierascens, Dum. ; but I do not know that it has been specially named." — .1. G. Baker.

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