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PATIWNESS. 

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THEl PRINCESS ROYAL. 

HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Dr E. B. ALMQUIS,T, Sweden. 

Dr GUSTAVE BEAUVERD, Geneva. 

Dr G. RITTER BEOK VON MANNAGETTA UND LERCHENAU, Vienna. 

Dr N. LORD BRITTON, New York. 

Prof. R. CHODAT, Geneva. 

Dr H. DAHLSTEDT, Sweden. 

Dr R. DANSER, Amsterdam. 

Prof. K. DOMIN, Prague. 

Prof. M. H. FERNALD, Harvard, U.S.A. 

Prof. P. P. GRAEBNER, Berlin. 

Dr F. JAQUET, Friburg. 

Dr S. MURBECK, Lund. 

Dr J. MURR, Innsbruck. 

Prof. C. H. OSTENFELD, Copenhagen. 

M. PATRICE DE RIENCOURT DE LONGPRE, Chateau Charmonde. 

Dr B. PROBST, Langendorf. 

Dr K. RONNIGER, Vienna. 

Prof. C. SCHROETER, Zurich. 

Dr O. E. SOHULZ, Berlin. 

Dr MARm VICTORIN, Montreal. 

Dr K. H. ZAHN, KarIsruhe. 

OORRESPONDING lvIEMBERS. 

A. R. HORWOOD. 

D. LUMB. 

R. F. TOWNDROW, A.L.S.

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6 LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Clarke, W. Feaver, J.P. 

Claye, Rev. A. D., D.D. 

Claydon, Mrs E. P. 

tClear, H. W. 

tCobb, A. 

tCobbe, Miss A. M. 

tCobbe, Miss M. 

t Cole, Miss Alice. 

Colman, Sir Jeremiah. 

Coleman, Mrs J. G. 

t Colville, Mrs. 

'Comber, J. 

Cooke, R B. 

Cornell, New York State College of 

Agricul ture. 

t'Corstorphine, R H., B.Sc. 

t 'Corstorphine, Mrs. 

Cory, Reg. 

t Cottis, Miss A. 

Courthope, Robert. 

Cove, Capt. G. A. 

Craib, Pro!. W. G., M.A. 

Crail{, Dr William. 

Cranfield, W. Bo, F.L.S. 

Creed; Capt. R 8., M.A. 

Crerar Library, John. 

tCripps, John. 

Cross, Ed. R 

tCrutwell, Rev. E. C. 

Curtis, C. H., F.L.S. 

t Curtis, -Sir Roger, Bt. 

tDalgliesh, J. Gordon, F.L.S. 

Daltry, H. W. 

Darbishire, Prot O. V., D.Sc. 

Darlington and Teesdale Nat. Field 

Club. 

David, Miss Aileen. 

Davies, Miss Rosalind M. 

Davidson, W. 

tDavy, Lady. 

tDay, F. M. 

Day, Mrs. 

tDebenham, Mrs Maud. 

Dent, Mrs. 

tDickson, Miss M. 

Dinsmore, John E. 

Dixon, H. N., M.A., F'.L.S. 

Dorman, Sir Arthur J., Bt., K.B.E. 

tDouie, Lady. 

t'Drabble, Dr Eric. 

t'Druce, Dr G. Claridge, F.RS. 

Druce, F., M.A., F.L.S. 

tDrummond, Mrs. 

tDrummond, Miss M. 

Ducie, Earl of. 

Dunn, H. H. 

tD'Urban, W. S. M. 

tDymes, T. A., F.L.S. 

Edgar, Lady. 

Egerton, Miss Dorothy. 

Ellis, Edgar W. 

tElphinstone, The Lady. 

Esher, Lady. 

tEvans, A. H., SC.D. 

.Evans, W. Edgar. 

tEveritt, J. G. 

Evershed, Mrs Margaret. 

Ewing, James L., LL.D. 

Ewing, M,s P. ' 

Falkner, J. Meade, M.A. 

Farr, E. H., F.G.S. 

Farrer, Mrs James. 

tFiennes, Hon. Mrs Tvo. 

Fife, H.RH. The Princess Royal, 

Duchess of. 

tFisher, Canon Robert. 

tFleming, Mrs. 

tFlintoff, R J. 

tFoggitt, T. J. 

tFoggitt, Mrs. 

Fortescue, ,W. Trvine, M.B., C.M. 

Formby, Commander, RN. 

Foster, Henry. 

tFraser, J. 

Furniss-Sanderson, Mrs. 

Furse, PauL 

Fry, Miss. 

tGambier-Parry, T. R, M.A. 

Gates, Prof. R Ruggles, Ph.D. 

Geldart, Miss. 

tGibbings, Mrs. 

Gibbons, H. J. 

Gibson, Dr A. G. 

tGillett, Mrs A. B. 

tGilmour, John L. 

tGiadstone, John H. 

Glyn, Hon. Mrs Maud. 

Goddard, H. J. 

Godden, Mrs. 

tGodfery, CoL M. J. 

Godman, Miss E. 

tGordon, seton. 

tGourlay, Capt. W. Balfour. 

t Graham, Mrs R. 

tGraveson, A. W., M.A. 

tGraveson, W. 

Gray Herbarium, The. 

Gray, Henry. 

tGreen, T. H. 

Green, H. L. 

Greenwood, W. G. 

Gregor, Rev. A. G. 

tGregory, Mrs. 

tGrenfell, Miss M. 

Grey of Fallodon, Viscount, K.G. 

t Grierson, R.

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8 LIST OF MEMBERS. 

tMcRenna, Hon. Mrs Reg. 

tMacLachlan, J., M.A., M.D., B.C.L. 

Manchester Free Library. 

Manchester, Reeper of the University 

Museum. 

Mander, Miss. 

Manfield, Mrs H. 

Manners, Lady Mary. 

t*Marquand, C. V. B., M.A., F.L.S. 

tMartin, Rev. W. Reble. 

Martin, Miss T. H. 

Mason, Lady Evelyn. 

tMason, Rev. W. Wright, M.A. 

Matheson, J. R. 

Matthews, Pr of. J. R., M.A. 

Maude, Ashley, F.L.S. 

Maugham, Prof. S. 

Melchett, The Lord, F.R.S. 

tMelville, R. 

Mercer, Stephen P. 

tMiller, W. D. 

Milne, R. 

Milne, Jas. Fairweather. 

tMonckton, H. W., F.L.S. 

tMontague, Hon. Mrs Venetia. 

Morgan, G., F.RC.S. 

Mukerji, Lt. S. K, M.Sc., F.L.S. 

Murray, V. E. 

Murray, Rev. D. P. 

tNeild, Miss A. M. 

tNewman, Mrs. 

t Nicholson, C. 

Nicholson, W. A. 

Nicholson, W. Edw. 

Northumberland, The Duchess of. 

Nottingham, Univ. Dept. (Prof. J. 

W. Carr). 

Nutt, David. 

Nuttall, F. R Dixon. 

to'Cailaghan, Mrs. 

O'Relly, P. B. 

tOrme, Major R 

Oslo, The Botanical Museum of the 

University of; 

tOvery, Miss Hilda L. 

tOwen, Henry. 

t*Owen, Miss. 

Oxford, The City Library. 

tParkin, Dr John. 

Patey, W. E. 

Patton, Donald, M.A., B.Sc. 

tPayne, Edward. 

tPayne, Mrs. 

t *Pearsall, W. H. 

tPeel, Col. Hon. Sydney. 

Peking, Metropolitan Library. 

*Percival, Prof .. J. 

Perrin, Mrs H. 

Perrycoste, Mrs Maud. 

Pharmacie, Faculte de Paris. 

Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

Sciences. 

tPhilips, Hugh. 

tPickard, J. F. 

Plymouth Museum (T. V. Hodgson). 

Pooll, Capt. A. H. Batten. 

Portsmouth, The Countess. 

Post, Miss Eliz. 

tPowell, H. 

tPowell, Miss D., M.Sc. 

Prain, Sir David, F.RS. 

Price, W. R 

Priestley, Prof. J. H. 

t Procto·r, A. R S. 

Proby, Granville. 

Pugh, Miss Edith. 

tPugsley, H. W., B.A., F.L.S. 

tQongur, M. 

Ransom, F., F.LC. 

tRayleigh, Lady. 

tRayner, J. F. 

tRea, Carleton. 

Reading Nat. Hist. Soc. 

Rechinger, Dr RarI. 

Redgrove, H. Stanley. B.Sc. 

tRedhead, Edgar Milne. 

Rees, E. 

Rendle, A. B., D.Sc., F.RS. 

tReynolds, Bernard. 

tReynolds, Rev. E. M .. 

Rice, H. E. H. 

tRichards, Paul. 

Richards, Mrs. 

*Richards, Miss Lucy E. 

t*Riddelsdell, Rev. H. J., M.A. 

Ridge, W. Boydon. 

Ridley, H. N., M.A., C.M.G., F.RS. 

tRidley, Hon. Mrs J. 

Ridley, Rev. S. O. 

t *Rilstone, F. 

Ritchie, Norman. 

Roche, Hon. Mr Justice. 

Robertson, Prof. R A. 

Robertson, Rt. Rev. Bishop. 

*Robbins, R W. 

Rose, Lady. 

Rothschild, Lord, F.RS. 

Rothschild, Lionel de. 

Rothschild, Hon. Mrs N. C. 

t Russell, Lady Victoria. 

St Cyres, The Viscountess. 

t*Salisbury, prof. Dr E. T. 

tSalmon, Miss Hilda. 

t Sandwith, Mrs.

Sansome, F. W., B.Se., Ph.D. 

Sargent, R. Hastings. 

Saunderson, Col. J. 

Saxby, T. Edmonrlstone, J.P. 

Schroeder, Baron Bruno. 

Seott, Dr H. Dukinfield, F.R.S. 

Scott, C. H. N., M.R.C.S. 

Scote, Sir Samuel, Bt. 

'Scully, R. W. 

'Seed Testing Station or England 

and Wales. 

Seymoul', Lady Blanche. 

tShaw, H. K. Airy, B.A. 

t Sherrin, R. 

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, I{ent 

& Co. 

tSimpson, N. Douglas. 

Slader, Reginald A. 

t'Sle(lge, W. Artlmr, Ph.D. 

Slessor, The Lady Cynthia. 

tSmall, Prof. J., D.Se. 

Smith, Miss Nancy H. 

Smith, Prof. W. W., D.Sc. 

t'Smith, R. L. 

tSmith, H. B. Willoughby. 

t Smith, Dr Herbert. 

Snow, R., M.A. 

Somerville, Sir W., O.B.E. 

SOllthall, A. W. 

South London Bot. Institute. 

tSouthron, T. W. 

Sowter, F. A. 

Stair, The Countess. 

Stanley, H. D. 

tStansfield, F. W., M.D. 

Stationery Office, H.M. 

tStelfox, A. W., M.R.I.A. 

t*Stephenson, Rev. T. T., D.D. 

·t StevBns, Miss C. 

Stevenson, Miss E. H. 

St Quintin, W. H. 

Stern, Maj.-Gen. F. C., n.B E., M.C. 

t Stewart, Mrs M. E. 

Stokes, Mrs Elinor. 

tStuart, Mrs C. U. 

Sutherland, Jas. 

Sutton & Son. 

Swansea Field Nat. Club (S. Bevan). 

tSwanton, E. W. 

tTahourdin, C. B. 

tTalhot, Hon. Mr Justice G .. 1. 

TaltlOt, Miss M. 

Tansley, Prof. A. G., F.R.S. 

tTaverner, Eric des Buttes. 

Taylor, Miss Beatrice. 

Taylor, Dr James. 

Templeman, Andrew. 

tThatcher, Mrs. 

Theobald, Mrs. 

LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Thoday, Prof. D., M.A. 

Thomas, Miss Ethel, D.,"c. 

Tllomson, Miss Agnes. 

Thorold, C. A. 

Thurn, Sir Everard im, C.B., KC.M.G. 

tTlmrston, Edgar, C.I.E. 

tTocld, Miss. 

Todd, W. A. 

Tol{e, C. H. 

Tor-quay Natural Hif;tory Society. 

tTrapnell, C. G. 

tTravis, W. G. 

tTrethewy, A. W. 

Trevor Tyler, Miss. 

tTrollope, T. 

Trnup, Prof., F.R.S. 

Trow, Principal A. H., D.Se. 

Trowel'. W. G. 

tTulk, Miss A. A. 

Turner, A. 

Tnrner, G. Cresswell, F.L.S. 

tTnrreff, Rev. Francis. 

tTnrrill, W. B., D.S·c., F.L.S. 

tUllman, R. B. 

Ullswater, The Viscount, G.C.B. 

Url1uhart, M1's Douie. 

tVachell, Miss E. 

Victoria, The Public Library of. 

Vines, Dr S. H., F.R.S. 

Vincent, C. F., M.A. 

tVivian, Miss C. 

tWacle, A. E., B.A. 

Wales, National Museum of. 

twalker, H. 

tWall, T. J., M.A. 

Ward, The Lady Mary. 

Ward, Bernard T. (1930). 

Washington, Dept. of Agriculture. 

tWatchorn, Miss Elsie, M.P.S. 

j' 'Waterfall, Chas., F.L.S. 

tWatney, The Lady Margaret. 

tWatson, Major Guthrie. 

tWatson, W. 

Watt, Sir James. 

tWatts, Col. G. 

tWelJb, J. Artlmr, B.A. 

Webster, Alfred. 

V/e11ster, Rev. John. 

tWe"ster, Canon G. R. Bullock. 

tWedgwootl, Mrs. 

Weiss, Prof. F. E., F.R.S. 

Weyer, Major Bates van de. 

Weyer, William van (le. 

Whitbread, Mrs. 

t'White, J. W., F.L.S. 

Whymper, Lt. R., F.L.S, 

Whyte, J. S. 

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THE 

BOTANICAL SOCIETY & EXCHANGE CLUB 

OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 

THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY & TREASURER, 

G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, YARDLEY LODGE, OXFORD, 

FOR 1929. 

Subscriptions received, 

Sales of Reports and Advertisements, 

Life Members. 

Balance from 1927, - 

Balance from 1927, - 

Sales, 1928, 

Do. 1929, 

T. Buncle & Co.-Sales, 

Advertisement, 

BALANCE.SHEET FOR 1928. 

£270 17 0 

38 0 0 

14 0 0 

42 19 4 

£365 16 4 

Balance carried forward, £57 lIs 4d. 

PUBLICATION FUND. 

£31 12 6 Balance,- 

650 

180 

4 7 10 

1 10 0 

£45 3 4 

Printing Reports, &c., - £243 16 8 

Expenses of Distribution, 2 15 9 

Critics, Typing, etc.. 13 19 1 

Postages, Oarriages, etc., - 27 13 6 

Beneyolent Fund, 20 0 0 

Balance, - 57 11 4 

£365 16 4 

£4534. 

£45 3 4 

Balance in hand, £45 3s 4d. 

Life Members' Fund, £102 Is Od. Benevolent Fund, £5938 6d. 

Donation from Miss O. G. 

Trower, - £150 0 0 

THE ,TROWER FUND. 

£150 0 0 

Printing and Plates, 

Balance, 

Balance carried forward, £16 7s lId. 

£133 12 1 

16 7 11 

£150 0 0 

Examined and found correct.-F. A. BELLAMY, F.R.A.S., 20th December 1929.

14 REPORT FOR 1929. 

Limonium in her large garden. The greater part of our gatherings still 

remain unnamed. The cliff drive from Orotava to Buenavista was 

magnificent, and the quantities of Sempervivum and Sedum were remarkable. 

Tabellare, a most curious species, was plentiful. 

In May, a party of our Society were the guests of the Hon. Mr 'and 

Mrs Oolborne Vivian, at Bosahan. It included Mr Justice Talbot, Sir 

Roger Ourtis, Miss Olarice Vivian, Hon. Mrs and Miss Baring, Lady 

Alethea Buxton, Miss D. Meynell, Miss Butler, etc. We had the advantage 

of the company of Mr Rees, who showed us the treasures at 

Hayle, where Ajuga genevensis looked quite at home. Pinguicula grandiflora 

was in good blossom in its old station. Trigonella Ornithopodioides 

was flowering well in the gravel carriage drive at Bosahan. Most 

of the Lizard plants were seen, but the rare Trefoils were not in flower. 

In early June a visit was made to Malvern, where we are glad to say 

Sagina Reuteri is still to be found. Mr Bickham's garden at Ledbury 

was in magnificent condition. At Tewkesbury the Woad exists, but in 

smaller quantity than in former days. A visit was paid to Major Guthrie 

Watson at Ouleaze, Dorset, when, despite the rain, some species 

were added to the Dorset flora. Towards the end of the month 

another party of our members was entertained by the Earl and Oountess 

of Buxton at Newtimber, in Sussex, which included Lord and Lady Rayleigh, 

Hon. Sydney and Lady Delia Peel, Hon. Miss and Hon. Jean 

Elphinstone, etc., where Phyteuma spicatum was seen, as well as the 

treasures of the Lewes levels, Cuckmere and Newhaven. 

Then I went on to Bowood, where another group were entertained 

by the Marquess and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the guests including 

Mrs H. Graham, Lord and Lady Henry Bentinck, Lady Gwendolen 

Ohurchill, and Rt. Hon. H. J. Baker. We saw Euphorbia pilosa, under 

Mr Green's guidance, at Bath, and Potamogeton Drueei, Astragalus 

boeticus and a new variety of Hieraeium maeulatum. Another day was 

devoted to Olifton Gorge and Durdham Downs. Polemonium was seen 

near OaIne, and on the chalk uplands above Bowood grew a new hybrid 

Thyme = x T. Lansdowneiae already alluded to. 

From Bowood, Mr H. J. Baker took me to see the Scutellaria which 

he had recently gathered there, and of which we found a large patch 

some two hundred feet above the valley level. Hieraciwm Pulmonarioides 

was also in the same valley, the seeds having probably been wind-borne 

from Mells, where it is abundant on the bridge and on many walls and 

cottages. Heracleum Mantegazzianum and Symphytum peregrinum 

were plentiful. Here we were the guests of Lady Horner, who kindly 

took us to the large wood of Asham, where an Eyebright, probably a new 

species, and the new British Hieraeiu1n aeuminatum Jord. were found. 

Sir Roger Ourtis then fetched me to go to Burnham-on-Sea, where 

another group of botanists worked the district and saw Ore his hircina 

and Sisyrinchium angustifolium. Hieracium maeulatum was at Highbridge 

with some adventives. Oheddar and its neighbourhood were 

visited. Oarex depauperata was in fine fruit, and Lithospermum purpureo-caeruleum 

was common. Purn was visited for Oerastium pumi-

" 

16 m]PORT FOR 1929. 

In October I went north to Newcastle to attend the very fine and 

successful Centenary Meeting of the Hancock Museum, under the Presidency 

of Viscount Grey of Fallodon. I presented addresses of congratulation 

on behalf of (1) the University of Oxford, (2) the Ashmolean 

Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, and (3) our own Society. Addresses 

were given by Lord Arm strong, etc. In the evening I attended 

the dinner, at which Lord Grey, Sir Charles Parsons and others were 

present. The following week 1 was preBent at the Gas Conference at 

Eastbourne, which was extremely satisfactory. The town was unusually 

gay owing to the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to open the new 

and extensive area of Downland, recently acquired by the town. 

The Publications of the year are reviewed in subsequent pages. One 

of the most successful is Miss McKelvey's work on " The Lilac," alike 

pleasing for its illustrations and for its literary research. Nature, the 

Gardene,l's' Ohronicle, the Journal of Botany and the Naturalist have 

much of interest in them. 

The new members include: -Miss Abell, Mr Gerald Ash, Mr E. Leigh 

Atkinson; Lady Baker, A.R.A.; Mr C. M. Baker, Lady Charles 

Bentinck, Lord Henry Bentinck (1930), Dr K. Blackburn, H. H. Maharajah 

of Burdwan, Hon. Mrs Campbell, Miss E. C. Claydon, Mr Rohert 

Courthope, Mr John Cripps, Mr Henry Forster, Mr J. H. Gladstone, 

Mr W. B. Gourlay; Mr Robt. Gurney, D.Sc.; Mrs Harford; Rev. J. L., 

Hooppell, F.S.G.; Major C. C. Hurst, Ph.D.; the Lord Joicey, Mr R. 

Kempthorne, Miss Lane Fox; Mr C. Leighton Hare, B.Sc.; the Lady 

Lilford, Miss D. Mander, Miss H. L. Overy, Mrs Payne, Mr M. Qongur" 

Mr E. M. Redhead, Mr E. Rees, Rev. S. O. Ridley, Mr R. W. Robbins, 

Prof. R. Robertson, Mr R. H. Sargent; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Mr 

T. W. Southron, Torquay Natural History Society, Mr VV. G. Trower, 

Miss Maud Wilkinson, Miss Wotherspoon, Mr Bernard T. Ward (1930), 

Prof. Scott Watson (1930). 

Our death roll has been very heavy. In the loss of Mr Arthur Bennett 

and of Mr C. E. Salmon have passed away two of our best botanists. 

Both had acted as our referees for many years. One was the specialist 

in Pondweeds, and the other in Sea-lavenders. Besides these, we regret 

the loss of that enthusiastic gardener, Sir Alexander Buchan Hepburn, 

Bart.; H.H. Maharajah of Jhalawar, an enlightened patron of learning; 

the Countess of Fortescue, once Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen; 

the Countess of Dartmouth, Mr Alexander Roberts, Mr E. 

Sa.low Allen, Mrs Russurum, Miss Alice Trower, Canon Benwell, Mr 

J. Cosmo Melvill, a most generous donor to Manchester University; and 

Mr R. W. Goulding, the very able librarian at Welbeck, whose notes frequently 

enriched these pages. These are indeed heavy losses, and it 

will be well nigh impossible to replace them. "The Flora of Surrey" 

has had an unfortunate history. It was begun by Mr Beeby over half a 

century ago. His material was put into Mr Salmon's hands to complete. 

Towards it Mr Salmon had amassed much material, and a large 

portion of it is already printed. Now another change of editorship has 

to be made and furth'lr delay must necessarily be incurred.

RBPOHT FOR 1929. 17 

Among many changes that have taken place is the transference of 

Prof. Dr Walker Stiles from Reading to the Chair of Botany 'at Bir 

Jilingham, lately filled by our genial member, the late l?rof. Yapp. Mr 

J, R. Matthews has been chosen to occupy the Chair at Reading. 

'We offer our best wishes to Captain John Ramsbottolll, O.B.E., Hon. 

Secretary of the Linnean Society, on his accession to the Keepership of 

Botany in the British Museum, Crowwell Road; also our sincere congratulations 

to Dr L. Cockayne on receiving the Darwin medal of the 

Royal Society, and Mrs O'Callaghan on her receiving the GrenfelI medal 

(19;'30) for her beautiful paintings of British plants. 

To the authorities of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh, 

and of'the Natural History Museum at CromwelI Road, we are 

indebted for help. Among foreign' botanists we are grateful to M. 

Patrice Riencourt de Longpre for determining the Leguminosae, Prof. 

O. E. Schulz for naming the Cruciferae, Dr Ronniger the Thymes,' Dr 

Almquist the Shepherd's Purses, Dr J. Murr and Dr P. Aellen the 

Chenopods, Dr R. Danser the Polygonaceae, Dr Dahlstedt the Dandelions, 

Dr F. J aquet the Alchelllillas, Dr Probst the Adventives, Dr K. 

Zahn the Hawkweeds, and Prof. J. Holmboe. 

To Dr S. Howard Vines, F.R.S., the Rev. F. Bennett, Mr T. Gambier-Parry, 

and Mr R. H. Corstorphine we are indebted for literary help; 

and for critical examinations of British species we are very grateful 

for the kindness shown by Mr J. Fraser, Dr E. Drabble, Mr C. E. Britton, 

Mr W. H. l?earsall, Col. A. H. Wolley-Dod, Rev. H. J. Riddelsdel1, 

Mr W. \Vatson, Mr D. Lumb, Mr A. E. 'Wade, Mr R. Butcher, Mr 1. 

A. Williams, the late Mr C. E. Salmon, Mr W. O. Howarth, Mrs Gregory 

and Mr P. M. Hall. 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 

In case of the Secretary vacating his 

position, the following members will act 

in choosing a succesoor : -Rt. Hon. Harold 

T. Baker, Hon. Mrs G. Baring, Mr R. H. 

Corstorphine, Sir Roger Curtis, Mr C. E. 

Britton, Lady Davy, Mr and Mrs Foggitt, 

Mr P. M. Hall, Mr W. H. Pearsall, Miss 

Vachell, and Mrs Wedgwood.

PLANT NOTES FOlt 1929. 19 

34/2. X CHEIRANTHUS ALLIONII Hort. = x ERYSIMUM ALLIONII E. 

OCHROLEUCUlIf X PEROF'SKIANUlIf F. & M. Alien, garden hybrid. Waste 

ground, Kennington, Be::ks, 1929, G. O. DRUCE. 

35/4. RADIcuLA ISLANDICA (Oeder) Druce, forma LAXA (Rikli), teste 

O. E. Schulz. On th!l mud of a dried up reservoir at Byfield, Northants; 

Olattercut, Oxon, G. C. DRucE. 

43/1. DRABA AIzOIDEs L., var. MONTANA Koch Syn., 62, 1835, excl. 

8yn. Host. Planta plerumque validior, fructifera, usque 15 cm., alba. 

FLores paulo l1l11jores quam in pll1ntl1 typica. Pennard Castle. We 

seem to lack t,he type in Britain. The E.B. Plate is a mixture, not true 

ilizoides. 

43/2. D. RUPESTRIS It. Br., var. b. LEIOCARPA O. E. Schulz Das 

Pflanz., 224, 1927. Siliculae subglabrae vel glaberrimae; pedicelli intcrdum 

glabri. =var. ALPICOLA Hook. Fl. Scot., 197, 1821, non Wahl. Ben 

Lawers, GREVILLE; Oairngorms, HOOKER. 

Var. c. BRAC'TEATA O. E. Schulz, I.e. Folia cauIina 5, oblongo-ovata, 

utrinque 1-denticubta, infima I cm. longa, sensim breviora et angustiora, 

omnia bracteiformia; pedicelli inferior!ls fructiferi, 1.2 cm. longi. Ben 

Lawers, DWKSON. 

43/:3. D. INCANA L., var. NANA Lindb. (var. GRACILIS (Al'. Bennett 

non Meyer». Plants very small, 1 inch, on the shell-sand at Mcllon 

Oharles, W. Ross, l1nd at Tain, East Ross. On the sugar limestone at 

Oronkley, N.W. Yorks; ViTiddy Bank, Teesdale, Durham; on the Serpentine 

at Balta, Unst, Zetland; Oraig Cailleach, Ben Lawers, Mid-Perth; 

Ben Bulben, Sligo (A. G. MORE)! Often mistaken for D. rttpestr·is. 

Planta PUSiIll1; caules 1.5-10 mm. longi, simplici vel ral1l0si, parvifolia, 

rarissime aphylli. G. C. DRUCE. 

44/2. EROPHILA PRAECOX (Stev.) DC., var. JlfICROCAltPA O. E. Sclmlz. 

On ant-hills, Park ]'arm Down, Berks, alto 600 ft., C. G. TItAPNELL. Det. 

O. E. SCHULZ. 

54/2. BRASSICA NAPUS L.. = B. CAMPESTltIS L., f. AURWUI,ATA DO. 

Bm·ton-on-Trent, 8,taffs, CL O. DRucE. Det. O. E. SCHULZ. 

Var, SYNTOMOCARPA O. E. Schulz. Didcot, Berks, July 1929, G. O. 

DRUCE. Det. O. E. SCHULZ. 

56/2. EItUCA ERUCA (L.), var. ERIOCARPA (Boiss.). Bmton-on-Trent, 

Staffs, G. O. DRUCE. Det. O. E. SCHULZ. 

Var. (proles) LONGlROSTItIS (Uechtr.).Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, G. O. 

DItUOE. 

59/20(2). BUItSA PERGROSSA (E. At.). Wilcote, Oxon, June 1929, 

G. O. DRucE. B. pergrossa was originally found at Bremen by Dr 

Almquist, teste E. ALMQUIST.

20 PLANT NOTES FOR 1929. 

61/25. LEPlDIUM RAMOSISSlMUM A. Nels., var. ROBUSTUM Thell. 

Hovingham, N. Yorks, G. C. DRUCE, teste O. E. 8CHULZ. 

65/7. IBERIS ODORATA L. Alien, Greece;' etc. Burton-on-Trent, 

Staffs, G. C. DRUCE. Det. O. E. 8CHULZ. 

88/14. VIOLA CONTEMPTA Jord., novo var. PATULA E. Drabble in Journ. 

Bot., 74, 1929. Known from the type by its widely spreading, more or 

less prostrate habit. 8here, Surrey; Crowborough, Sussex; Chesham, 

Bucks; PUl'well Field, near Hitchin, Herts .. 

89/1. POLYGALA SERPYLLIE'OLIUM Hose, var. DECORA C. E. Salmon in 

Journ. Bot., 193, 1929. Cwm Glas, Carnarvon, 1890, H. T. MENNELL; 

Dalnaspidal, Perth, 1922, C. E. SALMON; Braemar, Aberdeen; Ben 

Bulben, Sligo; Caenlochan Glen, Angus, 1916; Glen Fiagh, 1905, G. C. 

DRUCE. This, doubtless, is my var. MAJUS from O'Collllor Hill, gathered 

in 1902, and from Glen Aan, Banff, in 1888. 

101/7. STELLARIA GRAMINEA L. Hogsback, Surrey, G. M. ASH. A 

form with sepals wider, petals shorter, some with rounded points, and' 

having more numerous flowers some flowers double, other.,; 

apetalous. 

117/2. MALVA SYLVESTRIS L., var. VIOLASCENS W. B. Turrill in Gard. 

Chron., 164, 1929. Somerset, H. WHITJ,EY. I have seen var. CAERULEA 

Dr. near Burnham, in Norfolk, which is of a chicory-blue colour, but 

as it is a colour form whosil permanency under culture has not been 

proved it is not given in my List. 

[127/6. GERANIUM ENDRESSI J. Gay, vaI'. ARMITAGEAE W. B. Turrill 

III Gard. Chroll., 164, 1929. Cultivated at Dadnor, R-oss, by Miss 

Armitage. For notes on Geranium Endressi see Journ. Bot., 44, 88, 

1928.] 

138/1. RHAMNUS FRANGULA L. With proliferous flowers and foliose 

petals at Wisley Common, Surrey, N. K. GOULIJ. See Journ. Hort. Soc. 

xxxvii., 1928. 

142/2. ACER CAMPESTRE L. (HEBECARPUM), novo var. TRILOBATA 

Druce. Lilaves three-lobed, 5 cm. long X 4.75 cm. in broadest part, 

the centre lobe 3 cm. long by nearly 2 cm. broad, the lateral 3.25 cm. 

long X 1.40 cm. broad. A very few leaves show signs of a slight incipient 

lobe. From large tree, Cranborne, Dorsilt, G. C. DRUCE. 

183/10. PRUNUS LUSITANIOUS L., with the var. MYRTIFOLU. Alien, 

W. Europe. Naturalised by the road-side, Hascombe Hill, near Cranleigh, 

Surrey, 1929, R. GRIERSON. 

185/1. H,UBUS IDAEUS X ULMIFOLIUS. Hungerford Park, Berks. In 

Rep. B.E.C., 726, 1922, I alluded to an extraordinary Bramble found

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by Major Bates Van de "\Veyer, in which the ripe fruits separate from 

the receptacle, are dull red in colour, and have the flavour of Raspberry. 

It is not a sub-erect species. The stems root at the tips, but 

I can see no evidence 'in the leaf or stem of idaeus. G. C. DRUCE. 

Mr W. "\VATSON says :-" The completely septenate leaf and the 

felted drupelets point unmistakably to the presence of idaeus. R. 

idaeus has felted carpels, but none of the blackberries have; I think the 

other parent is ulmifolius not caesius. Vide the long panicle and strong 

based prickles. This hybrid has not, I think, been reported previously, 

either in this country or abroad. Usually R. idaeus is out of flower 

when B. ulmifolius begins to flower." 

185/47. R. ULM.IFOLIUS Scho;tt, var. CONi'RACTIFOLIUS (Sudre). So 

named by W. WATSON. Hunsbury Hill, Northants, September 1929, 

U. C. DRUCE; Bromley, Kent, "\V. WATSON. 

185/ R. MACROSTACHYS P. J. M., t-este W. WATSON. Sussex, a,s 

ERICETORUM. Not the real ericetortlrh LeHlVre (the bramble which 

Rogers published as R. Radula, sub-sp. anglicanus), nor is it the 

Bramble which Rogers issued as R. Lejeunii, var. ericetorum Lef. It 

is, I think, pretty certainly R. macrostachys P. J. M., which Focke says 

he received from Rogers as anglicanus. It agrees splendidly with 

P. J. M.'s own description, and with Sudre's description. It is not, 

of course, B. fuscus, var. macrostachys Rogers. VV. WATSON. 

185/72. R. LASIOCLADOS, var. ANGUSTIFOLIUS x PYRAMIDALIS, teste 

W. WATSON. A very beautiful plant growing with the parents near 

Bagley Wood, Berks, G. C. DRUCE. 

Var. ANGUSTIFOLIUS x VESTITUS, teste W. WATSON. Bagley Wood, 

Berks, G. C. DRUCE. 

185/73. R. EGREGIU8 Focke. Boars Hill, Berks, G. C. DRUCE. Det. 

W. WATSON. 

190/4(2). ALCHEMILLA HETEROPODA Buser in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Gos 

iv., 73, 1894. Caenlochan, Angus, 1915, Mrs CORSTOHPHINE. See C. E. 

Salmon in Journ. Bot., 13, 1929. 

190/7. A. TENUIS Buser. Boxwood, Herts, June 12, 1911, J. E. 

LITTLE. This was probably a mixed gathering since Mr C. E. Salmon 

says his specimen is not tenuis, but M. J aquet, having again examined 

my specimen, agrees that it is tenuis. 

190/8(2). A. ACUMINATIDENS Buser in Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, ii., 

624-6, 1902. By the Spey at Aviemore, Easterness, Miss 1. M. ROPER. 

Spe C. E. Salmon in Journ. Bot., 14, 1929. 

190/8(;3). A. CONTHOVEHSA Buser et Jaquet. Cave Hill, Belfast, 

dIrs WEDGWOOD. "Identical with my Fribourg specimens determined 

by Buser and myself after his controversy with me."-F. JAQUET.

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419/22. HIERACIUM SCOTICUM F. J. Hanbury, var. SUBMACULATUJl,l 

Dahlst€dt, novo var. [Ref. Nos. 4241, 4286.] Differt a typo foliis 

subinde ± maculatis, cooterum tenuibus minus pilosis. Cooterum vix 

devians. Seems to be connected with the type through intermediate 

forms. Style yellow. Rare. Hoy, Orkney, 1929, H. H. JOHNSTON in 

'l'rans. Bot. Soc .. Edin., 1929. 

419/50(2). H. DAsnODUM Dahlstedt, novo sp., undeI' Zahn's H. 

PALLIDUM Bivona-Bernhardi. Oaulis humilis-sat elatus O-folius, ba8i 

sparsim et longe piloSllS, cooterum parefl pilosus, apieem versus paree 

stellatus. Folia rosularia 4-5 subtus soope violascentia, ext€riora ovali.a 

obtusa minuta dentieulata, interior a lata-anguste ovato-Ianceolata 

dentibus acutis sparsis ad basin longioribus proodita longe acuta, supra 

subglabra-glabra, rutilus sparsim in nervo dorsali longe flt dense pilosa 

petiolis densissime et longe lanuginoso-pilosa. Inflorescentia vulgo 

pauciflora laxa ramis acladium 10-20 mm. longum ± superantibus, sat 

dense floccosis glanduJis et pilis mediocriter longis sparsim-densiuscule 

obt€etis. Involucrum latiusculum basi ± ovata. Squamae exteriores 

sat angustae acutiusculae, interiores angustae ± acutae---:obtusiuseuJae, 

pilis sat longis apice longe albidis ± densis et glandulis parum oonspicuis 

parvis sparsis obtectae, in marginibus ± floccosae apice carnosae. 

Ligulae obscure luteae. This species seems to be allied to Hieracium 

pycnodon Dahlstedt, but differs from it through the more hairy leaves 

and petioles and less hairy darker heads. Locality.-Reference No. 

4012, heathflry rocky crags on hillside, 430 feet above sea-level, between 

Grut Fea and Glen of Button, Hoy, Orkney, JUly 12, 1928, H. H. 

JOHNSTON, and J. SINCLAlR [Ref. No. 575]. Common. Plants in full 

flower. In the living plant, the leaves are dark green above, dark 

purplish-green or dark purple henflath; style with its two recoiled 

branches yellow. See 'l'rans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1929. 

419/69(2). H. PSEUDOMICRODON Dahlstedt, nova sp. Gaulis circa 2 

cm. altus ima basi excepta glaber-subglaber- a medio parce stellatus 

apice glandulis minutis sparsis obsitus, 1-3-foliatus. Folia sat lrete 

viridia subtus, pallidiora, 2-3 approximata, anguste lanceolata aeuta, 

superiora minus-minusque evoluta anguste lineari-lanceolata longe 

acuta, summum bract€iforll1e acutum, omnia paree et remote acute 

dentata, supra glabra-subglabra subtus proosertim in nervo paree et 

longe pilosa, inferior a in petiolo longe et sat dense pilosa in margine 

paree ciliata vel glabra. Involucrum mediocl';e sat angustum. Squamae 

exteriores ± lineares, reliquae angust€ ± lineari-lanceolatae, omnes 

in apicem acutiusculum, protractae, sat c):"ebrj'l et sat longe pilosae, parce 

et minute glanduliferae, exteriores inferne in margine leviter stellatae. 

Galathi1(m circa 25 mm. diametro. L-ig'!(lae amoene luteae, dentibus 

glabris. Antherae polline carentes. Styl'l1.s cum stignwti-fms luteus. 

One of the Oreadea, 'under Zahn's H. saxifrognm., nearly related to 

H. microdon Dahlstedt, from Iceland, but differs from it through more 

sparingly dentated leaves and more hairy heads. Locality.-Grassy,

PLANT NOTES FOR 1929. 27 

423/54(3). T. EXIMIUM Dahlst. High Force, Durham, 1928, G. C. 

DRUCE. "A modification," DAHLSTEDT. 

423/65(2). T. I.ACERABILE Dahlst., nova sp. Folia laete viridia, 

angusta, elongata 'lineari-lanceolata, lohis plurimis, ba.si lata, dorso 

(>ol1vexo, ± dentato-laciniato, in apicem longum angustum acutumobtusiusculum 

protractes, lobo terminali parvo sagittato, 10buIo apicali 

nngusto, saepe protracto lingulato-obtusa, petiolis et nervo mediano 

pallidis. Scapi vulgo quam folia breviores. 1n'Voluc1'u'ln mediocre 

crassiusculum subobscurum. Squamae exteriores lanceolatae, erectopatentes, 

subadpl'essae, densum ± recurvatae. CulathiUll1 c. 45 mm. 

diametro. Ligula c sat laete luteae, marginales extus stria canoviolaceae 

notatae. Antherac polliniferae. StyhiS et stigmata fuscovirescentes. 

Acheni.1im olivacea-stramineum, apice acute spinulosum, 

caeterml1 ± tuberculatum, .3 mm. longum, 1 mm. latum, pyramide coni co 

cylindrica, 1 mm. longa, rostra c. 9 mm. longo. 

The species is allied to T. stenogZ>ossum Dahlst., but it differs in its 

long and narrow leaves with more irregular and more laciniated lobes, 

and in the small end lobes with narrow tongue-like terminal lobe. • 

Wheatley-turn, near Oxford, May 1929, G. C. DRUCE. 

423/75(2). T. OBLONGATUlIf Dahlst., nova sp. Folia sub obscure Vlrldin, 

± oblongi-spathulata, lobis ± approximatis, brevibus, saepe ± hamate 

aeutis, loho terminali (in foliis extimis exeepto) ± ovato-sagittato, 

integro obtuso-obtusiusculo v. acutiusculo, marginibus ± saepe valde 

80nvexis, in foliis intimis majis dentato, petiolis ± violascentibus. 1'11- 

10ZUCrtlll1 parvum atroviride. Sq'l/,lLmae exteriores ± lanceolatae, recurvatae, 

± obsoure purpureo-violascentes, aoutae. CaZathi1l.111 parvum, c. 

45 lllm. diametro. Lig!iZae obscure luteae, marginales extus stria rubropurpureo 

notatae. Anthcrae polliniferae. Styl1{'S et stigmata ± fusoovirescentes. 

Distinguished by its spathulate or obovate-lanceolate leaves, with 

very well developed ovate-sagittate, mostly blunt, end lobes, and small 

dark heads with recurved, very acute, lanceolate and purplish coloured 

outer phyllaries. Railway near Notley Abbey, Buoks; Marcham, Berks, 

G. C. DRUCE. 

423/75(3). T. OBSClJRATUlI£ Dahlst., nova sp. Folia obscure (8uhprasisio) 

viridia, lanceolata-oblongo-lanceolata, lob is approximatis latis 

cleltoideis, summis interdum subhamatis, subintegris, reliquis dorsa 

crebre et acute dentatis, lobo terminali ± lato, ± sagittato, mediccri, 

sat magno marginibus convexis et lobis praeimis parum determinato, 

sub integro, parum denticulato, dentato breve acuto, petiolis et inferiore 

v. maxima parte nervo mediano ± violascentes. Scapi plures foliis 

·superantes. In vol'utrnm mediocre, breve, obscure atrovirescens, basi ± 

ovato. Sqnnmae exteriores breves, ovato-lanceolatae, late lanceolatae, 

± adpressae v. late adpressae, atrovirescentes. CnZathi1im parvum, c. 

40-45 mm. diametra. Lig7{./n.e obscure luteae, marginales extusstria

28 PLANT NOTES FOoR 1929. 

rubro-violacea notatae. Antherae replete polliniferae. Stylus et stigmata 

leviter fusco-virescentes. Achenium 3.5 mm. longum, 1 mm. latum, 

apice breve spinulosum, externum valde squamulosi-tuberculatum, pyramide 

cylindrica 0.5 mm. longo, rostro 9 mm. longo. 

This species is easily distinguished by its dull green (and as it seems 

a little leek green) leaves, with broad, very densely dentated lobes and 

broad end lobes, short heads with adpressed, broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate 

outer phyllaries, and dark yellow flower heads. Seems not to 

be related to Scandinavian forms. By the Banbury Road, Steeple Aston, 

Oxon. G. C. DRUCE.· 

423/77(2). T. PECTINATIFORME Lindb. f. Under wall, Westbury-on- 

Trym, W. Gloster [333J, May 5, 1927, Miss I. M. ROPER. Occurs in 

Sweden, etc. 

423/78(2). T. PERHAMATUM Dahlst., nova sp. Folia laete viridia, 

anguste lineari-Ianceolata, multilobata, lobis brevibus, ± hamatis, ± 

approximatis, acutis, subintegris v. inferioribus ± denticulatis, lobi terminali 

brevi et lato ovato-sagittato integro, marginibus convexis, folia 

interiora .majis oblongo-lanceolata, lobis ± denticulatis, lobo terminali 

magno, lato sub integro-integro , marginibus nervi convexis, breve acuto 

-obtusato, petiolis et nervo dorsali ± violascentibus. In·wlucrum parvum, 

mediocre, obscurum basi ovato. Squamae exteriores ± lanceolatae 

retroversae, ± violascentes. Calathium parvum, c. 70 mm. diametro. 

Lig1Lln e sat obscure luteae, margin ales extus stria cano-purpurea 

notatae. Antherae polliniferae. Stylus et st·igmata fusco-virescentes. 

Achenium fusco-stramineum, c. 1.5 mm. longum, vix 1 mm. 

btum, pyramide brevi conica, superne acuti spinulosum, inferne ± 

laeve, rostro c. 9 mm. longo. 

This species is distinguished by its narrow, pale-coloured leaves with 

short hamate lobes and broad end lobes (short and small in the outer, 

and large and broad in the inner leaves), faintly coloured petioles and 

middle nerves, and dark, small heads with purple-violet outer phylIaries. 

The outer leaves have small and broad end lobes with highly convex 

margins, the inner have large, very blunt end lobes, all with short and 

acute lateral lobes. Seems to be a little related to T. subsagittipatens. 

Boar's Hill, Shefford Woodlands, Berks; Elsfield Lane, Kingsey, Oxon; 

railway near Notley Abbey, Bucks, G. C. DRUCE. 

423/81(2). T. PRAEVNUM Dahlst. Hayle, Lizard Downs, Cornwall; 

Cronkley Fell, N.W. Yorks (nearest to this species), G. C. DRUCE. 

423/87(2). T. SUBLATISSIMUM Dahlst., nova sp. Folia sat laete viridia. 

anguste lanceolata-anguste obovato-lanceolata, lobis ± deltoideis, 

subhamatis, distantibus, subilltegris v. inferioribus sparsim denticulatis, 

± acutis, interlobiis ± denticulatis, saepius latis v. margine ± purpurnscentibus, 

lobo terminali ± sagittato, latiusculo, lobulis InceraIibus. ± 

revers is , marginibus suberecti leviter convexis, illtegro-subintegro 

breve ncuto, folia interiora lobi terminali latiore marginibus maiis con-


ginibus convexis subintegris v. infer ne ± denticulatis v. basi in uno exteriore 

latere dente majore instructo, petiolis angustis et nervo mediano 

± roseo-violaceis. IWlJolucrum atroviride mediocri, basi ± ovata. 

Squamae exteriores erecto-patentes v. ± recurvae, late lanceolataeovato-Ianceolatae, 

obscure purpureo-violaceae. Calathiurn parvum, 35- 

40 mm. diametro. Li.(]ulae sat obscure luteae, marginales extus stria 

purpureo-violacea notatae. Antherae polliniferae. Stylus et stigmata 

lutea. Acheniwn ignotum. 

This form resembles in general appearance T. sagittipatens Dahlst. 

from Sweden, but differs from it by its coloured petioles and middle 

nerves, darker green leaves, small dark heads with purplish-violet outer 

phyllaries and small flower heads. On the old walls of the Roman Villa, 

North Leigh, Oxon, 1927, G. C. DRUCE. 

446/2. ERICA TETRALIX L., var. Mr IL KEl'

VaT. c. LEPTOPHYLLOIDES (Murr) Thell. 

Port Talbot, Glamorgan; Rye House, Essex; 

Kincardine, G. C. DRucE, teste AELLEN. 

PLANT NOTES FdR 1929. 35 

Near Brighton, Sussex; 

Par, Curnwall; Si Cyrus, 

600. C. ZOBELII Ludv. et Aellen. Galashiels, Selkirk, G. C. DRucE 

and Miss 1. M. HAYWARD, teste AELLEN. 

600. C. PROBSTIl Aellell. St Philips, Bristul, 1916, as Berlanderi X 

alllUIn, G. C. DRucE, teste AELLEN. 

600/20. C. STRIATUM (Krasan) MUIT. Dr Probst writes me 

(24/3/29) that he has fuund that C. strictu,lIl of Roth Nm·. PI. Sp., 180, 

1821, pl:ecedes striatlt1l1 as the cOrrect name. Roth's original plant i8 

at Berlin. 

600/21. C. HIRCINUM Sc.hrad., sub-sp. MILLIANUM AelIen, var. 

QurNoA (Willd.) Adlen. Galashiels, Selkirk, Miss I. M. HAYWARD, as 

C. paniculat'lbm in Adv. FL Tweeds'ide, 193, 1919. 

600/31(2). C. GIGANTEUM Dun Prod. Fl. Nepal., 75, 1825. Coste 

and Heynier, 1907. Aellen in Fedde Rep. Spec.. Nov., xxvii., 201, 1929, 

'tnd Ber. Schweiz But. Gesell., xxxviii., 1929. Sabinal, Westun, 

Sumerset, T. H. GREEN in Herb. Druce; GaIafoot, Scotland, 1926, Miss 

1. M. HAYWARD. 

615/11. POLYGONUM lIUKUS X PERSICARIA = P. BRAUNEANUM Schultz. 

Binsey Commun, Oxon, with both parents, September 1929, G. C. DRucE', 

teste Dr DANSER. 

615/19. P. PATULUM M. Bieb., sub-sp. KITAIBELIANUM Danser. 

Boston, Lines, July 1928, G. C. DRUCE, teste Dr DANSER. 

518/4. RUMEX ELONGATUS Gussone. Have we this in Britain? This 

was first br'Ought to the notice 'Of British botanists by Dr H. TRIMEN in 

Jo'urn. Bot., 237, 1873. He had not seen type specimens, but the 

'rhamea plants between Putney and Hammersmith Bridge agreed, he 

thought, with tlle description in Gussone's Plantae Ra1'iores. The leaves 

were not crisped, perfectly fiat, 8-12 Iin. long, 1 in. wide, and much 

attenuated at the base into a lung petiole. Subsequently the Rev. A. 

LEY recorded it from the Wye-side near Chepstow. Recently I sent to 

D1' Danser, in Java, my Tintel'n specimen, 1900, which the Rev. A. Ley 

passed as elo1l,gatns, but D0Danser says it is only a form of crispus. 

To this species he ,also refers the eZongatus [2199] 'Of Mr C. E. Britton, 

from between Hammersmith Bridge and Putney, June 1920. Mr 

Britton says his specimens are quite identical with thuse gathered by 

Dr Tl·imen. DJ' Danser says "Forms like this amo grow in Holland, 

on the banks of rivers." Are these the planifolius Schur? G. C. 

DRUCE. 

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618/9. R. CONGLOMERATUS X lI

NOTES ON PUBLICATIONS, 1929. 45 

NOTES ON PUBLICATIONS, NEW BOOKS, ETC., 1929. 

(Owing to exigencies of space and the erratic 1"eceipt of f01'eign wO'rh,1 

this is necessarily incomplete.) 

AELLEN, PAUL. Beitrag zur Systematik der Chenopodium-Aden. 

Amerikas Vorweigend auf grund der Sammlung des United States 

National Museum, Washington, DC. Fedde Rep., vol. 36, 31-64, 1929. 

The localities of 21 species, and numerous varieties are cited. They 

include :-1. C. Arnbrosioides L., with var. s'ufjruticosum, var. anthelminticu7n, 

sub-sp. chilense, var. denudaturn (Phil.) Aell., var. andicoZa, 

var. queTCifo·nne (Murr) Aell., sub-sp. Burkadii Aell., sub-sp. obovahun 

(Moq.) Aell., sub-sp. retusurn (Juss.) Aell. 2. C. Botrys. 3. C. foetidum. 

4. C. inci.su7n. 5. C. aristatu7n. 6. C. bipinnatijidullt. 7. C. 

bonariense. 8. C. crassijolium, with var. Degenianum. 9. C. '11WCTOspennmn.l0. 

C. frigidum. 11. C. capi.tatum (Blitum). 12. C. virgatll.1l1 

(Blitu1l1). 13. C. culifornicllln. 14. C. antarcticum. 15. C. 

rnexicanurn. 16. C. glanc'wln, with sub-sr. salinum, sub-sp. pulchrurn, 

sub-sp. ambigumn (R. Br.). 17. C. rub7··wm. 18. C. Parodii. 19. C. 

mrinaturn (R. Br.) 20. C. Berlandieri, with sub-sr. Zschachei (Murr) 

Zobel, sub-sp. platyphyllurn (Issler) Murr, sub-sp. Iludwigianurn Aell., 

sub-sp. pse·udopetiolare Aell., sub-sp. Esanae Aell., sub-sp. Boscian'n1lL 

Aell. 21. C. Bushiallu1l1 Aell. 

Fedde Rep., 119-161. Additional species of Chenopodium: -22. C. 

macrocalycin7Lln Aell. 23. C. (l!rizunicurn. 24. C. Watsoni. 25. C. 

hircinl&m., with f. deminutuln, var. and·inum, var. rhombicUln, sub-sp. 

catamaTcense, sub-sp. Milleanurn. 26. C. philippianum Aell. 27. C. 

Q·uinoa. 28. C. pallescens. 29. C. sandwiche.ulII.. 30. C. car71'1lIosu1n. 

31. C. pallidicaule Aell. 32. C. album, with many varieties, including 

lanceolaturn Muhl. 33. C. Zobelii Ludwig. 34. C. opulifolium. 35. 

C. leptophyllurn Nutt., with var. Leptoph·ylloides. 36. C. hians. 37. 

C. inamoenum. 38. C. Vulvarill. 39. C. atrovirens. 40. C. subglab 

TUln. 41. C. Fremontii. 42. C. incanium Heller. 43. C. gigantospermum. 

44. O. papul'Osurn Moq. 45. O. petiolaTe (paniculut·um 

Murr). 4&. C. hastatwn. 47. C. pileollwyense. 48. C. cordobense. 

49. O. lenticulare. 50. O. Hyloides. 51. C. Covillei. 52. O. Standleyanwn. 

53. C. gla'U.cophyllum. 54. C. missollTiense. 55. C. mumle. 

56. O. 1trbicum, and several hybrids. 

These two papers form' an extremely valuable contribution to the 

studies of the members of this critical genus. 

Fedde Rep., 215, 1929. ChellUpodi1&m rugosum Aell., from Siberi

NOTES ON l'UBLJ:CATIONS, 1929. 47 

Pjlanzengattung, 316. It is needless to say that the arrangement in all 

four works is different. It must be remembered that, since the last 

three works were written, Dr Stapf's activities have added a large number 

of genera which previously were in a subordinate position, and also 

some that are actually new. The key in Dr Bews' work occupies 44 

pages. "Ve notice that Ynlpia is kept distinct from Ji'estuca, Leersia 

from Oryza and Phragmites from Arundo. Brolllus includes Serrafalcus. 

Glyceria is separated from P'uccinellia. We are glad to see Atropis relegated 

to the shades. Digitaria and Echinochloa are separated from 

Panicutn, but Deyeuxia is merged into Oalamagrostis. Spartina maritil1W 

is used instead of S. stricta. Our Festuca rigida is called Scleropoa. 

It is a distinct little grass which deserved a generic grade of its own. 

In the Distribution of the Genera the approximate number of species 

is given under each genus, and also their geographical distribution. 

73 species are assigned to Bumbusa, 200 to Poa. The agricultural uses 

are also given. Under Tritic'um, Percival's views on the wheat are aptly 

condensed. A.o'l'ostis palustr,is is used instead of A. alba, and A. tennis 

instead of A .. ca.piUaris. Under Ammophila, A. baltica is "a variety, 

or closely allied species," its possible hybrid origin being ignored. GastTi,dium 

alLstrale is used i,nstead of the older G. velli-ricosu;n. And so, 

too, Phalaris B()ehmeri is taken instead of the earlier P. Phalaroides. 

Our alien, Panicum colonum, is put, with Crus-galU, into the genus 

Echinochloa. There is a key to the varieties of Setaria italiea. In his 

statistical summary, Dr Bews gives 483 genera with 5871 species. A. 

large portion of the book is used to discuss general ecology, and this is 

done in an' able manner. Some botanists would say that Festuca pratensis, 

elatior and (Lrtmdinacea are one species, yet it is stated that the 

two former are less rust and drought resistant than a7'undinacea, which 

is grown for these reasons in S. Africa and Qalled the New Zealand Tall 

Fescue. The appendix must not be lost sight of since much new information 

is given, especially on the new genera of the Bambuseae. There is 

an extensive Bibliography. To the student of grasses, this work will 

be found to be most useful. 

BOSE, Sir JAGADIS CHUNDER, M.A., D.Sc., F.It.S., etc. THE MOTOR 

l\bCHANIS$I OF PLANTS. 8vo., pp. xxv., 429, tt. 242. Longmans, Green 

& Co., London, New York, Toronto, 1928; 21/-. "In this volume; the 

author has brought together the results of his researches on the movements 

of plants, which have been published from time to time in previous 

works. They relate not only to the visible external movements, but also 

to the invisible internal movements concerned with the propulsion of 

sap." Sir Jagadis first announced his discoveries in the motor mechanism 

of plants in an Evening Meeting of the Royal Institution, 29 years 

ago, 'when he said every plant and each organ of every plant responds to 

stimUlation, the excitation being manifested by an electric response of 

galvanometric negativity. This was elaborated in 1902 in his work, 

"Response in the Living and non Living." Continuing his work he 

demonstrated that not only " sensitive" plants but ordinary plants as


Salicaceae, Ericaceae, Boraginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Labiatae, Rosaceae, 

Crassulaceae, Onagraceae, Umbelliferae, Compositae, Liliaceae, 

Orchidaceae, Cyperaceae, Graminaceae, and Coniferae. The Flower 

Chart is ingenious and shows the development of the other families from 

the ancestral buttercups. In this work the chart is chiefly valuable in 

showing the lines of evolution and relationship, and consequently in giving 

a clue to the arrangement of families and orders in the text. Its 

greatest value lies in making it possible to trace the effect of insects and 

wind upon the evolution of the flower, step by step. It also serves as a 

ready and graphic key to orders and families, and thus makes it possible 

to obtain such a mastery of family types as to render family keys unnecessary. 

An excellent clavis to the families is given, and the way to 

use it is clearly explained.. The description of spedes being clear and 

definite, the illuRtrations well-ehosen, well-drawn and well-coloured, make 

it a pleasing work. It is one which every botanist visiting that delightful 

region must have with him and, later on, whenever its pages are 

opened, scenes of beauty and of interest, and a varied and pleasing flora 

will bring back to his memory the places where they were seen growing 

ill their natural surroundings. One wishes that such a work was available 

for the British Flora. Just as the arrangement of the families 

differs from that of onrs, so too the divergences of nomenclature are 

many. The Coral-root appears as C. i1171ata and not the earlier tri/ida. 

Erythraea is wrongly retained instead of Centa u,rimn. COmaT1!m is 

kept as a distinct genus. Bern/a is used, but surely unnecessarily, for 

Si1l'm enci1I/f1h. SpecnZaria is chosen for the older name Legonsia. We 

are glad to see the earlier name for the wood rush, .1 l!l1 coides Adanson, 

is used, but our ElorZea is given as PhiZatria. Goodyera appears m; 

Peramiwn, but is not that an untenable name? .The Frog Orchis is 

bracteatum under CaeZoglossum. It is very close to, and perhaps inseparable 

from, viridis, but I think we are correct in putting our bracteate 

form under Vaillantii. Tenore. One would have liked to have seen 

the name of the botanical author at the end of the species. This delightful 

volume cannot be left under the shadow of a shade, and it can 

assuredly be said that it is a most satisfactory work. 

eLEMENTS, EDITH S. Fr,owERS OF COAST AND SIERRA. Pp. 226, tt. 32, 

eoloured, painted from life. H. Wilson & Co.; New York, 1928. 

Here is another charming and distinctly useful volume treating of the 

flowers of the Pacific coast from Southern California to British Columbia. 

The plants are delightfully drawn from living specimens and the colours 

are well reproduced. In the introduction, Dr Clements gives a popular 

sketch of the evolution of plants with no uncertain voice, but it is perhaps 

as seasonable as some others and certainly it is more pleasantly 

told. Under each species many useful details are given, as that under 

RanmlCu.lns californicu,s, which ornaments the low grassy hills on the 

Californian coast as our English Buttercups adorn our meadows, we are 

told that the many-petalled fragile blossoms reflect the sunshine from 

polished surfaces-a subject whiC'h is much interesting Dr Parkin at

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carries on his account of his Asiatic explorations. Cyclamens are treated 

by H. Correvon, p. 97. He says a root of O. europaeurn lived for 60 years. 

Ootoneaster Sirnonsii, p. 108, is recommended as a hedge-plant. Notes 

from a New Zealand Plant Hunter, p. 143. RwnnnCUZ1tS grarnine1tS, by 

Dr Parkin, p. 220. He observes that the petals do not have the glazed 

surface of R. buZbosus nor the vast number of stamens of the yellowflowered 

species: Chile and the Andes (continued), Clarence Elliott. 

Botanical Tour in Cyprus, G. C. Druce, p. 356. Dr R. A. Fisher and 

Dr A. D. Imms have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society. Rothamstead 

has now three Fellows on its staff. We congratulate our member, 

Mr G. "\V. E. Loder, on his election to the Presidency of the Royal 

Horticultural Society on January 24, 1929. There is a portrait of him 

on p. 154. A good review of Turrill's Plant Life of the Balkan Peninsula 

is given on p. 424. Alpine and Shingle Plants of New Zealand, part ii., 

p. 72. Mont Serrate, at Cintra, now likely to change hands, is well 

described and illustrated, p. 96. Mitcham Peppermint, p. 265. The 

black variety is the one usually cultivated. 

GENEVE, BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE Bo.TANIQUE DE. Ed., R. Chodat. 

Vol. xx., fasc. 2, 386-488, 1928. Contains, inter aZia-Senglet, A., La 

Melanogenese chez quelques plantes d'un inMret pharmaceutique, 7 fig. 

Beauverd, G., Comptes Rendu des Seances, Janv.-Dec. 1928. Includes 

variations in Valais of NigreteZZa nigra, and its hybrids with 

Gyrnnadenia. Polymorphism of SiZene acauZis, with a new species, S. 

rnantziana Beauv., from Mt. Cenis at 2100 metres, p. 480, and S. acauZis, 

. var. patu/a, p. 384, var. quadriZoba Beauv., p. 383, and of HedysaTltm 

obscuTltrn, p. 482. Vol. xxi., pp. 228, 1929. Prix, 20 frs. New species 

of Bunitbrn (i.e., pygmaeurn, Savoy), etc., Jacq. M. Otto, Recherches 

experimentales sur les Gonidies des Lichens appertenant aux genres 

ParrneZia et OZadonia. 

GODDARD, T. RUSSELL. HISTORY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 

OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWOASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 1829-1929. 

Pp. 195, tt. 17. With a foreword by the President, Viscount Grey of 

Fallodon. This excellent resume of the work of the Society could not 

have been entrusted to more able hands and Mr Goddard has given some 

very interesting details of the work and of the workers of the Society 

since its commeneement. One order, one family, forty-nine genera, 

and 218 species new to science have been published in its Transactions. 

Mr N. J. Winch, whose herbarium is preserved in the Hancock Museum, . 

published Remarks on the distribution of the indigenous plants of 

Northumberland and Durham, as connected with the geological structure 

of those counties, in the Transactions in 1830, and A New Flora of 

Northumberland and Durham, with sketches of its Climate and Physical 

Geography, was published by J. Gilbert Baker and G. R. Tate in 

1848. In other branches of Natural History, equally good work has 

been accomplished. The illustrations supplied are very good, notably 

the likeness of Lord Grey, and there are others of the third Duke of


Northumberland, the first Baron Armstrong, W. Van Mildert-Bishop 

of Durham, Colonel John Joicey, M.P·., the second Baron Armstrong, 

N. J. Winch, W. Hutton, Sir W. C. Trevelyan, and also of the two 

Hancocks-keen ornithologists, whose collections are the pride of the 

Museum which bears their name. Many botanists of note were connected 

with the Society. In addition to Winch and Baker, they had Sir W. C. 

Trevelyan who wrote on the Botany of the Faroes, Daniel Oliver, Rev. 

A. M. Norman, Rev. H. B. Tristram, Rev. F. J. Bigge (who introduced 

Erin'Us on the Roman Wall), Henry Brady, F.R.S., and H. T. Mennell. 

It may be well to explain that N. J. Winch bequeathed his private herbarium 

to the Linnean Society, where it rema'ined for twenty-five years. 

On June 4, 1863, at a general meeting of that Society, an extraordinary 

resolution was come to, considering the terms of the bequest, 

to present the collection to the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 

Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where it is now preserved. 

It contains some Roses of considerable interest. 

GODFERY, Colonel M. J. Recent Observations on the Pollination of 

Ophrys in Journ. Bot., 298, 1928. Ophrys Tn'Uscijera, O. arachnites, 

etc., at Challes-Ies-Eaux, Savoie. Review of the Iconographie des Orchidees 

d'Europe et du Bassin Mediterraneen, by E. G. Camus and A. 

Camus, l.c., 320, 1929. 

GODWIN, H. PLANT BIOLOGY. An outline of the principles underlying 

plant activity and structure. Pp. 264, fig. 65. Cambridge University 

Press, 1930; 8/6. This, it is said, "is a book for first-year 

medical students, and for ecological students of similar status." The 

author has particularly emphasised the' physiological point of view, and 

the physieo-chemi(,al background of plant-life. One has reason to think 

that the reference of the author that "too often students of botany 

not only come up to the University, but pass through its botanical 

courses, with far too little a pprecia tion of the general biological subjects 

with which they deal" is not unjustified, and there can be no 

doubt that this book will afford a means whereby such a deficiency may 

be made good. The author diseusses living and non-living matter, and 

shows that the ordinary definition is not so simple as it seems. As regards 

Plants and Animals, the simplest criter,ion for distinguishing one 

from'the other is that the latter does, and the former does not, contain 

ehlorophyll pigment. The student is taken through the various stages 

and has very clearly explained to him the nature of the ,living plants, 

its contents of crystalloids and colloids. The necessity of water to plant 

life is necessary for maintaining rigidity, and the whole class of herbaceous 

plants is dependent on the presence of a plentiful water supply. 

A somewhat heavy but necessary chapter on organic substances and their 

chemical characters leads on to the metabolism of the higher plants, 

where the difference between animal and plant "Respiration" is explained, 

to the latter of which the word breathing should not be applied. 

The J?lant Ce11, Photosynthesis, Yeasts and the Bacteria are well explained. 

The Fungi and Green Algae are next discussed. The Fuc'Us and

NOTES ON PUBLICATIONS, 1929. 

of the overlooked published names, e.g., CO-riUIL, as restored by N. E. 

Brown in the Supplement to English Botany, 48, 1891. It was not valid 

because there were other conflicting names, and so did not come into 

use. Oddly enough, of the four specific names cited, three of them 

are referred to different genera, where they were first supposed to be 

described. Strictly they all belong to the conserved genus Spergula-ria, 

however Cori,olL metii'lt1l1 and O. 'rubrwm are referred to A-renaria media 

and A. 1'ub-ra respectively; Corion marinuln to Butia marina, and O. 

-r'upestre N. E. Br. to Lepigonum -rupestre. If one is saturated 

with the earlier volumes and supplements, it 'would seem that these 

M'e the proper names to use. In the later numbers of the Supplement 

It has a different meaning, since now such names refer to the earliest 

name of the species. This volume is essential to every systematic botanist, 

and it will be of the greatest service to the horticulturist and to all 

of the many heads of the sciences grouped under the head of botany 

since its consulter is informed to which family any plant belongs, the 

place and date of publication of the genus and species, and its geographical 

home. The extracts have been made with meticulous care, 

and Miss M. L. Green is to be warmly congratulated upon her assiduous 

work in extracting them. The Index still has the advantage of having 

Dr '1'. A. Sprague as its supervisor, after 22 years of very laborious 

service. A new feature is " Nomina Genera nova atque neglecta sub 

familiis disposita," which enables one interested in .any group to see 

what new genera have been published in the last five years. One small 

correction may be made. Under Lonas ann1W, the author is given as 

Grande, 1924; it should be Druce in RE.C., 287, 1918. Italics are not 

used for any of the genera. All are in the same type which is an easier 

plan for the printer. The typography is what we should expect from 

the Clarendon Press. and the appearance of this, the seventh supplement, 

adds another debt to the memory of Darwin who was the originator 

of this magnificent contribution to Botanical Literature which has 

already had as its Editors, Hooker, Dyer, Prain and Hill. 

INDEX LONDINENSIS, containing Illustrations of Flowering Plants, 

Ferns, and Fern-allies. Edited by Dr Otto Stap£. The original work, 

Ieonum Botanicarum Index, was published in 1855 at Berlin, by Dr 

G. A. Pritzel, W. Pamplin being the London agent. It ran to ll03 

double-eolumned pages. The names and places of publication alone, 

,,-ithout reductions or synonyms, were given. Despite this the author 

had to reject 150,000 determinations as worthless. There are fourteen 

pages of Bibliography, and about 107,000 referenees. The present work 

is being prepared under the auspices of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

who have wisely entrusted the printing of so important a work to the 

Clarendon Press at Oxford. In 1928 the eard MS. of the first volume, 

with nearly 84,000 references -to illustrations, was in the hands of the 

printers. When the remaining 5 vols. are published, the total number 

of entries will amount to nearly half a million. Dalla Torre and Harms' 

" Genera Siphonogammarum» has been used for cross reference (why 

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the Sind Himalaya Genus, CremanthodlLm, R. D'O. Good, p. 259. The 

Proceedings, November 28-May 29. Dr A. W. Hill, p. 34, alluded to 

the large group of wild hybrids in New Zealand in his paper on Hybridisation 

in the New Zealand Flora, specially mentioning the Gaultherias. 

E. Marsden-Jones and Dr W. B. Turrill read a paper on 

Hybridisation in certain genera of the British Flora, especially Silene 

and Centaurea, and Dr Moss contributed a paper .on Some Natural 

Hybrids of Clematis, Anemone and Gerbera from the TransvaaL Dr 

Claridge Druce, p. 51, gave an account, illustrated with lantern slides, 

of his visit to Cyprus, and mentioned some new discoveries. H. W. 

Pugsley, p. 59, read a paper on British Euph'rasia. The Presidential 

Address by Sir Sydney F. Harmer was given on May 24. It was a 

very able discussion of Polyzoa, and .occupies 50 pages. The Hooker 

Lecture, on the "Origin of Adaptations," was given by Dr E. J. Allen, 

F .R.S. The obituary notices are good, noticeable those on Coulter and 

Dyer. The usual additions and donations to the Library occupy fifteen 

pages. 

LONDON NATURALIST, THE. The Journal of the London Natural History 

Society. Hall, 40 'Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, 

E.O.3. President, W. E. Glegg. Bot. Sec., H. E. Spooner. Aristolochia 

rotlmda L. in Surrey, p. 16. A. Clematitis L. in Trimen and 

Dyer's locality at Hampton Court, Middlesex. Brambles of Kent and 

Surrey, W. Watson, p. 21-26. A detailed list of the plants of the area 

is in the course of publieation. Those included in this Report, pp. 9-16, 

run from Papaveraceae to Violaceae. 

MoKELVEY, SUSAN DELANO. THE LILAO. A Monograph, with Contributions 

from Ernest Henry Wilson, Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum, 

who gives the History and Distribution; Alfred Rehder, Curator of the 

Herbarium, Arnold Arboretum, who describes the genus and its sections; 

Theodore A. Havemeyer, President, New Horticultural Society, who 

describes the eulture, and Dr William T. Councilman, who treats of 

the insect pests and diseases to which the Lilac is subject. Demy 4to." 

pp. 597, with 172 full-page plates, 1929, Macmillan & Co., St Martin's 

Street, London; £3 15/- nett. The photographs (except four) reproduced 

by Mr George ·W. Root of West Roxbury. This complete and 

exhaustive classification of the popular genus, Syringa, with cultural 

notes, and full, descriptions of species and varieties will undoubtedly 

become the standard authority and reference. The appearance of the 

book is distinetly pleasing, and it forms a volume worthy to be placed 

by the side of Millais' "Rhododendrons." Its value is enhanced by 

the inclusion of colour-charts, reprinted from colour standards and 

colour nomenclature, by Robert Ridgway. A removable folder contains 

plates of all the colours of Lilac species and varieties, to which are 

keyed the text descriptions. The subject of the Monograph was suggested 

some years ago by Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, and during 

his life-time he did everything possible to further its completion.

I. 


The 28 species of Lilacs treated of in the work, with two exceptions, 

b(3long to the Asiatic area. There are two in Japan, and two-So vulgaris 

and S. Josikaea-are found in central and southern Europe. S. 

Emoq,i and S. afjga.nica are Himalayan, four are indigenous in Korea, 

and seven in China. 'fIle most widely distributed species are the tree 

Lilacs, S. arm7(.rensis, and S. pekingensis. The first, as a large bush or 

small tree, grows throughout the Korean peninsula, adjacent Manchuria, 

and in the region bordering the Amur river. It reappears on 

the mountains of Japan as the var. japon lea, and is abundant in Hokkaido, 

where there are trees 45 feet high. No true Lilac is indigenous 

in Japan. Rehder gives a most excellent account of the genus, with 

key to the species. S. refiexa, is beautifully photographed, but the fine 

range of colours is remarkable, and must be seen to be properly realised. 

S. hyacinthifiora is a charming hybrid of oblata and vulgaris, produced 

in France by Lemoine. The treatment, both pictorially and literary, 

of S. v!dgnrls is of the first order, extending to 198 pages, with 15 fullsize 

plates. The index is copious and correct. Indeed the whole book 

is one of the most satisfactory Monographs we have met with. 

MARLBOROUGH, REPORT OF THE NATURAL HIS.TORY SOCIETY OF, for the 

year 1928. Pp. 84; 5/-. Printed at the Cambridge University Press. 

Mr Peirson contributes the Botany, which includes many records already 

given in our Report. Glyceria distans is a new record for the Marlborough 

List. 

MARIE-VICTORIN, FRERE. Le Dynamisme dans la Flore du Quebec. 

Contr. Lab. Botanique de l'UniversiM de Montreal, n. 13, pp. 89, 1929, 

with many illustrations including a good one of a marsh field of Butomus 

1t?11bellatus. Might one suggest that the author's names should appear 

after the specific names in the index? L.c., n. 12, pp. 163-176, 1928. 

Deux epibiotes remarquables de la Minganie-Oypripedium passerinum, 

novo var. minganense Vid., and Draba luteola Green, novo var. mingan 

ei8ii Vict. 

MARQUAND, C. V. B. The Botanical Collections made by Captain F. 

Kingdon Ward in the Eastern Himalaya and Tibet in 1924-5. Journ. 

Linn. Soc., 154, 1929. 446 species, of which 52 species and 27 varieties 

are new, are here described. In this excellent work, Mr Marquand had 

the assistance of Mr H. K.' Airy Shaw. There are a new ThalictrH,7J1, 

and Ranunculus, two Larkspurs, one Aconite, three species of Oorydalis, 

Iberidella, three IfiJchnis, one ]J;I1/7·ica7·la" two Impatiens, one Evonymus, 

three Leguminosae, nine Saxifragaceae, including S, Kingdonii, one 

Schef/lera, one Senecio, one Sa,nss'wrpa, one Cya'ncdh7(.S, one Oa,mp;nula, 

one Agopetes, one Gaulthp.7'ia, two RH.ddleia, one Oralc/lI.rdia, one Ge'ntiana, 

a new Gentianaceous genus, Kingdon-Wardii. Marq., one Swertia, 

four Pedic'ula.ris, one Pleciamdrns, one ]J;Iicromeria, one Phlnmis, one 

Salix, one Arisarma-among others,


NABELEK, Dr Fr. Iter Turcico-Persicum, pars. iv. Publication de 

la FaculM des Sciences de l'UniversiM Masaryk. Treats of plants 

gathered from Acantholimon. Included are: -A new Plantago-thrichophylla 

Nabelek, Allium trichocephalurn, t. 4, and A. Fedtschenkoi 

Nabelek, from Kurdistan, A. Haussknechtii, from Aleppo, A. rhitorean'um, 

from Kurdistan, Uropefalum Susianum, from S.E. Persia, and 

"uncus "J,Va1'akensis, from Tauro-Armeno. Part v. treats of Gramineae 

Cryptogamae, with the genera Peniathenllin (Oalamagrostis partim), 

and Anatherum (l1. tauricolum), t. 1. Koeleria Dominii Nab., t. 2, 

from Tauro-Armeno, Aeluropus mesopotamicus Nab., t. 5, from 

Euphrates, Agropyron Podperae, t. 3, and A. Kosanii, from Kurdistan, 

are described as new species. 

NATURE. Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd., St Martin's Street, 

W.C.2. Editor, Sir R. Gregory. Weekly; 1/-. This most useful Journal 

goes on from strength to strength, and although necessarily the 

mass of matter it contains is beyond the purview of the field naturalist, 

yet even he cannot afford to neglect its pages. Ranunculns aeer, subvar. 

minuti/lorus Druce, in Rep. B.E.C., 24, 1923, p. 6. To this plant Dr 

Parkin and Dr Turrill have contributed additional knowledge. See pp. 

413 and 568, where it is called a female form. When removed to garden 

soil it did not alter the size of the petals. The Supplements have been 

of great interest. A recent one on Lightning, by Dr G. C. Simpson, 

F.R.S., C.B., dispels a popular delusion about the actual cause of a 

thunderstorm. Some startling figures are given. The energy dissipated 

in an average lightning discharge is of the order of 3000 K.W.H. Swann 

says a column of air one inch long offers as much resistance to the 

passage of the electric current as a copper cable 30,000 million million 

miles long, and of the same cross section; that is, as much resistance as 

that of a copper cable long enough to reach from here to Arcturus and 

back twenty times. Although the conductivity of air is so small, yet it 

is by no means insignificant, since a charged insulated conductor exposed 

to the atmosphere loses some three per cent. of its charge a minute. 

Pringle's Geologic Aspects of the Channel Tunnel Scheme, p. 608. 

Greenland, as It Is and Was, by Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., p. 456. 

Aspects of Fossil Botany, by Dr D. H. Scott, F.R.S., pp. 319, 350. 

Natural Hybrids in Plants, p. 587. 

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Oarnedd Llewelyn, p. 53. He makes some important records in plant 

altitudes. N. Woodhead, p. 59, gives a paper on the Distribution of 

Lloydia serotina. Obituary notice of Thomas Porter Blunt, of Shrewsbury, 

aged 86, p. 74. Although not specially a botanist, he was much 

interested in the local Flora. He was a valued and dear friend, and was 

a fellow-examiner with me at the Pharmaceutical Society for many years. 

He took first-class honours in Natural Science from Magdalen Oollege, 

Oxford, and had the honour of rowing for his Oollege. Variation in 

Veronica hybrida, M. Gepp, p. 134. Pink-flowered forms occurred with 

the ordinary form in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. This variety 

had long been known in Denbigh. Mr J. Griffith, of Bangor, grew it 

for many years, and in his garden it bred true. The white-flowered 

form also grew with it, and was found to be constant in culture. A 

note to this effect is added by the Editor. Albino Fritillaria M eleagris 

L., near Benthall Hall, Shropshire, George Potts, p. 135. Perhaps introduced 

by the former owner of Benthall, Mr George Maw. Flora of 

Oader Idris, Dr J. H. Salter, p. 136. 

OSTENFELD, O. H. Genetic Studies in Polemonium. Experiments 

with P. mexicanum Oerv. x P. pal{'cifiorum Wats. Separate from Heereditas 

xii., 1929. 

PARKIN, JOHN. The Glossy 1;'etals of Ranunculus. Annals of Botany, 

vol. xlil., July 1928. The glossy yellow of the buttercup petal, Dr 

Parkin says, is probably unique. It is confined to the single genus, 

Ranunc1{,!i/,s, including Ficaria and Ceratocephalus. The peculiar features 

responsible for the gloss are: -(a) A perfectly smooth upper epidermal 

layer of narrow cells with hyaline contents, consisting of yellow 

pigment dissolved in a higher refractive oil. (b) A compact subepidermal 

layer crammed with starch granules. The layer, contrary to the views 

expressed by previous investigators, is apparently more than one cell 

thick. His investigation leads him to believe that glossiness is a character 

of first class phylogenetic, and so of taxonomic, importance within 

the genus, permitting it to be sharply divided into two sub-genera, the 

one containing the glossy, and the other the mat-petalled species. 

PEARS ON, H. H. W., D.Sc. Gnetales. Edited by A. O. Seward. 

Pp. 194, tt. iii. Oambridge University Press, 1929; 18/-. The excellent 

photograph which prefaces the volume recalls vividly to my mind my 

last sight of him., I had been to tea with General Botha in 1914, and 

while walking back to Oape Town over a portion of Table Mountain, 

I met a soldier who had been in the Oxford Post Office, just waiting to 

start to somewhere in Africa, when suddenly Pears on appeared. Despite 

the dread uncertainty of war and its consequences, he was looking 

forward with eagerness to continuing his researches on liVelwitschia. 

Almost the last words he said, when saying good-bye, were to promise 

to send me photographs of this interesting group. As we know, his life 

was cut short ere it had. well begun. He died on November 3, 1916.


Fortunately he was able to continue work and he visited the Welwitschia 

area. Gnetales is represented by three genera, EphedTa, Gnetum and 

lVelwitschia. They have few species. There are five European species 

of EphedTa, and 27 extra-European, in all 32. There ,are about twentyfive 

tropical species of Gnetum, but Welwitschia is a monotypic genus, 

with one species only, miTabilis. The areas of the 32 Ephedras are 

given, as also the Gnetums, which are mostly lianes. Three are found 

in tile Guianas, seven in Brazil, one in Ecuador, and one in \V. Indies, 

while in tropical Africa the Cameroons have one, and Angola one, while 

tropical Asia has nineteen. Curiously enough there appears no reference 

to the earlier name, Tmnuoa Bainesii, given to this species by 

Hooker in GaTd. ChTon., 1008, 1861. Welwitschia was published in the 

same Journal, 71, 1862. It may be remarked that this curious plant 

was successfully cultivated in the tropical orchid-house at Cambridge. 

Eight chapters are devoted to the Morphology and Anatomy of the three 

genera, which ar'e illustrated by 88 good text-figures. The inter-relationship 

of the Gnetales is treated of in chapter v. and there is a good Bibliography. 

The volume is a distinctively valuable contribution to the knowledge 

of some very curious plants, one indeed, being" mirabile !" 

RAYNER, J. F. A SUPPLEMENT TO TOWNSEND'S FLORA OF HAMPSHIRE 

AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Pp. xix., 132, 1929; 6/-. printed by T. Bunde 

& Co., Arbroath, and published and sold by the author. It is a quarter 

of a century since Townsend's Second Edition of the Flora was published, 

so it was high time for this Supplement to appear. There was a very 

heavy loss on Townsend's work as the sales were very small; and it was 

an expensive book to produce. The preface in this work strikes a somewhat 

despondent tone when speaking of the disappearance of some of 

the rarities. But even those he mentions need some corrections. For 

instance, Leersia, as it is called, has not" long vanished from the neighbourhood 

of Brockellhurst," for I saw it there in July. But the fact 

that 60,000 houses have been built in the county since the end of the 

war shows how rapidly the destruction of rural areas is going on. He 

alludes to the spread of certain species since the publication of 

Townsend's Flora-MatTicaT'ia suaveolens, SpaTtina Townsendii, CTepis 

taTaxacifolia, O. biennis, Mimulus guttatus (LangsdoTfii is a nomen 

abortivum), Epilobiurn angustifoliurn and, in a smaller degree, Euphorbia 

CypaTissias. Notwithstanding its appearance in the list of plants, 

CaTum Bulbocastanmn should be deleted since there is no adequate record 

of it in the county. StellaTia dichotoma, p. xiv., is a lapsus for 

Silene dichotoma. "Ve have nothing but praise for the supplement proper, 

and there is an immense amount of new material added to the 

Flora of the county. The citations of Mr Groves might now be omitted 

since Mr Pearsall' has supplied a most useful Monograph of the 

Batrachian Ranunculi. V:!e regret to see such obsolete names as SisymbTium 

pannonicum and Columnae used for aliissimum and oTientale, and 

Erythmea should be replaced by CentulLrium Hill. One doubts if Hiemcium 

dumosum Jord. covers all the plants given under it. And is Hi era·,


SIRJAEV, G. Generis Trigonella Revisio Critica, ii. Publication 

de la Faculte des Sciences de l'Universite Masaryk. This treats of 

species beginning with no. 24, lac';niata (List no. 17), to 39, smyrnacu. 

A very complete citation of localities, with maps showing distribution, 

are given, and lists of 1cones and Exsiccatae. Two plates are supplied, 

:to vi. being one of T. Falcata from Soootra. 

S06, Dr R. Sur Systematik und Soziologie del' Phanerogamen 

Vegetation del' Ungarischen Binnengewasser, in Archiv. Balalonicul1l 

45, 1928. A key to Callitriche is given on p. 58. 

la. Fructus late alatus. longitudine latior. 2 mm. latus, "", .... ",," C. stagnaLis, 

lb. Fructus vix vel angustissime marginatus, ","""""""",,. " ","" "" " "" ...... """. 2, 

2a. Stylus basi refractus, fructu adpresso. Fructus isodiametricus, 

1.2-1.5 mm., ." ....... ," ................ " ..... " ...... , .......... "" ...... ,................ C. namulata. 

2tJ. Stylus tJasi erectus, ........... "" .... ""'" ...... , .. " ....... , .... "'" ... " .. ,,, .. ,,...................... 3, 

3a. Stylus 4-6 mm. longus, remanens, fructus longitudine latior, 

1.2-1.5 mm. latus, ........................... " .. " ............... ,,""" ...... , .... ,,'" C. polymorpna. 

3b. Stylus 1-2 mm. longus, mox deciduus, fructu latitudine longo, 

1 mm. longus, ., ................. ', ....... " ....... '" ... " ........ "" ... ,'''"."" .... ". C. verna L 

Many forms are described under each species, and there is a very critical 

treatment of Hippuris, MyriophyZl'l1.m, Utricularia, etc. 

S06, Dr R. Kritische Bernerkungen, iii., in Rep. Botanika Kozlemenyek, 

Band xxv., 133, 1928. It includes several varieties of Ophrys 

and Orch'is. Under Orchis incarnatus he has f. rhombeilabus Reichb., 

f. rehlsus, f. rostrijormis, f. macrophyllus, f. stenophyllus, f. subfoliosus, 

f. brevicalcaratus, and f. aZbiflorus Lec. & Lam., var. ochroleucus Boll.= 

stramineus Reichb., var. extensus Hartm. and subZatijolius A. & G. 

There are also many varieties under latijoZius and macuZatus, under 

w,hich heZodes is kept distinct as a sUb-species. 

S06, Dr R. Orchideologische Mittelungen, 1.-111., in Fedde Rep., 

273-280, 1929. Several new forms from the Ionian Isles. He supplies 

most valuable notes and descriptions of the genus Ophrys, which he 

divides into (1) Musciferae, (2) Fucifiorae, (3) Araneiferae, (4) Euaraneiferae 

S06, (5) Sprunerianae S06, (6) Apiferae, (7) Oestriferae S06, (8) 

Euapiferae S06 and (9) Bombylifiora. A large number of new combinations 

are given. 

STANSFIELD, F. W., M.D. Fern Gazette. Vol. vi., No. 1, December 

1929. Contains an interesting note on Cystopteris alpina Desv. by 

F. W. Stansfield and S. P. Rowlands. 

THURSTON, E., C.LE. The Alien and British Plants of Par and 

Charleston Harbour, Falmouth Docks, and Easter Green, Penzance. 

Journal of Royal Soc. COl·nw., No. 76, pp. 137-206, 1928. Includes 

about 400 species and many varieties. Most, if not all of them, have 

been mentioned in our Reports and many of them are common constituents 

of our Flora. The noticeable ones include Eschscholtzia crocea

NOTES ON l'UBLIUATIONS, 1929. 

popular since formal and carpet-bedding are no longer fashionable. A 

list of the Oacti now in cultivation in the United i::ltates is 'appended, 

with an indication of their size. 

Technical Bulletin, 96, gives the Yields of Barley in the United States 

and Oanada, 1922-1926, by H. V. Harlay and others. 

Department Bulletin, 1498. Distribution of the Olasses and Varieties 

of Wheat in the United States, by J. Allen Olark and others, May 

1929. The Wheat acreage in 1919 was 73,099,421 acres-a war time 

crop. In 1924 it had sunk to 50,862,230 harvested acres of wheat, and 

the average of recent years is about 58,000,000. The acreage and the 

wheat varieties grown are given in an exhaustive manner. 

Leaflet No. 43. Wild Garlic and its Oontrol. 'l'his is our A. vineale 

which is locally and generally abundant in cornfields in the Eastern 

States. "Reproducing as it does by hard-shelled bulbs, soft-shelled 

bulbs, aerial bulblets, and .sometimes by seed, the plant is renewed practically 

continuously." Practical, though laborious, instructions are 

given to diminish the numbers of this agricultural pest. 

The Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1602. Reed Oanary Grass. This is 

our Phalaris arundinacea which is recommended as a pasture grass for 

rather swampy land. On the Pacific ooast it may furnish pasture for 

nine months in the year. Its use for hay is incTeasing, as a!.so for silage. 

which is a palatable and nutritious feed. The yield in seed is very 

variable, running from 30 to 150 pounds per acre. An average person 

will harvest from 20 to 40 pounds of seed per day, its average price 

. being from $1 to $1.50 a pound. 

The Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1591. Transplanting 'l'rees and Shrubs, 

with many illustrations. 

The Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1587. Mushroom Oulture for Amateurs. 

W"ith the disappearance of horses in Britain, the wild mushrooms are 

becoming increasingly scarce, and the Bulletin says " at the present 

time there is no substitute for hOJ'se manure on the market." 

WATSON BOTANICAL EXCHANGE OLUB. Distributor, E. O. vYallace. 

i::lecretarY, H. Stuart Thompson. The 45th Annual Report, 1929. In 

the year, 1942 specimens were distributed. 

WHITE, GILBERT, FELLOWSHIP. President, Sir R. Gregory, D.Sc. 

Hon. Secretaries, Miss W. M. Dunton and Mr G. J. B. Fox. Annual 

subscription, 7/6. 

vYILD FLOWER MAGAZINE. This continues its triumphant career 

under Mrs Dent's guidance. "Vc deeply sympathise with he!' in her 

long illness, and most sincerely hope she will soon be restored to health. 

"Ve notice with special pleasure that AIrs Foggitt, nee Gertrude Bacon, 

had a most acceptable wedding present in the shape of a very fine 

Halcyon portable wireless set, whose dulcet notes one had the pleasure 

of hearing at their charming l'esidence at Thirsk last August. Miss 

Maud Robinson contributes a pleasing paper on the Joy of a Rubbish


Heap. One may note that in the June-July number Mrs Randall Mason 

is stated to have found Orepis paludosa in Berks. We can assure her 

that this is a mistake-the plant does not grow in that county. Urtica 

pilulifera is said to be flourishing like a weed at Ashridge Park from 

seeds brought from Rome in the seventies. Mrs M. E. Bunyard gives 

a nott) on Braunton Burrows. 

WATSON, WILLIAM. Brambles of Kent and Surrey, 1928. Report 

in the London Naturalist, August 1929. A very useful paper treats of 

Bubus silvaticus, myricae, hesperi1Ls, egregius var. plllmensis, sciaphilus 

forma microphylla, Nitidioides novo sp., orthoclados, macrophyllu.s, 

Schlechtendalii, Macrophylloides, Questierii, Oolemanni, Sprengelii, 

and scanicus. 

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, TRANSAOTIONS AND PROOEEDINGS OF. Vol. 

59. Edited and published under the authority of the Board of Governors 

of the Institute. The botanical portion includes an able Revision 

of the Genus Dracophyllum, pp. 678-714, by W. R. B. Oliver, M.Sc., 

F .N.Z.Inst., Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, 21 species 

being figured. Vegetation of the Upper Bealey River Basin, with a list 

of the species, by R. M. Laing, pp. 715-730. 

ZURICH, Der Botanische Garten und das Botanische Museum der 

Universitat, for the year 1928, by Dr Hans Schinz, 1929. 

ZURICH, UNIVERSITAT. Rektoratsrede und Jahresbericht. April 

1928, bis ende Marz, 1929, pp. 65. This contains an excellent portrait 

of Dr Albert Thellung, and a memoir by Dr Hans Schinz.

OBITUARIES, 1929. 81 

OBITUARIES. 

BEOKER, WILHELM, of Kir;:;chllloser. Died October 12, 1928. Author 

of a Monograph of Viola. 

BEl\'NETT, ARTHUR. Born at Oroydon, Juue 19, 1843; died there, 

May 2, 1929. On May 2, when in London, finding that I had two hours 

to spare, I went to call on him at Oroydon, and was shocked to find that 

myoId friend had died only a few hours before, his death being due tD 

heart failure after an attack of bronchitis. Thus British Botany lost 

one, if not its most, industrious worker. 'rhere seemed to be nothing 

in his forebears to account fm' his line of research. It is another example 

of the many mental idiosyncrasies whie;h occur. He had in a 

high degree the love of work for its own sake. Just a century and a 

half before, George Don had shown the sallle power of concentrating on 

a life of toil and hardship and getting from it-as every real worker 

must-a reward in the discovery of new plants to his country. As I 

said when I unveiled a monument to his memory: "To those whose only 

standard of success is opulence, his life would be pronounced a failure; 

to those who IDve care and luxury, his career "ivould be looked upon as 

insanely miserable; yet I doubt if the wealthiest millionaire ever derived 

as much satisfaction from the accumulation of his riches as Don experienced 

in finding a new species, or if the most self-indulgent individual 

ever obtained so exquisite a pleasure as Don enjoyed in those high 

alpine journeys where, in the purest air, alllong t.he tumbled fragments 

of the hills, with the sense of unutterable calm, only broken by the soft 

sound of distant streamlets' fall, or the plaintive notes of the Ourlew 

and the Golden Plover, Don held his communing with Nature." So with 

Arthur Bennett. After leaving school, he went rnto his father's business 

of builder and house decorator, to which he eventually succeeded. 

'rhere, in the hours he snatched from his business, he devoted himself 

to studying the flora of his country and entered upon a large correspondence 

to keep himself in touch with its development. 

My own correspondence with him began in 1876 when I gave him the 

locality for Senecio paludos'us in Norfolk, which a non-botanical friend 

of mine had discovered. Although out of place here, it may be worth 

while to put the find on record. A fellow-founder of the Northampton 

Natural History Society, Mr O. Jecks, who had some connection with 

Norfolk, was going to spend a month near Filby. His interests were 

Geological, but he asked if there were any plants frUlll there that 1 

would like. The fen ragworts and Sonchus pal'ustris leapt to the eye, 

and I showed him S. arvensis and Pulicaria, saying r wanted something 

like these, explaining, as well as I could,' the salient features of the 

wished-for plants. In the autumn I went to his Northampton house 

to see the results. There was a stack of " The Times," four feet high,

86 OBITUARIES, 1929. 

,Ve 'saw a lot of intereEting thingp-Daphne Mezereu111 in beautiful 

fruit, and tho caterpillars of the Swallow-tail were abundant. 

September 15, 1909.-Many thanks for your kind letter with 

enclosure [this was the amount the members gave in answer to my 

appeal], only this idea of a Testimonial makes it exceedingly difficult 

to reply to your letter. I do not see what I have done to deserve it. 

Only what dozens of others have done but don't think J do not 

feel deeply the kindness, for T do. Trouble and worry take the grit 

out of me. 

PAPERS IN SCOTTISH NATURALIST. 

1885.-Carpx sali'/w, found by Grant beside the Wick Rlver, p. 26. 

Cala111!!(J1'ostis la'llceolata sent by J. McAndrew from Kenmore Holms, 

Kirkcudbright, and Alliu111 cnrinatu111 from Kirkcudbright coast, opposite 

St Mary Isle, by Mr F. R. Coles, p. 26. Plants of Iceland and 

the Faroes not known as British, pp. 65 and 116. Carex sa/in a, var. 

ka.ttp(Jntwnsis, sent by Grant in 1883, first named by Bennett C. pal1ldosa, 

var. KochiWlW, afterwards corrected to above, p. 68. New Scottish 

Flowering Plants, p. 180. Include Calama(Jrostis strigosa (this was so 

named by Mr N. E. Brown, but Hackel referred it to a form of C. stricta 

and Druce names it scotica) and C. e/o'l1(Jata from J. McAndrew from 

Kenmore Holmes, Kirkcudbright. 

1886.-Forms of Carex New to Scotland, p. 268. Include C. rigido., 

var. injemlllina Laest. from the Little Culrannoch, F. J. Hanbury; C. 

aq'Uatilis, var. cuspid


tains near the sea west of Almeria, and Juncus Ellmanii from moist 

places on slopes of the Cerxo de los Avantos at 1350 m. and from other 

places. The rush had previously been confused with J. squarrosus. 

FORTEScUE, EMILY ORMSBY GORE, COUNTESS FORTES CUE. Born 1859 j 

died at Castle Hill, Devon, 1929. She marxied in 1886 Lord Ebrington, 

who was then Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. There, 

in Devon, her great charm made her very popular. When, in 1904, her 

husband became Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, she at once began a great 

work of sociiJJ service. She founded in that year the Devon Nursing 

Association, and under her wise supervision, it may now be said that 

in all the large area of that glorious county she has made it still more 

splendid by providing that hardly a child is born without the ministrations 

of skilled nurses. In 1905 her husband succeeded to the Earldom, 

and that step still further added to her responsibilities. So in 1907, 

while he carried out Mr Haldane's scheme for the Territorial Forces, 

Lady Fortescue started the Devon branch of the Red Cross Society and 

other work. In 1913, Queen Mary appointed her to be a Lady of the 

Bedchamber, and at Court she was not Olily very popular but very useful, 

her knowledge of German standing her in good stead. About this 

time-she was always interested in Botany-she introduced me to the 

instructress of H.R.H. Princess Mary, M. Dussan, and several excursions 

were made in the neighbourhood of Windsor. At that time the 

Princess was interested in wild flowers and, if I remember rightly, found 

Gali.nsoga in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. I was also able to show 

Lady Fortescue the rarities of the Jersey Flora, including Orchi.s laxiflora. 

At their beautiful house of Castle Hill, where I made the acquaintance 

of Mr Trethewy, Braunton Burrows was explored, and Lady Fortescue 

showed me several stations for GeTanium veTsicol'OT, as well as 

CochleaTia in inland situations. We drove to Lady Stukeley's delightful 

garden near Clovelly, and saw masses of Scilla veTna and the naturalised 

LibeTtia fOTmosa. Then I had the pleasure of showing her mm;ses of 

Lilium pyrenaicum at Mollond. Lady Fortescue's early days were spent 

at Chilton in Buckinghamshire, which commands a very fine view of the 

vale of Aylesbury, so there was another bond of interest. Her work 

during the war was splendid" and she had the joy of seeing both her sons 

back unscathed. In 1922, when driving in a' pony carriage, she was 

upset and thrown upon her head, but with her boundless courage she 

made light of her injury. However, she never was the same again, and 

had to give up the Court appointment. Her after years were a constant 

battle against bodily pain. 

GOULDING, RICHARD WILLIAM. Born at Louth, Lincolnshire, November 

23, 1868; died there, November 9, 1929. Our member was Librarian 

and Private Secretary at Welbeck Abbey, a distinguished antiquary, and 

the author of authoritative works on portraits, miniatures, historic 

manuscripts, mediaeval local history, obscure biography, and kindred 

subjects. His lifc was one of profound and continuous labour, and


His heir had recently married the daughter of the Maharajah of Vizianagram, 

and he joined Christ Church while the Maharajah himself went 

asa research student into New College. He was greatly interested in 

general literature, in the arts and drama. He had the good fortune to 

become a grandfather during his residenee, a son being born to his son, 

Prince Kumar-I suppose a unique instance of the heir to an Indian 

Prince being born in Britain. I remember being present on the State 

occasion of the tiny child being shown, the half-frightened, but wholly 

proud little Princess, his mother, being present on that occasion. About 

that period, I gave a luncheon to the City Council on my relinquishing 

the chairmanship of the Sanitary Committee after a quarter of a century's 

service. As the Maharajah had a long settled engagement for that 

day, he was not present, but sent Prince Kumar to represent him. At 

that time there was a little pressure put upon him to study botany hut, 

beyond purchasing a drying press, .I am afraid the flowers of the field 

did not suffer from his efforts. The Maharajah was extremely kind and 

helped in many projects. His own State is a witness to that. There, 

among other things, he built a Public Library (his own was a singularly 

good one), Schools and Literary Institutes, and his death at so early an 

age, which occurred on s.s. Ranpura, two hours after the ship left BOIllbay, 

is a great loss to his State and to Britain. 

MELVILL, Dr JAMES COSMO. Born July 1, 1845; died at Meole Brace 

Hall, Shrewsbury, November 4, 1929. He was the son of James COS1l10 

Melvill, Under Secretary of State for India, and grandson of Sir J ames 

Cosmo Melvill, F.R.S., chief Secretary of the East India Company. 

Educated at Harrow, to which he has given a British Herbarium, in 

1864, in conjunction with Hon. F. C. and G. O. M. Bridgman, he prepared 

a "Flora of Harrow." A second edition, edited hy the Hev. 

\Villiam Hind, appeared in 1897. On leaving Cambridge he entered 

the business of his uncle, Edward Hardcastle, and travelled much in 

North America. Later he joined the firm of Messrs G. & B. Dewhurst. 

East India merchants, of Manchester and Preston. In 1874 he married 

Bertha, daughter of Mr G. C. Dewhurst of Lymm, Cheshire. He lCiwes 

one son and four daughters, but he lost his eldest son in 1920, 

M'elvill began his scientific career at an early age by forming a collection 

of shells when he was eight years old. To this collection he went 

on adding until it reached over 22,500 in number. He is said to have 

described about 1000 new species. He had held the office of President 

of the Conchological Society, and at the time of l:tis death he was President 

ot the Meteorological Society. He was necessarily brought into 

contact with our late Secretary, Mr Charles Bailey, at Manchester, 

and a friendly rivalry in obtaining collections existed, but they had 

one oommon object-that of enriching the Victoria College of Manchester. 

They therefore bifurcated their purchases of exsiccata, Melvill 

taking the extra European, w!1ile Bailey went in for the European. 

This resulted in the magnificent gift to Manchester of 225,000 sheets hy 

Melvill. This, we are told, will be supplemented by his very large col-


lection of 'grasses and ferns. He had also a very fine collection of 

Lepidoptera and British insects. 

When Lord Morley conferred on him the degree of D.Sc., Professor 

Lamb said: -" It is chronicled of Solomon that he spake of trees from 

the Cedar that is in Lebanon, unto the Hyssop that springeth out of 

the wall, but it is not recorded that he also knew by heart all the shells 

of the ocean from the Arctic Circle to the Persian Gulf. That double 

weight of learning was reserved for the accomplished Ilystematist, Mr 

Cosmo Melvill, and those who know him will ratify with what gracious 

modesty he sustains it." He was also an F.L.S., F.G.S., and F.Z.S. 

Melvill was one of our oldest members, having joined us in 1877. 

He was a fairly regular contributor to the Club, having sent in over 

2000 specimens. At frequent intervals he wrote to the "Journal of 

Botany: 187&-Notes on the Marine Alga.e of South Carolina and 

Florida, 127 species being enumerated. 1880-Bromus maximus from 

Jersey, and several forms of S'ilene gallica. 1882-Rubus spectabilis in 

Kent; Denta,ria bulbi/era in Kent and Sussex; Flora of Kersal Moor, 

where 240 species are enumerated. 1883-.4rum italicum in Kent, from 

the Undercliff at Folkestone. 1884-Hieraciwm argenteum in Montgomeryshire. 

1887-Agropyron violaceum in Perthshire. 1888-Arum 

italicum in Kent. 1889-New Scottish Recordll; the Rtlmex aquaticus 

recorded is R. langifalius. 1891-N otes on the Flora of the Faroes; 

about 80 species are noted. 1892--Trachelium caeruleum in Guernsey, 

a new adventive to the British Isle;;, evidently a garden escape; Species 

of Strathearn Hieracia, 22 are noted. 1898-Sisymbrium strictissimum 

in Lancashire and Cheshire. 1899-0henopodium capitatum in Carnarvonshire. 

He was a Member and President of the Literary and 

Philosophical Society of Manchester, and on November 4, 1878, he gave 

a list of over 300 species noticed on the Breidden Hills, when he thought 

he had found a new variety of Arabis hirsuta. Potentilla rupestris was 

in existence at that time. His best discovery, or rather rediscovery, 

was one of George Don's plants-Trit'iclLm alpinum Don MS., the T. 

caninum, var. bijlaTtlm Syme, E. H., xi., 177. This is in my own 

herbarium and in that of Borrer's at Kew. The plants were gathered 

on Ben Lawers. Buchanan White (Scat. Nat., 326, 1886) named the 

grass Agropyron rep ens, var. Donianum F. B. White (as species) in 

Perth. Soc. Nat. Sc., xli., 1882, under which name it stands as a species 

in our" List," but I have little doubt that it is A. vi.alaceum Hornem. 

Mr Mitten (Hooker Land. Journ. Bot., vii., 533, 1845) brought it to 

notice as Triticum bijlorum, but Dr Buchanan White (Scat. Nat., 232, 

1890) says that the paleae of the two plan..ts differ. In Donianum the 

ribs form short lateral awns, small and rudimentary at an early stage, 

becoming conspicuous as the fruit 'matures; in violaceul11 no trace of 

the lateral awn appears. Mr Melvill found it on rock-ledges of Ben 

Lawers, c. 3000 feet, in July 1878 (Jo'Url1. Bot., 57, 1887), and recognised 

that it conformed in every particular with violaceum. I believe 

Melvill and Hanbury afterwards found a single plant above Loch-na 

Chat, which they divided. I saw specimens growing in Mr Hanbury's


of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Architectural 

Association. Formerly he had practised in London, but for the last 

twenty years had confined himself to domestic architecture in Reigate 

and neighbourhood. He was keenly interested in local history and antiquities, 

and possessed a valuable collection of old maps and plans. 

For many years past he had been Secretary and had taken a leading 

part in the activities of the Reigate and Redhill Open Spaces and Footpaths 

l'rotection Society through which has been secured or saved for 

the nation some of the best ground in that lovely neighbourhood. His 

critical work on the British Flora is well known to our members and 

much of it is recorded in the " Journal of Botany" and in the annual 

"Reports of the Exchange Olubs." In 1902 he was elected a Fellow 

of the Linnean Society and served on the Oouncil from 1920 to 1923. 

From 1911 he had been one of the referees to the Watson Olub; and 

he gave freely of his time and knowledge to the local Holmesdale Natural 

History Club of which he was President last year, the South London 

Botanical Institute, of which he had been a fellow since 1913, and the 

Botanical Section of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 

of which he was President in 1928. The eleventh edition of the London 

Oatalogue, with the exception of certain genera, owes its value to 

his work, in the course of which he traced to its source almost every 

name included; and the second Supplement to Topographical Botany 

now appearing in the " Journal of Botany" he prepared in collaboration 

with the late Arthur Bennett and Prof. Matthews. But the chief 

work on which he had expended much of his time for many years past 

is still unpublished. The Flora of Surrey is already in type for a considerable 

part, and its completion from his manuscript and notes is 

eagerly anticipated by all interested in British botany. His large and 

important herbarium, which includes the herbarium of the late Arthur 

Bennett, has been bequeathed to the British Museum. 

In the course of a friendship extending over many years the present 

writer learnt to appreciate the charm and guileless simplicity of his 

personality. His transparent honesty of thought, strong common-sense 

and equable temperament kept him above any form of meanness or 

selfishness; personal ambition did not touch him and he desired nothing 

at the cost of others; his happy disposition was entirely free from 

bitterness, and I never heard him make a remark which could give 

pain. He had a keen sense of humour and a ready sympathy that made 

him a delightful companion whether on a botanical expedition or a 

short visit or even a meal in common. His enthusiasm for natural 

beauty ranged equally from enjoyment of a glorious view to intense delight 

in the perfection of tiny things. Indeed his botanical interests 

were directed to some extent by his interest in small or minute characters, 

and he has left his mark on the study of certain genera in which 

such characters have special diagnostic value. Nothing seemed to escap'e 

his notice and his critical opinion was reliable precisely because he took 

so little for granted. Only his intimate friends knew what a fund of 

exact and detailed knowledge lay behind his comments; even a short

98 OBlTUAlUES, 1929. 

note or confirmation of a naming was the result of a thorough examination 

and reference to authorities, supported by comparison with specimens 

in his own extensive herbarium. His methods were excellent, his 

judgment clear and unbiassed, and nothing slipshod or insincere ever 

came from his pen. 

A list of his principal botanical papers is given in the " Journal of 

Botany," February 1930.-W. C. BARTON. 

SCOTT, VICTORIA HENDERINA (Mrs D. H. Scott), nee Klaassen. Died 

:,;uddenlyat Oakley, Hants, January 18, 1929. She was elected F.L.S. in 

February 1905, and became a frequent attender at the meetings of the 

Linnean Society, the British Association, and the South-Eastern Union 

of Scientific Societies, where her kindly and genial personality made 

her most welcome. In 1911, at the Linnean Society, she gave a lantern 

exhibition of a new species of the fossil genus, Traquaria. She 

wrote several papers on fossil botany. Her help is witnessed to by Dr 

D. H. Scott in the Annals of Botany for 1903 in his Studies of Fossil 

Botany and in his Introduction to Structural Botany. She also made 

a detailed study of the movements of the flowers of Sparmannia africana-. 

See Trans. L,inn. Soc., 147, 1929. 

TRABUT, Dr LOUIS. Born 1853; died April 23, 1929. He was Professor 

of Natural History at the mixed School of Medicine and Pharmacy 

at Algiers. With his colleague, M. J. A. Battandier, he wrote 

a very comprehensive Flore de l' Algerie of that interesting area, and 

published a memorable account of La Tlaiu, Tuma-rix orbiculata Vahl, 

with full details of its history and its insect pests. He showed (J o'urn. 

noy. Hort. Soc., 250, 1900) that the speeies of Eucalyptus which have 

been so extensively planted in Algeria and the Mediterranean regions 

produce natural hybrids. 

TRow])R, ALICE. Born 1853; died July 1929. Alice, the surVlvlllg 

and elder sister of our member, Miss C. G. Trower, whose memoir appeared 

in our Report for 1928, died without suffering in July last, and 

thus Stansteadbury, their beautiful old-world home for over 70 years, 

remains tenantless. As one said in the short memoir of Charlotte (Rep. 

n.E.C., 851, 1928), they were the daughters of Captain Edward Trower, 

and of their mother, who was one of the Guernsey Gosselins, a l;Iotanical 

family. Their brother lived with them for many years until his death. 

Charlotte's paintings of wild flowers were exeeptionally good, and won 

three of the Grenfell Medals at the Royal Horticultural Society, and 

in her memory the Brambles were reproduced in our last Report. They 

are as good as blocks can be. Alice, in her early days, painted landscapes, 

but later on confined herself to collecting British plants for her 

;;ister to paint, and thus she had a fair acquaintance with them. Her 

memory for places was tenacious, and she had a quick eye to detect 

varieties. They divided their more prosaic duties. Alice looked after 

the house and its details. She was a wonderful needle-woman. Did


not the sisters take out the ink-Htained patch from my rose-pink Broussa 

Prayer-rug, and replace it in tint and texture like the original? Charlotte 

managed the estate and pedigree cattle, and hoth did a variety of 

work outside their domain in the lllass of philanthropic Societies which 

are like the sands of the sea in multitude. Alice acted as organist for 

the church for over half-a-century. Sometime before her sister's death, 

Alice suffered much from heart attacks: indeed, on more than one occasion, 

it was thought she could not recover. Her sister's death was 

bravely born, and she walked to the service in the church which is close 

to the Park. On the return I took her home by n short cut, gave her a 

stimulant, and she went to bed, where I left her, even cheerful. She' 

pulled herself together wonderfully, took up the household keys, and 

went on in the old way. But the gap left was too wide to be filled with 

mundane duties. She grndually weakened, and sank to rest, not through 

the fiery portals of pain, but from sheer weakness. Thus have passed 

away two most loving and lovable people-lovers of nature in the truest 

sense. Miss Alice Trower discovered liychnis l'reslii at Tantallon, and, 

in her garden, seeds of it produced numerous offspring. 

WAGER, Dr HAROLD. Born 1862; died November 17,1929, buried at 

Arncliffe. In 1886 he was a student of the Royal College of Science, 

where he had the advantage of being under Dr D. H. Scott. In 1888 

he was appointed demonstrator in biology in the Yorkshire College at 

Leeds, and with that town and with Yorkshire he has been connected 

ever since-adding to his associations by marrying \Vinifred, the daughter 

of prof. L. C. Miall. During the war he took over the direction of 

the Department of Botany in the absence of Prof. J. H. Priestley. He 

presided over Section K at the South African Meeting of the British 

Association in 1905. On the occasion of the meeting of the Yorkshire 

Naturalists' Union in Leeds in 1914, the University of Leeds conferred 

upon him the D.Sc. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904, 

and President of the British Mycological Society in 1910. His publications 

include "Memoirs on the Cytology and Reproduction of the 

Lower Organisms," "Physiology of Plants," etc. In later years he 

severed his connection with academic work, and became a Staff Inspector 

of H.M. Secondary Schools, Board of Education.

NE.W COUNTY AND OTHER RECORDS, 1929. 101 

6/6. R. LINGUA L. The usual hairy form in Askham Bog, York, 

August 1929, DRucE. 

6/7. R. FLAMMULA L., var. ANGUSTIFOLIUS Wallr. Dunsford, S. 

Devon, Miss LARTER. 

6/21. R. CIRCINATUS Sibth. Kenfig Pool, Glamorgan, Miss E. 

VACHELL. 

6/24. R. HETEROPHYLLUS 'Weber, var. TRIFIDUS Pearsall. Wood 

Walton, Hunts, with carpels nearly glabrous, DRucE, teste PEARSALL. 

6/31. R. LENORMANDI F. Schultz. A form with peculiar leaves (possiblya 

hybrid), Burton Mere, S. Lancs, June 1928, HOLDER. Named by 

PEARSALL. 

6/32. R. HEDERACEUS L. This is the R. Lenormandi of H. N. Dixon 

from Hazelbeech, Northants. See J01wn. Northants N.H.S. 

9/2. HELLEBoRus FOETIDUS L. Crawley Butts, Gower, Glamorgan, 

WEBB. 

11/1. AQUILEGIA VULGARIS L., forma CAERULESCENS Dr. Found by 

Mrs THOMPSON in Stockton Wood, Wilts, June 1929. -The plants were 

two feet high and had large flowers of a pale blue (Myosoiis) colour. 

tl2/1. NIGELLA DAMASCENA L. Beaulieu, S. Hants, 1929, GRIERSON. 

14/1. ACONITUM ANGLICUM Stapf. Wood near a stream near Burton-on-Trent, 

Derbyshire, Sir ROGER CURTIS. 

t21/1. PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM L., var. LEPTOCAutATUM. Bassett, S. 

Hants, PACK, ex RAYNER. I know nothing of it.-DRucE. 

21/2. P. RHOEAS L., var. STRIGOSUM Boenn. Wymondley Road, 

Hitchin, Herts, LITTLE. 

Var. TR0WERIAE Dr. Walton, E. Suffolk, BEMRosE. 

21/4. 1;>. LECOQII Lamotte. Burton-on-Trent, Derby, DRuOI,; 

Stevellage, Herts, stigmatic rays reduced to four, LITTLE. 

22/1. MEOONOPSIS C'AMBRICA (L.) Vig. Woody Bay, N. Devon, 

October 1929, DRuoE. 

t23/1. GLAUCIUM GLAUCIUM (L.) Karst. With varying tints of 

orange to scarlet, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, DRuoE and CURTIS. 

t28j1. ESOHSOHOLZIA DOUGI,ASII Walp. Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, 

1929, DRuoE and CURTIS.

NEW COUNTY AND OTHER RECORDS, 1929. 103 

t47/2. HESPERIS MATRONALIS L. In a meadow near Cuxham, Oxon, 

on rubbish, DRucE; in great beauty and plenty in copses at Trapp, Llan_ 

deilo, Carmarthen, WEBB. 

t48/1. WILCKIA MARITIMA Scop. Southport, Lanes, HOLDER; Kennington, 

Berks, DRUCE. 

t49 /3. SISYMBRIU1rI ALTISSIlIfUM L. Thornton Hough, Cheshire, 

1929, MAsoN; Hassocks, E. Sussex, Lady ALETHEA BUXTON; South Molton, 

N. Devon, DRucE. 

t49 /4. S. ORIENTAI,E L. Cowling, Grassington, Bamoldswick, etc., 

Yorks, FRANKLAND; Malham, Yorks, GAMBlER-PARRY; Skipwith, Yorks, 

DRUCE. 

t49/13. S. LOESELII L. Newport, Isle of Wight, LONG; Ascot, DRUCE 

and Lady DAVY. 

t49/15. S. POLYCERATUM L. Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, DRucE. 

50/1. ERYSI1I1UlIi CHEIRANTHOIDES L. South Molton, N. Devon, 

DRucE. 

t51/1. CONRINGIA ORIENTALIS (L.) Dum. Great "Vymondley, Hitchin, 

Herts, LITTLE; Sketty, Glamorgan, C. MARKS. 

"t54/7. BRASSICA TOURNEFORTII Gouan. Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, 

DRuCR, teste Prof. O. E. SCHULZ. 

t54/16. B. JUNCEA (L.) Czern. & Coss. South Molton, N. Devon, 

September 1929; Newhaven, E. Sussex, DR1TCE, teste Prof. O. E. SCHULZ; 

Shawford Railway, S. Hants, RAYNER; Tiverton, Devon, Col. WATTS. 

(BURSA.-All the plants have been named by Dr E. Almquist.) 

59/2. BURSA ABSCISSA (E. At.). Byfieet, Surrey, DRUCE. 

·59/3. B. ANGLICA (E. At.). Tenby, Pembroke, Miss TODD; Burnham, 

Somerset; Burton-on-Trent, Derby, DRucE; Wymondley, Herts, 

H. J;>HILIPS. 

59/4. B. BATAVORUlIi (E. At.). Sheepstead, Frilford, Berks; Tewkesbury, 

Bristol, "V. Gloster; Tusmore, Oxon; Mells, N. Somerset; Fawler, 

Ivinghoe, Bucks; Thorpe, Northants; Penzance, Cornwall; Avoca, Wicklow, 

DRucE. 

59/5. B. BELGICA (E. At.). Gangsdown, Oxon; Tewkesbury, W. 

Gloster, DRucE. 

59/6. B. BREMENSIS (E. At.). Bowood, Wilts; Badby, Northants; 

Kingstown; Dublin, DRueE.

10S NEW COUNTY AND OTHER RECORDS, 1929. 

103/S. SAGINA APETALA Ard., var. PRO STRATA S. Gibs. Welland, 

Worcester, TOWNDROW. 

103/9. S. REUTERI Lange. Gravel walks, Tenby, Pembroke; Tedstone 

Delamere, Hereford; wall of Cotheridge Court, Worcester, TOWN 

DROW; Burnham, N. Somerset, MILLER, teste W. H. PEARSALL. It is 

still growing at Malvern Station, where I was just in time to prevent 

it being poisoned with weed-killer. 

103/11. S. PROCUMBENS L., var. PENTAMERA (R. & F.) Dr. Santon 

Warren, Norfolk, LITTLE. 

185/1. SPERGULARIA RUPICOLA Lebel. Lizard, Cornwall, Miss 

OVERY. 

*105/3. S. SALlNA Presl. In garden gravel of Weston Park, Shipston-on-Stour, 

Warwick, RIDDELSDELL in Journ. Bot., 2S3, 1929. 

tIOS/1. CLAYTONIA SIBIRICA L. Side of brook, Kendal, WestmOl'land; 

streams close to Cartmel Fell, Lanes, 1929, LoUIS BAKER; near 

Cadby, Leicester, F. SOWTER. 

112/1. HYPERICUM ANDROSAEMUM L. Woody Bay, N. Devon, 

DRucE. 

112/7. H. MONTANUM L. Llansannor, Glamorgan, a glabrescent 

form, but with very short .hairs on under side of leaves, Miss V ACHELL. 

*112/S. H. HIRSUTUM L. Burn of Geo Firth, Orkney [4074J, JOHN 

STON in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

112/9. H. PULCHRUM L., var. PROCUMBENS Rostr., or near it. 

Clare Island, Mayo, W. CARRUTHERS and Mrs WEDGWOOD. 

112/12. H. QUADRANGULUM L. Sibford, Oxon. A few of the upper 

leaves have a. few pellucid spots but the sepals are not all rounded at the 

top as they should be in var. occidentale Franchet. It needs further 

study, DRUCE. 

*112/l3. H. DESETANGSII Lamotte. A weed in Botanic Garden, Cambridge, 

and in Mr Foggitt's garden at Thirsk, Yorks, DRUCE, teste 

DRABBLE. 

t115/2. 

ALTHAEA HIRSUTA L. Medina, Isle of Wight. LONG. 

117/1. MALVA MOSCHATA L., var. GERANIlFOLIA W. & L. 

Berks, DRucE. 

Ascot, 

117/2. M. SYLVESTRIS Brot., var. LASIOCARPA Druce. Burry Port, 

Carmarthen, Miss TODD.

114 NEW OOUNTY AND OTHER REOORDS, 1929. 

185/151. R. OORYLIFOI,IUS X VESTITUS. Sibford Mill, Oxon, August 

1929, DRUOE. 

187/2. XGEUM INTERMEDIUM Ehrh. (RIVALE x URBANUM). Abundant 

in Asham Wood, Mells, Somerset, with Lady HORNER, July 1929, 

DRUOE. 

188/2. 

394, 1927. 

VACHELL. 

.I1'RAGARIA VESOA L., var. ALBESOENS Druce in Rep. B.E.O., 

Near Bridgend, Glamorgan, Miss CONSTANCE VERITY, ex Miss 

189/2. POTENTILLA RUPESTRIS L. Still exists in Wales, although exterminated 

on Craig Briedden, DRUOE. 

189/7. 

TODD. 

P. REPTANS L., var. FLORE-PLENO. Tenby, Pembroke, Miss 

t189/11. P. NORVEGICA L. Attenborough, Notts, BULLEY; Guildford, 

Surrey, CLARKE; Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, DRUOE. 

tl89 /17. P. INTERMEDIA L. Tregornith, Cornwall, TRESIDDER, ex 

THURSTON. 

t189/22. P. ALBA L. Growing in long grass near an old over-grown 

garden (which was doubtless its origin), near Inchture, Ballinluig, Mid 

Perth, F. WILSON. 

190/2. ALOHEMILLA PRATENSIS Schmidt. Near vViddy Bank, Teesdale, 

Durham, with a form less hairy below, DRUOE. 

190/3. A. OURTILOBA Buser. Middleton-in-Teesdale, on N.W. Yorkshire 

side of the Tees, v.-c. 64, DRUCE. 

190/4. A. MINOR Huds. (FILICAULIS Buser). Talgarth, Radnor, 

September 1929, DRucE. 

190/5. A. PASTORALIS Buser. Middleton, N.W. Yorks, and Durham, 

August 1929, DRUCE. 

190/8.. A. ALPESTRIS Schmidt. Cave Hill, Antrim; Balnaboth, 

Angus, as a form vegeta; Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham, as a form 

" a lobes un peu tronques," but in other characters typical, DRUOE. 

190/13. A. FIRMA Buser. Cauldron Snout, Durham, 1884, H. T. 

MENNELL. See C. E. SALMON in ,Jo'U1"n. Bot., 16, 1929. 

190/18. A. ARGENTEA. G. Don. (OONJUNOTA Bab.). Ingleton, M.W. 

Yorks, 1882, J. WATRINS in Hb. Brit. M'Us.; Rydal Mount, Westmorland, 

Rev. STILI,INGFLEET in Hb. O. Bailey; Ullswater, J. ,\VALTON in Hb. A. 

TV. Bennett; Gatesgarth, CU.mberland, 1844, BORRER; Mael Gredha, Mid 

Perth, Dr HUGHES in Hb. F. Bossey; roadside near Thurso Cemetery,

116 NEW COUNTY AND o-THElt RECORDS, 1929. 

Denbigh, DALLMAN in N. W. Nat., 73, 1929. I saw it there over 60 years 

ago. 

*199/3. SAXIFRAGA SPONHEMICA Gmel. Fforest Fawr, Carmarthen; 

Cwm Taf Fawr, Brecon, MARKS, ex WEBB. 

199/19. S. RIVULARIS L. Ben More, Mid-Perth, C. V. MARQuAND. 

t200/1. TELLIMA GRANDIFLORA Br. Alien, N.W. America. Wild in 

Devon, Dr VOELEKER in JOUT7L. Hod. Soc., xxvi., 1928. 

t207/1. RIBES UV,A-CRISPA L. Fruit glabrous. Side of stream, Hungerfo-rd, 

Berks, Miss TODD. 

211/1. 8EDUM PURPUREUM Link. Near Trelleck, Monmouth, C. 

AMHERST. 

t211/3. S. REFLEXUM L. Abundant on a wall on a roadside near 

Oirencester, E. Gloster, DRucE; *Duhonw Rocks, Brecon, WEBB. 

214/1. HIPPURIS VULGARIS L. Tregaron Bog, Cardigan, WEBB. 

Queried by Dr 8alter. 

217/5. CALLITRICHE PEDUNCULATA DC. Leckwith Moor, Glamorgan, 

Miss V ACHELL. 

220/1. EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIlWLIUM L. Saunton, N. Devon, DRucE. 

To remove ? in Top. Bot. 

220/8. E. HIRSUTUlI'I L. Burn of Geo Firth, Orkney [4111J, JOHN- 

SION. 

Var. VILLOSISSIMUM Koch. Braunton, N. Devon, September 1929, 

DRucE. 

XMONTANUM = ERRONEUM Haussk. Waste ground, Oardiff, Glamorgan, 

Miss V ACHELL. The flowers are large as in hiTsututn, but the leaves 

are much like montanum. 

XPARVIFLORUM = INTERMEDIUM Reichb. Highbridge, N. Somerset, 

JUly 1929, DRUCE. 

220/6. E. LAMYI F. 8chultz. Garden ground, Welwyn, Herts, T. 

B. BLOW. Agreed to by Dr DRABBLE. 

220/8. E. ROSEUM 8chreber. A lax form at Glasbury, Radnor, 

DRucE. 

t220jl5. E. NUMMULARIFOLIUM R. Cunn. By the side of a burn just 

below Allcock Farm, Grasmere, 'Vestmorland, LOUIS BAKER. 

t223/7. 

225/8. 

OENOTHERA SINUATA L. Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, DRucE. 

CrnCAEA ALPINA L. Side of Wye, Brecon, Miss DIANA CATOR.

124 NEW COUNTY AND OTHER RECORDS, 1929. 

423/36. T. ADIANTIFRONS Ekm., forma. Tarbert, Harris, 1928, 

DRUCE. 

423/37. T. ALATUM Lindb. Ham, Northants, with forma; Shefford 

'Woodlands, Berb; Elsfield, Oxon; Evesham, ·Worcester,DRucE. 

423/45. T. BIFORME D. A plant resembling this to some degree, 

Carnsore, Wexford, 1928, DRUCE. 

423/46(2). T. CAPHOCENTRUM D. Seems to be this, railway by Notley 

Abbey, Bucks, DnucE. 

423/51. T. DAHLSTEDTII Lindb. Northleigh, Oxon (probably a 

form); Tubney Wood, Berks; Ledbury, Hereford; Ivinghoe, Bucks, 

DRUCE. 

423/52. T. DILATA,TUM Lindb. Tintern, Monmouth (perhaps this), 

AlIIHERST. 

423(55. T. EXPALLIDIFORME D. North Aston, Oxon (modif.); Ivinghoe, 

Bucks, seems to be this, DRUCE. 

423(61. T. HAlIIATUM Raunk. Bosahan, Helston, Cornwall (modif.); 

Ham, Northants; Byfieet, Surrey; Little Bedwyn, N. Wilts; Shefford, 

Sheepstead, Riever, Berks; Ivinghoe, Bucks; Stansteadbury, Herts; 

Ledbury, Hereford, DRUCE. 

423(64,. T. KJRLLMANII D. Byfieet, Surrey, DRUCE. 

423/72. T. LONGISQUAMEUM Lindb. Railway by Notley, Bucks; 

Kingsey, Oxon, DRUCE. 

423(78. T. PERLACINIATUM D. Byfieet, Surrey; Old Marston, Oxon, 

as forma; a strict form, N orthleigh, Oxon, DRUCE. 

423(80. T. POLYODON D. Avonmouth, W. Gloster, a small form, 

Miss 1. M. ROPER; Ivinghoe, Bucks, DRUCE. 

423(83. T. SEMIPRIVUM D. Yardley Gobion, Northants, DRUCE. 

423(83(2). T. SILESIANUM D. Husinish, Harris (modif.), DRUCE. 

423(84(2). T. STENACRUlII D. Ventnor, Isle of Wight, DRUCE. 

423/84(3). T. STENOGLOSSUM D. Byfieet, Surrey; '('he Parks, Oxford, 

DRUCE. 

423(84(6). T. SUBLARTICOLOR D. Yarnton, Oxon, DRUCE. 

42i3(88. T. UNGUII,OBUM D. Gnnavan, Argyll, Mrs MACAI,ISTER HALL.

NEW COUNTY AND OTHER RECORDS, 1929. 125 

427/3. SONCHUS ASPER Hill, var. INTEGRIFOLIUS Lej. Trewsbury, 

Gloster; Barnstable, N. Devon; Burton-on-Trent, Derby, DRucE; Spital, 

Derby, E. DRABBLE. 

Var. PUNGENS Bisch. Trewsbury, Gloster, DRUCE. 

427/4. 1:3. OLERACEUS L., var. TRIANGULARIS W allr. Spital, Derby, 

E. DRABBLE; Market Harborough, Leicester; Trewsbury, Gloster, DRucE. 

Var. CILIATUS (Lam.) Dr. Rack Wick, Hoy, 1928 [4032J, JOHNSTON. 

Var. INTEGRIFOLIUS Wallr. Lant Lane, Tansley, Derby, E. DRABBLE. 

428/1. TRAGOPOGON PORRIFOLIUS X PRATENSIS, var. MINOR. Waste 

ground, Yarmouth, E. Norfolk, with both parents. Some of the hybrids 

produced seeds, which have been sown, E. A. ELLIS. 

t431/4. LOBELIA DEBILIS L. f. 'Vaste place, Beaulieu, S. Hants, 

GRIERSON. 

t431/5. L. NATALENSIS A. DC. Martin Mere, S. Lanes, A. G. 

LANGDON and HOLDER. 

432/1. JASIONE MONTANA L., var. appr. LITTORALIS Fries. South 

portion of Yell, Zetland, S. R. DOUGLAs. 

435/3. CAMPANULA TRACHELIUM L., var. URTICIFOLIA Lej. & Court., 

teste Fraser. Mells, N. Somerset. The leaves are narrower and "more 

sharply cut than the co=on plant, DRucE. 

t435/4. C. RAPUNCULOIDES L. In sainfoin near High Down, Herts, 

LITTLE; Lathkil Dale, Derby, E. DRABBLE. 

t435j6. C. PERSICIFOLIA L. From a rough pasture near the Golf 

Links, Budlelgh Salterton, S. Devon, flowering very freely, Major ORME. 

436/2. LEGOUSIA SPECULUM-VENERIS (L.) Fiseh. Near Brandon, 

Norfolk, Miss DRUMMOND. 

438/2. XVACCINIUM INTERMEDIUlII Ruthe. East Moor, Derby, seen 

there for more than 15 years, but it does not form fruit, E. DRABBLE. 

439/1. OXYCOCCUS OXYCOCCUS (L.). Dunkery Beacon, S. Somerset, 

Major ORME. 

446/7. ERICA VAGANS L., var. KEVERNENSIS Turrill. Lizard Down, 

Cornwall, 1929, R. KEMPTHORNE. 

456/1. HYPOPITYS HYPOPITYS (L.) Dr. Sledmere, E. Yorks, Miss 

E. M. MOREHOUSE in N.W. Nat., 24, 1929. 

t462/1. CYCLAMEN HEDERIFOLIUM Ait. Roadside, Pennington, S. 

Hants, RAYNER; two plants (adventive) 011 a wild part of Cerby Moor,

128 NEW


we aId, basic or acid, LI.TTLE; Trelleck Bog, Monmouth, AMHERST; Kings 

Nympton, N. Devon, DRUCE. 

545/20. E. VIGURSII Davey, var. PALLENS Buckn. Ventongimps, 

Cornwall, RILSTONE, ex THURSTON. New to England. 

545/21. E. KERNERI Wettst. South Molton, N. Devon, DRUCE; 

Offiey, Herts, HUGH PHILIPS. 

548/6. ItHINANTHUS MONTICOLA (Stern.) Dr. Tresta, Fetlar, Zetland, 

1929, J OHNSTON; probably this at Blackhead, Co. Clare, 1928, 

DRUCE. 

549/4. MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE L., var. HIANS Druce. Woody Bay, 

N. Devon, DRUCE. 

550/4. OROBANCHE MAJOR L., var. CITRINA Druce. Biddesden, S. 

Wilts, DRUCE. 

550/10. O. MINOR Sm. (probably). On Japanese Primula, Cardiff, 

Glamorgan, Miss VACHELL. 

553/1. PIJ."!GUICULA GRANDIFLORA X VULGARIS SCULLYI Druce. 

Near Muckross, Co. Kerry, W. D. MILLER. 

*553/2. P. VULGARIS L., ? var. ALPICOLA Reichb. Miss HILDA SAJr 

MON reports that she saw on Macleod's Tables, Skye, a large-flowered 

Pinanicula which at first she thought was grandijlora, but the capsule 

was the same as 'Vulgaris. "The flowers were larger and flatter, and 

had a large white blotch in the throat." Unfortunately no specimen was 

kept, but the description recalls the plant I got in W. Ross which I 

identified as above, DRUCE. 

t555/1. LIPPIA NODIFLORA Michx. Near Southport, S. Lanes, ex Mrs 

FOGGITT. 

556/1. VERBENA OFFICINALIS L. Side of Wye, Tintern, Monmouth, 

AMHERST. 

558/1. MENTHA ROTUNDIFOLIA Huds. On;1," tip," Southport, S. 

Lanes, HOLDER and WAGSTAFFE. 

t558 /4. M. SPICATA L. Beaulieu, S. Hants, H. PHIJ,IPS. 

558/6. M. PIPERLTA L. Fyvie, N. Aberdeen, Rev. F. TURREFFi 

*Inverary, Argyll, WEBB. 

Var. SUBCORDATA Fraser. Glasbury, Radnor, 1929, DRUCE. 

558/7. M. AQUATICA L., var. MAJOR Sole. Watford, Northants; 

Castle Howard, Yorks; Three Cocks, Radnor (f. CANA, teste FRASER), 

DRUCE; Foxcote, E. Gloster, L. ABELL.

NEW OOUNTY AND OTHER REOORDS, 1929. 133· 

t588/1. PLANTAGO INDICA L. Swan age Gas \Vorks [40J, Miss TODD; 

sea wall, Hook, S. Hants, P. M. HALL. 

588/8. P. LANOEOLATA L., var. ELLIPTIOA Dr. Sea front, Walton, 

Penzance, Cornwall, 1929, DRUOE. 

Var. ALTISSIMA L. Ascot, Berks, 'ORUOE. 

588/9. P. MEDIA L., var. LANOEOLATIFORMIS Dr. Near Andoversford, 

E. Gloster, July 1929, DRUOE. 

593/4. HERNIARIA CINEREA L. Splott, Cardiff, Glamorgan, R. L. 

SMITH. 

t596/6. AMARANTUS RETROFLEXUS L. Hull, Yorks, 'WATERFALL, teste 

AELLEN; \Vare, Herts, DRtTOE. 

t596/11. A. ANGUSTIFOLlUS L. Dagenham, Essex [2712J, MELVILLE, 

teste AELLEN. 

600/1. CHENOPODlUlIl RlTBRUM L. Braunton, South Molton, N. 

Devon, DRuoE. 

Var. BLITOIDES Wallr. Disused canal, Derby, A. R. S. PROOTOR; 

Byfield Reservoir, Northants; Clattercut, Oxon, DRlTCE. 

Var. SPATHULATUM Rouy. Byfield, Northants; Clattercut, Oxon, 

DRUOE. 

600/4. C. HYBIUDUM L. Croughton, Northants, Hon. Mrs G. BAR- 

ING and DRUOE. 

600/6. 

C. MlTRALE L. Beaulieu, S. Hants, GIUERSON. 

t600/7. C. OPULIFOLIUM Schrad. Avonmouth, W. Gloster [7J, C. 

SAND WITH and J. GIBBONS. 

600/8. C. AI,BUlIl L., var. SUBFIOIFOLIUM Murr. Galashiels, Sellcirk; 

Hovingham, N. Yorks; Kennington, Berks; Didcot, Berks (forma 

FARINOSA); Skipwith, N. Yorks, teste MURR, with var. SERRATIFRONS 

Murr, DRUCE. 

Vur. J,ANOIlOUTIFORMEl Murr. Wellingborough, Northants; Walsall, 

Staffs; Selkirk; Oxford [7654J; Bradford, Yorks, DRUOE; Acton, Middlesex, 

Hb. Dr1LCe, t·este AELLEN; Avonmouth, W. Gloster [34], C. 

8ANDWITH and J. GIBBONS. 

Var. VIRIDE L. Wrentham, E. Suffolk; Bristol [34J, W. Gloster; 

Dundee, Angus; Oxford; Sark, DRUOE. 

Var. rEnlTNOlTLARE Berto!. Hovingham, N. Yorks, August 1929, 

DRuoE. 

VaI'. PAUCIDENS Murr. Towersey, Bucks, MASON. 

Vur. TIORB.\SIFORME ]I,{urr. Avonmouth, W. Gloster, C. SANDWITH. 

Var. PSEUDO-BoRBASII Murr. Marston, Oxon; St Neots, Hunts, 1913, 

DRUCE, teste AELLEN, .


t622/2. AmSTOLOCHIA ROTUNDA L. Still flowering in Surrey, H. J. 

BURKILL. 

623/2. DAPHNE MEZEREUM L. Bramdean Common, Hants, Hon. 

Mrs CHAPMAN, ex RAYNER. 

626/1. VIS0UlIf ALBU:M L., on Morus alba. In a garden near Ross, 

Hereford, Miss ARMITAGE in ,ToIlTn-. Rot., 283, 1929. On Poplll!l.l at 

Cranborne, Dorset, and Wilts. 

1628/9. EUPHORBIA VIltGATA "V. &; K. Morn Hill, \Yinchester, 

Hants, Miss "WHALE, ex RAYNER; Sacombe, Herts, LITTLE. 

633/4. ULMUS PLOTII Druee. There is at Albury, E. Herts, and 

again at .Furneux Pelham and Little Hormead, a good deal of what I 

believe is U. PZotii. The region is poor boulder clay. On boulder clay 

at Ettisley, Cambs, in the spring, I saw trees with neither flower nor 

leaf which, by their fine branching, I suspect were the same. As they 

were in a wood, the latter might be a natural station.-LITTLl". 

t634/1. HUMULUS LUPULUS L. Barren specimen in grassy ditchside, 

Firth, Orkney, JOHNSTON in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

t63.5/1. CANNABIS SATIVA L. St Peter's port, Guernsey, 1929, Mrs 

HICHENS. 

637/1. URTICA DIOICA L., var. HOI,OSERICEA Fries, or near it. Tarbert, 

Harris, 1928, DRUCE. 

t639/1. HELXINE SOLEIROLII Req. Haslemere, Surrey, growing under 

a holly hedge, Miss M. DRUMMOND. 

644/1. CARPINUS BETULus L. Alburgh, Norfolk, MASON. 

646/2. QUERCUS SESSILIFLORA Salisb. Tintern, Monmouth, AlIl- 

HERST; \Voody Bay, N. Devon, DRUCE. 

t650/2. S.UIX FRAGILIS L. Planted specimens at Redland Burn, 

Firth, Orkney, JOHNSTON in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

(SALICES named by J. Fraser.) 

650/3. S. ALBA L., vur. STENOPHYLLA Fraser. Weston-super-Mare, 

N. Somerset, DRUCE. 

Var. CAERULEA (Sm.). Andoversford, E. Gloster, L. ABELL; Trewsbury, 

E. Gloster, DRUCE. 

XFRAGILIS = VIRIDIS Fries. Kidlington, Oxon, DRUCE. 

650/5. S. PURPUREA L., f. HELIX (Sm.). Bulwell, Notts, BULLEY. 

650/8. S. CAPRF..A x CINEREA = REI0HARDTII A. Kern. Pegal Burn, 

Orkney, JOHNSTON in Tra7ls. Bot. Soc. Edin.


Holder went straight to the locality and found the Weingaertneria just 

as he had described it t.en years before. He found more on the adjacent 

sandhills. Mr Holder adds: -" I have mentioned this merely to afford 

evidence that the plant has been established at Formby for yearsmy 

note in no way deprives Mr Justice Talbot of a capital first record." 

794/1. AVENA FATUA L., var. PILOSISSIMA S. F. Gray. South Molton, 

N. Devon, DRucE. 

794/2. A. PUBESCENS Huds. Wick of Gruting, Fetlar, Zetland, 

JOHNSTON. 

795/1. ARRHENATHERUM 

BIARISTATUM (Peterm.) .Dr. 

ELATIUS (L.) Mert. & Koch, 

Lizard, Cornwall, L. B. HALL. 

var. 

795/2. A. TUBEROSUM (Gilib.) Dr. Tintern, Monmouth, AMHERST. 

t808/1. CYNOSURUS ECHINATUS L. Settle, Yorks, J. FRANKLAND. 

809/1. KOELERIA GRACILIS Pers. W. Leake, Notts, R. BULLEY. 

809/3. K. BRITANNICA (Domin). Budleigh Salterton, S. Devon, 

Major ORME; Blackland, ·Wilts, DRUCE. 

819/1. DACTYLIS GLOMERATA L., forma VIVIPARA. A curious form 

is commented on (Oard. Oloron., 164) by w. B. TURRILL. It was found 

by Mr TRESIDDER at Pentewan, Cornwal!. 

t*824/1. POA CHAIXII Vill. Balnaboth, Angus, 1929, DRucE. 

824/2. P. PRATENSIS L., var. ANGUSTIFOUA (L.). Railway bank, 

Winchest.er, S. Hants, DRucE. 

824/3. P. SUBCAERULEA Srn. Byfieet, Surrey, DEucE. 

t824/5. P. PALUSTEIS L. 

cot, Berks, DEUCE. 

Southampton, Hants, Miss TODD; Did· 

825/3. GLYCERIA PLICATA Fries, var. DECLINATA (Breb.). 

ham, E. Sussex, Mr JUSTICE TALBOT. 

Withy- 

825/4. GLYCERIA DISTANS Wah!. Under Puccinellia distans, Mr 

C. E. SALMON (lo1Lrn. Bot., 243;1929) says that some English specimens 

from Avonmouth Docks, J. W. WHITE, June 19, 1911, are the true G. 

distans, the Norge botanists keeping the Poa retrojlexa bf Curtis Fl. 

Lond. vi., t. 1, . distinct. G. distans has a shorter lower ·glume, 1.5 mm.; 

upper, 2 mm. long; whereas in retrojlexa both glumes are up to 3 mm. 

long, and they are more acute. He has retr()jlexafrom near Ridge, 

Dorset; Lewes, Frog Firle, Litlington, E. Sussex, C. E. SALMON, and 

from Hull, S.E. Yorks, C. WATERFALL. Curtis's plate in FL LWflcl. lxi., 

was published before 1791 (not 1797 as given by Mr Salmon), and in the

t832/8. 

DRUCE. 

840 (1. 

*844(1. 


TRITICUM TRIUNCIALE (L.) Rasp. BUl"ton-on-Trent, Staffs, 

TAXUS DACCATA L. Woody Bay, N. Devon, DRucE. 

EQUISETUM MAXIMUM Lam. Ilyon Valley, Radnor, WEBB. 

844/2. xE. LITORALE Kiihl. Ballymena, Co . .Antrim; 'Voodstock 

Demesne, Kilkenny; Friars Island, Limei"ick; Kilgoblin Castle, Co. 

Dublin, PRAEGER in Ir. Nat., 19( 1929.' 

844(5. E. MlIlOSUM L. Braunton, N. Devon, DRucE. 

857/4. CYSTOPTERIS FILIX-FRAGILIS (L.) Bernh. On masonry near 

Goathland, N. Yorks, F. DRUCE, ex R. J. FLINTOFF, who remarks that it 

is not recorded in District No. 4, the Esk area by J. G. Baker, so that 

this is the only known station in the Esk area. Probably it owes its 

origin to wind-blown spores. 

858(1. POLYPODIUM VULGARE L., var. SERRATUM Milde. Castle 

Martyr, Co. Cork, 1928, DRUCE. 

862 (1. TRICHOMANES RADICANS Sw. 

R. L. PRAEGER in Ir. Nat., 417, 1929 . 

t868/L 

COTTES. 

.AZOLLA FILICULOIDES Lam. 

Ox Mountain, Sligo, Miss 

l;>nlborough, Sussex, Miss

NOTES ON POTAMOGETON. 151 

therefore quite incorrect. Occasionally the leaves possess either 3 or 7 

veins. Babington (Man., 1922, 442) gives "no intermediate veins," 

which is correct, but refers to the fine parallel longitudinal veins seen in 

the leaves of P. zosteri/oli1tS and P. acutifolius. Unfortunately, however, 

students wrongly assume that there are " no other veins" between 

the 5 given. There are, of course, the usual short transverse connecting 

veins. Stipules conspicuous, white or greenish, hyaline connate ochre ate 

but soon splitting both back and front. Spikes short (10-20 mm.), interrnpted, 

with few flowers. Peduncles ± thickened upward but flattened 

like the stem, 2.5-5 cm. in length-in Scandinavian examples 

longer. Fruits small (2.2-2.5 mm. x 1.5 mm.), slightly larger than those 

of P. panonnitan1Ls which they much resemble in shape, and approximately 

the same size as those of P. pusillus but narrower at the base; 

olive green in colour, bluntly keeled, with a short beak. This species 

is still commonly confused with P. Obi1LSifoli'tIS by both British and 

foreign botanists, but it may be readily distinguished by its habit, the 

lighter colour and different venation of its leaves, its much longer 

peduncles and smaller fruits. 

P. pusillus L., Bp. PI., 1753, 127. 

Although this species is very generally distributed and usually more 

easily obtainable than any other in the genus, it is still imperfectly 

known. This is largely due to its extreme variability and also to the 

fact that collectors rarely examine the young stipules while fresh. Stem 

slender, subterete, usually broadly elliptical in section and very little 

compressed. In small plants often nearly simple, in large ones (24 in. 

or more) copiously branched. Leaves very variable in size, measured 

British examples vary horn 20-55 mm. in length and from 0.5 mm. (var. 

tennissimns) to 2 mm. (sub-sp. lacustris) .in width. The most general 

width is 1 mm. or less and the colour dark green. The leaf-apex also 

shows considerable variation. Typically the apex is more or less rounded 

and with a subacute tip, but it may be quite obtuse (sub-sp. lacustris), 

mucronate or even tapering and finely acut-e. Specimens sent by mE' 

from Poaka Beck reservoir, N. Lancs, to the late Dr J. O. Hagstrom 

were considered by him to possess more acute apices than any he had 

previously seen (f. aCldissi.mv,s Hagstr.)-see Rep. B.E.G., 1919, 841. 

The leaves of this species are invariably 3-nerved-even in var. tenuissimus. 

The 2 lat.eral veins meet the midrib about 1 mm. from the tip, 

and curve sharply inward before doing so. Transverse connecting veins 

are usually present in the b:roader leaves but may be scarce or absent in 

the narrower ones, The stipules are a most valuable character. They 

are always open and convolute, small, hyaline, cymbiform, obtuse, 6-8 

nerved, and soon deciduous but usually present in the axils of the 

leaves beneath the branches or peduncles. Spikes very rarely interrupted, 

usually short and close, 2-12 flowered. Peduncles slender not 

thickened above, very variable in length, from 0.5-3 cm. most often .but 

in very robust specimens up to 10 cm. They are always at least 2-4 

times the length of the spike. Fruits small (2-2.5 mm. long), ± ellip-

MYOSOTIS PALUSTRIS AN:::> ITS VARIETIES. 159 

adpressed hairs, sometimes almost glabrgus. Leaves usually with adpressed 

hairs, sometimes subglabrous, lower leaves oblong-lanceolate to 

ob ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, attenuated into the petiole, the upper leaves 

narrower, obtuse or subacute and usually apiculate, sessile'. Cymes leafless. 

Calyx campanulate, with adpressed hairs, calyx teeth triangular 

and about i-! of the calyx. Fruiting pedicels one to two times as long 

as the calyx, rarely longer, patent or reflexed. Corolla usually 4-10 m111. 

diam., rarely only 3 mm. diam., sky-blue, rarely white, limb flat, lobes 

emarginate. Style equalling the calyx tube or longer than the calyx. 

Nutlets ovoid, black, 1iliining, rounded at the apex, slightly bordered. 

Var. MEl>WR Kittel Tasch. Fl. Deutschl., ed. 2, p. 421, 1844. M. PALUS 

TRIS, var. VULGARIS Coss. et Germ. Fl. de Paris, ed. 1, p. 266, 1845. 

M. PALUSTRIS, var. GENUINA Godron Fl. Lorraine, ii., p. 40, 1861. 

M. PALUSTRIS, var. TYPICA Halacsy ConsI'. F,l. Graee., ii., p. 351, 

1902. M. PALUSTRIS, var. RADICANS Rouy Fl. de France, x., p. 320. 

1908, non Opiz. 

Rhizome long, stoloniferous. Stem robust, decumbent, elongated, 

hairs patent or erect-patent below, adpressed above, but sometimes the 

plant is almost glabrous. Leaves with adpressed hairs, lower leaves 

broadly oblong-lanceolate, upper leaves slightly narrower, o1tuse or subacute, 

apiculate. Cymes not long. Lower fruiting pedicels about twice 

as long as the calyx. Corolla large, 3-8 mm. diam. This is the common 

form in Britain. It is characterised by its very robust habit and stoloniferous 

rhizome and by the stem usually emitting numerous barren shoots. 

The figure in Sowerby's English Botany, ed. 3, represents the variety 

admirably. Kittel's description is very slight. I have not seen a type 

specimen, but have followed continental botanists, applying Kittel's 

name to our comlllon form. 

Forma ALBIFLORA Desportes (pro var.) Fl. de la Sa?,the, p. 169, 1838. 

Flowers white. 

Forma MACRANTIIA Beck von Mann. Fl. Nied.-Oest., p. 969, 1893. 

A form with flowers from 5-10 mm. diam. 

Forma PARVIFLORA Ledeb. (pro var.) Fl. Alt., i., p. 189, 1829. 

A form with the flowers about 3 mm. diam. and the flowers rather 

doser in the cyme. 

Localities: -Gilwern, Breconshire; Llangorse Lake, Breconshire, A. 

E. Wade (Herb. N.M.W.). Earn Shingle, M. Perth, G. C. Druce (Herb. 

Druce). 

G. Klebs (Einige Ergebnisse der Fortpfianz'ungsphysiologie in Beriehte 

de?' deutsehen botanischen Gessellschaft, xvii. (Generalversammlungs 

Heft (1900), p. 201) found that the size of the corolla of M. PALUSTRII3 

was changed by feeble light, too moist air or by too strong nutrition. 

Var. HIRSUTA Braun in Asch. Fl. Brandenb., p. 448, 1864. 

Rhizome stoloniferous. Stems 7-20 cm. high, erect or decumbent, 

very hairy below with patent hairs, hairs adpressed above. Barren shoots

162 MYOSOTIS PALUSTRIS AND ITS VARlElTIES. 

mens in the Natural History Museum of Vienna it approaches var. 

MEMOR very closely. 

Localities :-River Wye, near Chee Tor, Miller's Dale, and near Ashford, 

Bakewell, Derbyshire, C. Bailey (Herb. Manchester). 

Forma GLABRA Schur (pro var.) EnuTn. Plo Transs., p. 473, 1866. 

Whole plant glabrous. 

Forma PARVIFLORA Reichb. in Sturm Deutschl. Pl., Heft 42, 1822. 

A form with flowers about half the size of the variety and shorter 

styles. 

Var. STRIGULOSA (Reichb.) Mert. u. Koch Deutschz. Plo, ii., p. 40, 1826. 

M. STRIGULOSA H,eichb. in Sturm Deutschz. Ill., Heft 42, 1822. 

M. CAESPITOSA, var. STRIGULOSA Boenn. Prodr. Monast., p. 55, 1824. 

M. CORONARIA, var .. STRIGULOSA Dum. Bouq. litt. belge, p. 37, 1868. 

M. SCORPIOIDES, var. S·TRIGULOSA Schinz u. Keller PI. der Schweiz, 

ed. 3, ii., p. 279, 1914. M. COMMUTATA, var. STRIGULOSA Rouy 

Pl. de F1'ance, x., p. 320, 1908. . 

Rhizome horizontal, non stoloniferous. Stems erect or decumbent, 

30 cm. or more high, with adpressed hairs throughout, seldom with barren 

shoots. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, strigose, lower leaves lanceolate, 

obtuse. Cymes fairly long, 20-40 flowered. Fruiting pedicels 1-2 times 

as long as the calyx, patent or slightly reflexed. Calyx as in typical M. 

PALUSTRIS. Corolla large, lobes emarginate. Style as long as the calyx 

tube. This variety has been very much misunderstood by British botanists 

owing to the very meagre and inadequate descriptions found in 

British Floras, sometimes "hairs adpressed " being the only character 

given. Its distinguishing characters are its non stoloniferous rhizome, 

slender, erect habit, and the stem clothed with adpressed hairs. 

Localities: -Coleman Moor, Berks; Harlech, Merioneth, G. C. Druce 

(Herb. Druce). Criccieth, Carnarvonshire, C. Bailey. Buxton, Derbyshire, 

W. H. Painter (Herb. Manchester). Near Bakewell, Derbyshire, 

W. H. Purchas (Herb. N.M.W.). Throxenby Mere, N.E. Yorks, R. 

Plummer (Herb. Manchester). Inverurie, Aberdeen, F. C. King (Herb. 

N.M.W.). Gairloch, W. Ross, G. C. Druce (Rerb. Druce). Wick, Caithness, 

W. A. Shoolbred (Herb. N.M. W.). Scarmlett, Caithness; Uyea, 

Unst; Spiggie, Shetland; Huisbreck Loch-side, Shetland, G. C. Druce. 

Dray ton Fields, T. Beesley. Cashell, Co. Galway, G. C. Druce (Herb. 

Druce). 

Forma VULGATA Beck von Mann. Pl. von Nied.-Oest., p. 969, 1893. 

Upper leaves lanceolate, 10-15 mm. broad, shortly apiculate. 

Forma LANCIFOLIA Beck von Mann., l.c. 

Upper leaves linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, apicnlate, scarcely 10 mm. 

broad, usnally narrower. 

Forma GRACILIS Boenn. (pro var.) Prod7-. Monast., p. 54, 1824. Forma 

MICRANTHA Opiz in Bercht. Ok. techn. Plo Bohm., ii., 2, p. 114, 

1839. 

Corolla 4-5 mm. diam.

MYOSOTIS l'ALUSTRIS AND ITS VARIETIES. 168 

Forma NEMOROSA Bess. (pro sp.) Enum. plo Volhyn., p. 52, 1822. M. 

PALUSTRIS, var. VIRGINIA Kittellll. Deutseh., ed, 2, i., p. 421, 1844. 

M. PALUSTRIS, var. NEMOROSA Godet In. Jura, p. 478, 1853. M. 

CORONARIA, var. GLABRA,TA Dum., Lc. M. COMMUTATA, var. GLAB 

RESCENS Rouy, l.c., p.p. 

Stem glabrous with a few adpressed hairs above. 

Localities: -Cothill, Berks; Wytham, Berks, G. C. Druce (Herb. 

Druce). Dunham Massey, Cheshire, C. Bailey (Herb. Manchester). 

Var. HEICHENBACHIANA comb. novo M. l'ALUSTRIS, var. GENUINA Gren. 

et Godr .. li'l. de France, ii., p. 529, 1852, non Bouvier Fl., des A.lpes, 

p. 457, 1878. M. CORONARIA, var. REICHENBACHIANA Dum., l.c. M. 

COMMUTATA, var. GLABRESCENS Rouy, Le., p.p. 

This variety differs from var. STRIGULOSA in having the stem clothed 

with patent hairs., Gradations between this and var. STRIGULOSA, f. 

NElIfOROSA, are frequent. 

Nyman in his Conspectus and Gandoger in his Nuovo Conspectus 

Florae E1bropae give a M. LITHUANICA as a var. or sub-sp. of M. PALUS 

TRIS. I have been unable to trace a published description of this but I 

have seen Besser's specimens which are in the Herbarium of the University 

and the Herbarium of the Natural History Museum of Vienna . 

.Although the specimens are unsatisfactory they evidently belong here. 

It is not uncommon in Britain and is probably more widely distributed 

than the var. STRIGULOSA which is, judging from the material I have 

seen, more Northern in its range. 

Localities :-Bransbury, Northants, C. B. Clarke (Herb. N.M.W.). 

Bullingdon, Oxon; Wytham, Berks, G. C. Druce (Herb. Druce). Marshfield, 

Monmouth, .A. E. Wade (Herb. N.M.W.). Lymm, Cheshire, C. 

Bailey; Banks of the R . .Alt, Hightown, S. Lancs, .T. H. Lewis; Formby, 

S. L,ancs, .T. & S. Fisher (Herb. Manchester). Ince Blundell, S. Lancs, 

Rev. W. Wright Mason. Croxdale, Durham, H. E. Fox (Herb. Druce) . 

.Tenkin Stells, N.E. Yorks, .T. A. Wheldon (Herb. N.M.W.). Garslock, 

N. Ross, G. C. Druce (Herb. Druce). Cashendum, Co . .Antrim, W . .A. 

Shoolbred (Herb. N.M.W.). Castle Taylor, Co. Galway, .A. G. More 

(Herb. Manchester). 

Var. ROSULATA comb. novo M. CORONARIA, var. ROSULATA Dum., l.c. M. 

COMM1TTATA, var. ROSUI.ATA Rouy, Le., p. 32l. 

Rhizome short nOl1-stoloniferolls. Stem erect and short. Lower 

leaves forming a rosette. 

Var. ELATIOR Schinz u. KelIer Fl. der Scll1ceiz, ed. 3, ii., p. 279, 1914. 

M. ELATIOR Opiz in Bercht. Ok. techn. Fl. Bohrn., ii., 2, p. 115, 

1839. 

Rhizome short, non-stoloniferous. Stem erect, up to 90 cm. high, 

glabrous or with a few s0attered. adpressed hairs. Cauline leaves large, 

lingulate, obtuse (the apiculus gives the leaves the appearance of being 

acute), rather longer in proportion to their breadth than in typical M.

166 PANSY NOTES. 

V. lutea Hudson, d. polychroma (Kerner). Dr Clausen (in litt.) tells 

me that he thinks polychroma Kerner should be placed in the Saxatilis 

series and suggests that in Derbyshire we may have a form of lutea 

paral:lel to Kerner's polychroma. At present 1 can only say that our 

polychroma is a lutea, panAY, grading into ordinary l,tdea, and that it 

seems to me to be identieal with polychroma Kerner. Formerly 

(J oum. Bot. Suppl., 1909, p. 10) I had placed it in the Saxatilis series . 

. There remain for eonsideration the" Names omitted as uncertain or 

synonymous" (List, p. 14) and the additions in Rep. B.E.C., 1928, p. 878. 

The omissions from List, ed. 1, are as follows:- 

V. banatica Kit. This name seems to have got into our Flora when 

Borbas so named a plant from Stayne Wood, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 

collected by C. E. Palmer in 1900. As I have pointed out fully in Journ. 

Bot., February 1927, p. 47, Borbas was entirely mistaken. F. N. Williams 

rightly recognised that the plant was unnamed and called it V. 

tricolnr var. vectensis (F. N. Williams Prod. 10, 1912). It is the V. 

vaTiata c. vectensis of the List. The name banatica is rightly omitted 

in ed. 2. 

V. confinis Jord. The undermentioned sheets are forms of lepida. 

V. confinis Jord. ! . Billot, No. 1825, in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

V. con/inis Jord. Fl. Sequaniae exsicc. 17, in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

and the corresponding sheet in Herb. Imp. College of Science, S. 

Kensington. 

Indeed the only properly based name of general application to the 

British forms of the Saxafilis series is lepida. 

V. gracilescens Jord. The specimen in Herb. Kew from Seringe's 

herbarium, labelled gracilescens DC., is not Jordan's plant, while V. 

gracilescens Jord. of Schultz's Herb. Norm. is quite unlike Jordan's 

figure of gracilescens. This name ought never to have appeared in 

British Lists and is rightly omitted. 

V. mentita Jord. ap. Billot Fl. Gall. et Germ., 2021, in Herb. Brit. 

Mus. seems to be indistinguishable from rtlralis. Jordan's specimen of 

ruralis in Herb. Imp. College makes this name secure, while mentita 

Jord. is somewhat doubtful. 

V. Paillouxi Jord. and V. Sagoti Jord.-Jordan himself (Obs., ii., 

p. 36) expresses some doubt as to the distinctness of these plants. V. 

Sagoti Jord. in Herb. Deseglise, 17 Mai 1862, Haute Savoie, in Herb. 

Imp. College, is a stout, large-flowered conternpta, while V. Paillouxi 

Jord., in the same herbarium, resembles a yellow-flowered Lloydii. Both 

names may be ignored as unsatisfactorily based, while both conternpta 

and Lloydii are beyond dispute. 

V. Provostii Boreau (cited as ofR. & F. in the List) is described by 

Boreau Fl. du Centre, ed. 3, ii., 82, is an annual. His'own specimen in 

Herb. Imp. College is yellow-flowered lepida, as is also Gaston Genevier's 

plant, so labelled, from Vendee in Herb. Mus. Brit. That the plant is 

perennial seems to be shown clearly, at least in the second specimen mentioned, 

and the question arises whether Boreau wrongly described

BRAMBLE NOTES. 169 

or roundish, tapered to a short broad point; the base broad, truncate 

or subcordate. On. 5-nate leaves the terminal leaflet is narrower and 

more oblong. 

The flowering branch is densely felted and villous, and has a few 

long, slender deflexed prickles under the panicle. The panicle in large 

examples is much branched, broad at the top, the branches short or 

moderately long, patent and equal; the lower panicles are tapered, lax 

and leafy; small panicles are simply racemose. The stalked glands and 

fine prickle-bristles exceed the felt of the panicle branches; the pedicels 

are very prickly. Flowers rather large, rose pink; calyx segments ending 

in long leafy tips which stand erect on the bud in the, manner of 

R. rosacellS. Stamens 'red, eXGeeding the styles. Young carpels glabrous. 

R. MACROPHYLLUS, var. BOULAYI Sud. \ 

On Bostal Heath, N.vV. Kent, I have collected a striking variety of 

R. rnacrophylhls, which I identify as above. The stem is greyish green 

and very glaucous.' The leaves are 5-nate, subdigitate, and the leaflets 

depart altogether from the shape of those in the type. The terminal 

leaflets are ob ovate-oblong, with a cuspidate point and rounded base, 

and are about four times as long as their stalk. Beneath they are 

slightly discolorous, becoming pale green, and have soft shining hairs 

and prominent pectinate veins. Stalks of the basal leaflets 3 mm. long. 

The margins are unevenly and unequally dentate-serrate, the principal 

teeth patent or rep and. The prickles in the panicle are small, numerous 

and curved. There are a few stalked glands on the stem and in the 

panicle. Fruit normally produced. 

The bramble issued in the Set of British Rubi to represent R. rnacrophyllus 

is this var. Boulayi also. It is stated in the Handbook to be "not 

typical." 

R. GLADRATUS Bab. 

In the preface to the Handbook it is stated that Dr Focke has suggested 

the name R. amrnobitlS for a bramble colIeced by Mr Druce in 

North Wales in 1899. By the kindness of Dr Druce I have seen the very 

specimen that Dr Focke named; and it is, in my opinion, certainly Babington's 

R. macrophyllus, var. glabratus. 

Babington stated that his knowledge of this form was derived almost 

entirely from specimens collected by Watson near Long Ditton, Surrey. 

These can hardly have beenR. glabratus, which is not met with in Surrey; 

but were most likely, I think, R. Bakeri, which grows at Long Ditton. 

r saw R. glabrat·us last summer in several spots around Llanberisa 

locality which Babington gives for it-Gm'! r give my notes here to 

supplement the meagre desC'riptions hithprto available. 

Stem purple, furrowed, moderately pubescent, bearing 'minute stellate 

hairs and sessile and sub sessile glands. Prickles slender, narrowbased, 

moderate to weak. Leaves yellowish green, 5-nate and incompletely 

5-nate, rather plicate, strigose above, rather thickly pubescent 

beneath at first but not discolorous; finely irregularly denticulate-ser-

170 BRAMBLE NOTES. 

rate. Terminal leaflet ob ovate to suborbicular, subcuspidate, base emarginate 

or sub cordate ; twice as long as its stalk. Basal leaflets large and 

broad, imbricate, their stalks 2 mm. long. Petiole widely grooved below, 

bearing hooked prickles and many sessile glands; stipules linearlanceolate. 

Flowering branch blunt-angled, glabrous below. Panicle cylindrical, 

upper branches 2-3 flowered, divided about half-way, pubescent, prickles 

weak, declining dr falciform. Pedicels with many short and nearly 

straight prickles. Petals fully pink when they unclose, slightly incurved, 

broadly obovate, notched and clawed. Stamens white (redderiing), equalling 

the greenish styles; at first erect then recurved, not conniving apparently. 

Anthers cream-coloured, glabrous. Calyx and bracts with 

stalked glands. Calyx white-felted, segments glandular near their tips, 

aciculate, loosely reflexed after flowering, then patent; at length completely 

reflexed. 

R. BAKERI F. A. Lees. 

Sndre erroneously attributes to this a glabrous stem and round-based 

leaflets. A good description is given in E.B. StLpp.; the panicle is. 

however, broader and more compound than there described. The following 

notes will enable it to be distinguished from R. glabratus. 

Stem rather considerably hairy and much branched. Leaves digitate, 

thickly pubescent and slightly discolorousbeneath; unevenly closely dentate 

with rather deep ovate teeth; petiole bearing strong and rather 

large curved prickles. Terminal and intermediate leaflets with long 

falcate and cuspidate points, and eordate or subeordate bases. 

Panicle with ascending, cymose, 7-flowered middle branches, broad 

brads and bracteoles and subdiscolorous leaves. Rachis felted and -villose, 

with long and strong, declining and falcate p:rickles, and many sessile 

glands. Peduncles as a rule unarmed or' nearly unarmed. Petals 

distinctly paler outside, and with a short broad claw. Stamens white, 

at first not much longer than the green styles but usually lengthening 

a good, deal and conniving over the styles. Calyx segments greenish 

grey with a white edge, mucronate, broader than in R. glabratus. Fruit 

small, subglobose. 

R. MERCICUS Bagnall. 

Sudre says that R. glabratus appears to him to be simply a variation 

of R. mercicus. The differences are, I think, rather considerable, and 

quite warrant the two species being maintained. The following description 

of R. mercicus should be compared with that given above of R. 

glabratus. 

Stem green to brown and purple, furrowed only towards the apex, 

with simple or clustered hairs and occasional short scattered acicles and 

short-stalked glands. Prickles broad-based, numerous, rather unequal, 

declining or falcate. Leaves rather large, 5-nate, pedate, leaflets contiguous, 

green and shortly hairy beneath, teeth ovate, somewhat double 

towards the apex of the leaflets. Petiole with occasional short acicles 

and short-stalked glands near the base; stipules linear-lanceolate, with

172 BRAMBLE NOTES. 

Sudre as R. viridicatus. I have not seen this as a living plant, but I 

have seen specimens from !ford Bridge, and also 'in Rb. Druce specimens 

from Barton Common, S. Rants, collected by L. Cumming in 1917, 

and from Norden Common. 

The stem is nearly glabrous and furrowed. Leaves digitate or pedate, 

glaBrous above: at first pubescent, then green and glabrescent beneath; 

shallowly, subequally denticulate. LeaHets broad and imbricate. Petiole 

with hooked or falcate prickles and eglandular stipules. TerminalleaHet 

sub orbicular, cuspidate, base emarginate, twice ail long as its stalk. 

Basal leaHets oval, subsessile, small. 

l;'anicle pubescent, eglandular, with rather many falcate prickles. 

Pedicels short. Upper panide leaves simple, grey beneath. Calyx segments 

greyish felted, refiexed in fruit at first, at length clasping. Young 

carpels glabrous. 

This is a smaller plant than R. oXllanchus, and has smaller leaves 

and a more condensed panicle. It has been confused with R. mercicus 

and R. leucandrus, as well as with" R. nemorali.s," R. plicatus and R. 

dumnoniensis.

ANDROMEDA POLU'OLIA IN NORTH YORKSHIRE. 

THE STATUS OF ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA IN NORTH 

YORKSHIRE. 

R. J. FLINTOFF, F.C.S. 

In the Report of the Botanical Society and Exchange Club for 1928, 

vol. viii., part v., p. 630, I drew attention to the discovery, on the 9th 

June 1924, of one plant of Andromeda near Goathland by Miss H. V. 

Medlicott, and promised that further search would be made. I stated 

also that Baker in his "Flora of North Yorkshire" gives two stations 

only for this plant-one on Strensall Common in No. 1 District, the 

Ouse and Foss area, and the other in or near Balderdale in No. 9 District, 

the West'Tees area. Since 1924 many attempts have been made 

to find more growths of this plant but without success until 1929. In 

the light of further experience the reason of these failures is easy to 

understand, and in this respect it is not necessary to offer any explanation. 

On the 22nd May 1929 I received a letter from Captain W. S. Medlicott, 

of Partridge Hill, Goathland, in which he wrote: "To-day I 

have had a walk with Jack Rowland CMr J. Rowland of Goathland) looking 

for birds. We ate our lunch where Andromeda had been found. I 

told him of my frequent hunts for the Marsh Andromeda. Five minutes 

later he spotted a plant. On looking round we found at least a dozen 

plants, but rather poor specimens. 

A few days afterwards, May' 27, Mr W. Raw and I visited this 

station for Andromeda, and after making careful investigation I have 

no hesitation in stating quite definitely that here it is well established 

and widely distributed. We counted twenty plants in a limited area, 

and then did not trouble to count any more, but we saw more plants 

further away. Therefore the station near Goathland for Andromeda has 

now been well determined, and it is an important one in North Yorkshire. 

It seemed desirable to obtain reliable data relative to the two 

stations recorded by Baker, and after no small trouble and many careful 

enquiries I feel I have learned all the information I can obtain. 

THE STRENSALL OOMMON STATION. 

I am much indebted to my friend, H. J. Wilkinson, of York, the 

well-known botanist, for the facts which ,he has given to me. On the 

31st of May 1929, Mr Wilkinson wrote :-" Andromeda polilolia still 

grows on Strensall Common, but I am sorry to say it is, in my opinion, 

on the verge of extinction. In 1881 and 1906, when the members of 

the British Association visited York, I took some of the Botanists to 

Strensall. In 1881 five stations were noted, and in 1906 three stations. 

In 1881 the' Government acquired Strensall Common and Towthorpe 

Common for military purposes. In 1914-18 thousands of troops occupied 

the Common, cutting trenches, making earthworks, altering the surface 

173

174 ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA IN NOltTH YORKSHIRE. 

in other ways and the character of the land by drainage. In 1879 I 

could have counted scores of plants of AndTameda. Now I might search 

all day and not get a plant from the only station I know there. I could 

say the same of Terrington Carr, only more so. I should not expect to 

find it there." In another letter, dated 7th of June, Mr Wilkinson 

made this statement: -" But I must come to the conclusion that A.ndTo- . 

meda polilalia on Strensall Common is practically extinct." In a conversation 

I had with Mr Wilkinson a few weeks later at Goathland, 

he told me he would not go so far as to say an odd plant or even a 

few specimens could not be found at Strensall, but he would be '\Tery 

surprised to learn it was in any sense established there, and knowing 

how plentiful it used to be he could only confirm his opinion that it 

was now practically extinct. On the 23rd September 1929, Mr Wilkinson, 

after learning that four specimens had been found on Strensall 

Common wrote me a long letter, from which I take the following remarks: 

-" To say 'that AndTomeda on Strensall is extinct when four 

specimens have been reported in ten years will be considered by some 

a misrepresentation. But I still consider it a dying or extinct species 

OIl Strensall. Forty years ago I could have counted two or three hundred 

vigorous plants. Now I should think myself very fortunate to 

find a single dwarfed specimen." 

Dr John S. Gayner, of York, has very kindly supplied me with information. 

On the 28th September 1929 he writes :-" Personally, I 

have never found the plant, but I have been shown the plant apparently 

referred to in the first edition of Baker's' 'North Yorkshire," and 

generally visit the station every two or three years to note the condition 

of the plant. I saw it last year, perhaps covering an area of 'six square 

feet, and am of the opinion that this represented a large relative increase 

on the amount of the plant to be seen in that station four years 

ago. Further, I have been recently informed by an excellent field 

botanist, perfectly fa:r;niliar with AndTomeda, that he has found four 

small plants of it in another part of Strensall Common." And subsequently, 

on 2nd October 1929, he gave me a definite expression of 

opllllOn. "On Strensall Common I should certainly judge AndTomeda 

to be a vanishing species. Baker's plant on the Stockton side of StrensaIl 

was going, but revived under the influence of the cold summers 

from 1922-1927. And I expect these are responsible for the appearance 

of the new plants. Whether they will endure after the heat and drought 

of this summer is very doubtfu1." 

In the summer of 1929 Mr H. Britten, of York, found four small 

plants of A ndTomeda on Strensall Common. . Mr Britten has been very 

kind in writing to me several long and very interesting letters, and I 

regret very much that limitations of space prevent my including them 

in their entirety in this note. I shall therefore content myself by quoting 

the following pertinent extracts: -4th October 1929-" I know 

nothing of Baker's locality, but I learn from Dr Gayner that the plant 

still occurs there. I have looked for it frequently on Strensall, but I 

did not find it until this year when I discovered several plants in one·

176 ANDROMEDA I'OLlFOUA IN NORTH YORKSHIRE. 

in trying to collect reliable data, yet it is quite possible my information 

is far from complete. I shall, therefore, be extremely obliged if anyone, 

who is acquainted with the plant in the North -Riding, will either confirm 

or correct my statements. I make this request because it would 

appear this procedure is the only likely method whereby further particulars 

can be ascertained. From a botanical standpoint the subject 

is important, and I should like to add that because of the rarity of this, 

plant in North Yorkshire those of us who know where it grows will not 

give to anyone more detailed particulars than are contained in this 

note. We desire to protect the plant.

THE BRITISH EROPHILA. 177 

THE BRITISH EROPHILA. 

G. CLARlDGE DRUOE. 

Mr J. Gilbert Baker, our one time Secretary, in the Report 0/ the 

l'hirsk Botanical Exchange Club (see Phytologist, 501, 1858), gave brief 

diagnoses of E. brachycarpa, E. glabrescens, E. hirtella, E. stenocarpa 

and E. maiuscula, the last two being named by M. Alex. Jordan himself, 

who was a most careful and intensive student of the micro-forms of this 

and of other critical genera. In the Diagnoses D' Especes N ouvelles ou 

Inconnues, pp. 207-244, 1864, he describes 53 species. These he cultivated 

for many years, and found that they bred true. In 1866-8, Mm. 

Jordan and Fourreau produced the magnificent volume of Icones ad 

Floram Europae, with 200 coloured figures, at 300 francs, which contained 

5 plates of 20 figures of Erophilas. These are cited in the forthcoming 

account. 

Rouy and Foucaud (Flore de France) group all the 56 JOl'danian 

species from France under eight names in the genus Draba. 1- 

MAJUSCULA, under which are occidentalis, brevi/olia and curtipes. 2- 

LANCEOLATA (KROCKERI Andrz. and STENOCARPA Jord.), with the Jordanian 

tenuis, subtilis, psilocarpa as varieties, and macrocarpa B. & 

H. as a form. 3-LEPTOPHYLLA, with sparsipila, vestita, afjinis, cinerea, 

propinqua as varieties, and two fo-rIDS, dentata and /urcipila, including 

serrata. 4-VULGARIS, including brevipila and rigidula as varieties, 

and clavi/ormis, cuneijolia and Ozanonis as forms. 5-SPATHULATA 

Hoppe (OBOVATA J OJ·d.), with varieties conjinis, Andegavensis, Lugdunensis, 

/allacina, Bardini, breviscapa, Cabillonensis, lucida, subintegra, 

and three forms, mwricola, pyrenaica and rurivaga. 6--PRAEoox, with 

varieties, brachycarpa and decipiens, and forms, subrotunda and 

Revelieri. 7-GLABRESCENS, with varieties medioxima, micrantha, 

glabrescens = oblongata, rubella, procerula, campestris, ambigens, 

spathulijo'Zia, Vivariensis, chlorotica, lepida, patula and iodophylla 

Briquet, and 2 forms, virescens and subnitens. &--HIRTELLA, with var. 

corsica. 

In the Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France, Xll!., n. 5, 1913, 

M. Isidore Maranne enumerated 68 species (see Rep. B.E.C., 88, 1914), 

where a summary and clavis are given, from which we reprint a part. 

He grouped them under 8 sections, following Rouy and Foucaud :-1, 

GLABRESCENS; 2, HIRTELLA; 3, PRAECOX; 4, SPATHULATA; 5, VULGARIS; 

6, LEPTOPHYLLA; 7, LANCEOLATA; 8, MAJUSCULA.

180 THE BRITISH EROPHILA. 

of which only 3 are recorded for Britain-vERNA, BOERHAAVII and PRAEcox. 

He gives the following description:- 

A. Folia spatlmlata. Ovarium ovulis 24-60. Semina 0.3-0.5 =. 

longa. 

a. Folia supra pilis minutis tenuibus bifurcatis et stellatis 

obtecta. Semina 0.3-0.4 mm. longa. 

a. Siliculae elongatae, obverse lanceolatae vel lineares. 

Ovarium 44-60 ovulatum. 

1. Siliculae oblanceolatae, sCilicet basin versus attenuatae, 

in pedicellis elongatis ....................................... 1 E. verna. 

n. Siliculae lineares, aeguilatae, in pedicellis pro rata 

brevibus ..... ................................. . ....................... 2 E. macrocarpa. 

b. Siliculae abbreviatae, breviter obovoideae vel suborbiculatae. 

Ovarium 24-48 ovulatum .......................... : ... 3 E. Boerhaavii. 

b. Folia supra pilis majusculis crassiusculisque plerisque 

simplicibus nonnullis bifureatis + intermixtis ves- 

tita. Semina 0.5 mm. longa. Ovarlum ovulis 24-40. 

1. S;liculae breviter obovoideae ................................... . 

n. Siliculae anguste ellipsoideae vel oblongo-lineares .. . 

B. Folia anguste linearia. Ovarium ovulis 10-16. Semina 0.75- 

. 1 n1ffi. longa. 

a. Siliculae obovoideae, 3-5 mm. longae, 2-2.5 mm. latae ... 

b. Siliculae anguste ellipsoideae, 4-5 mm. longae, 1.5-2 mm. 

latae ............................................................................ . 

4 E. praecox. 

5 E. setulOsa. 

6 E. minima. 

7 E. GHgiana. 

Our regretted' member, C. E. Salmon, with E. Gilbert Baker, gave 

the results of Prof. Schulz's examination of the British Erophilas in a 

valuable paper which appeared in the J owrnal of Botany, 234, 1928, 

when Prof. O. E. Schulz named novo var. Salmonii from Essex. 

EROPHILA VERNA. 

EROPHILA VERNA E. Meyer in Preuss. Pfianz., 179, 1839 = DRABA VERNA 

L. = EROPHILA VULGARIS DC. Syst., ii., 356, 1821. S(;hulz 

Mon. 345, fig. 33, a-no 

Europe, Asia, N. Africa, N. America, Japan. 

Scapi singuli vel complures, erecti, sed later ales adscendentes, fructiferi, 

10-20 cm. longi, inferne pilis brevibus, C. 0.25 mm. longis, stipitato-bifurcatis 

et stipitato-substellatis, densiuscule obsiti, paltide 

violacei, superne glabrescentes, virescentes. Folia late 

lanceolata vel elliptica, apice acutiuscula, margine integra vel 

apicem versus ± profunde 1-2 dentata = f. pinnatifida Wirtgen 

at:. O. Kuntze Tas'chenfi. Leipzig, 181, 1867, ad basin in petiolum 

latul11 sensim angustata, 1-1.5 cm. longa, supra medium c. 

0.5 cm. lata, praesertim supra et margine pilis bifurcatis stellatisque 

densiuscule obsessa, ad petiolum pilis simplicibus longioribus 

perpaucis ciliata, interdum basin versus rubro-maculata 

vel ol11nino rubescentia. Racemi 10-20 fiori. Pedicilli fioriferi, 

6-3 mm. longi, erecto patentes, capillares. Sepala 2 mm. longa, 

dorso pilis simplicibus manifestis, 0.5 mm. longis et stipitatobifurcis 

hirta, alba, tandem violaceo-marginata vel plane violacea=f. 

rubrocalyci'fla O. Kuntze Taschenfi. Leipzig, 181, 1867. 

Petala 2.5 mm. longa. Stamina 1.5-1.75 mm.; antherae 0.25


mm. longae. Ovarium ovulis 50-60. Siliculae in pedicillis ex 

axi valde flexuoso erecto patentibus vel recurvatis elongatis 

(4.5-) 2.5··1 em. lungis imis saepe non procul a foliorum rosella 

ortis continuae. oblongo-ellipsoideae, 6.5-9 mm. longae, compressae, 

supra medium 2-2.5 mm. latae, apice rotundato vix 

styliferae, basin versus angustatae, viridulae, nonnumquam 

rubescentes, raro subcontortae. Semina numerosa, minima, 

ovoidea, 0.3-4 mm. longa. 

Jersey. St Aubin's, Piquet, 1850, in Hb. DrjJ,ce: 

17-Surrey. Witley [1220J, 1894, E. S. Marshal! in Rep. B.E.C., 434, 

1894, as vulgaris; 'Woking, Miss M. Saunders in Hb. Druce; 

Gomshall, 1893, C. E. Salmon, see Jo'Ur'fl. Bot., 234, 1928. 

20-Herts. Fells' Nurseries [62J; between Wilbury Hill and Ickleford 

[70J, .T. E. Little in Rep. B.E.C., 449, 1913. 

22-Berks. Hinksey, 1882, Druce. 

23-0xford. Chinnor, 1884; Wigginton, 1915, Druce. 

24-Bucks. Ivinghoe Beacon, 1923, Druce. 

29-Cambridge. H. Baber, 1837, ex O. E. Schulz, with mi'1J,jLiissima. 

32-Northants. Potter's Pury, 1876, Druce. 

33-Gloster E. Kineton Thorns, H. J. Riddelsdel! in Rep. B.E.C., 557, 

1916. 

35-Monmouth. Portskewet [2828J, mixed specimens, E. S. Marshal! in 

·Tourn. Bot., 238, 1928. 

43-Radnor. Llandrindod Wells, Miss C. E. Palmer, 1898, in Hb. DnLce, 

ad f. minutissima (Griseb.) spectans, O.E.S. 

57-Derby. Castleton, Drnce. 

90-Angus. The Lurgies, near Montrose [52J, Corstorphi'fle. 

lOS-Sutherland W. Near Loch Loyal IJodge, Dr'Uce. 

Dublin. Portmarnock, 1869, Carroll. 

Forma RUBRO-CALYCINA O. Kuntze. 

ll-Hants S. Winchester, Druce. 

24-Bucks. Lane End, 1896, Drtt.ce, ad var. wbillonensis (Jord.) O.E.S. 

vergens. 

A. Section. 

FLEXUOSAE Rosen in Cohn, Beitr. BioI. PH., x., 392, 1911. Stem 

slender, gracile, the fruiting portion distinctly serpentine-flexuous. 

\Tar. BARDINII (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. BARDINII Jord. Diag., 229, 1864. 

Jord. and Fourr. Ic., i., t. iv., fig. 13, 1866 .. Petals 2.5 mm. x 

1.5 mm., rose-coloured. Pod 5 mm. x 2-2.5 mm. Leaves subentire 

or very' slightly toothed, 9 mm. x 5.6 mm., oblanceolate, 

narrowed at base. 

19-Essex N. Elmstead [1399J, G. C. Brown in Rep. B.E.C., 808, 1919. 

as affinis, in Hb. Druce; Ross, near Saffron Walden [49141B], 

C. B. Olarke in Hb. Deless.; Colchester, G. C. Brown in Hb. 

Deless.; Alphamstone, G. C. Brown in Rep. B.E.C., 883, 1915. 

23-0xford. Yarnton [41211J, 1915, Druce.


Var. AFFINIS (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. AFFINIS Jord. Diag., 236, 1864. 

Petals pale rose, 3 mm. long. Pod 6 mm. X 2 mm. France 

only in O. E. Sehulz. 

19-Essex. Sea wall by Colne [1938], G. C. Brown in Rep. B.E.C., 826, 

1922, as rnajusc1da, in Hb. Druee. 

20-Herts. Ashbrook St Ippolyts [83 p.p.], J. E. Little in Hb. Druee. 

35-Monmouth. Portskewet [2828], mixed specimens, E. S. Marshall 

. in Hb. Druee. 

[Var. GI,ABRA (Beck.) O. E. Schulz = E. VULGARIS, f. GLABRA Beck. Fl. 

Nied.-Oestr., 472, 1892. Stem and sepals glabrous. Lower 

Austria only.] 

[Var. PINGUIS (T. M. Fries) O. E. Schulz = DRABA VERNA, b. PINGUIS T. 

M. Fries in Thed. Bot. Not., 49, 1852. Leaves fleshy, with rigid 

short hairs. S. Sweden, Smaland.] 

[Var. GLABRESCENS O. E. Schulz. Leaves shortly pilose. Near San 

Isidro-Leon, Spain, 1864, E. Bourgeau.] 

Var. CLAVIFORMIS (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. CLAVIFORMIS Jord. Diag., 

230, 1864 = E. OZANONI Jord., Le., 231, and Jord. and Fourr. 

le., t. v., fig. 17. petals 3 mm. long. Upper leaves often deeply 

dentate. France and Switzerland. 

31-Hunts. Warboys Turf Fen, 1880, A. Fryer in Hb. Druee. 

Var. cu!'mIFoLIA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. CUNEIFOLIA Jord. Diag., 230, 

1864. Jord. and Fourr. Tc., t. v., fig. 18. Schulz, fig. 33. Leaves 

longly attenuate at base. 

7-Wilts N. Burridge Heath, C. P. Htlrst in Rep. B.E.C., 212, 1920, 

as verna, in Hb. Druee. 

23-0xford. Hook Norton to Wigginton [6], H. J. Riddelsdell in Rep. 

R.E.C., 1914, in Hb. Druee. 

66-Durham. Near High Force [4466] up to 1600 feet, E. S. Marshall 

in Rep. B.E.C., 448, 1928, as vireseens, in Hb. Druce. 

Var. SALM-ONI O. E. Schulz in Journ. Bot., 235, 1928. Folia spathulata; 

lamina oblongo-elliptica, acutiuscula, integra vel parcissime dentata, 

in petiolum aequilongum vel longiorem angustata. Differs 

from cunei/alia in its shorter petals. 

19-Essex N. Wall between Great Saling and Bardfield, April 14, 1925, 

C. E. Salmon in Journ. Bot., 236, 1928. 

Var. SPARSIPILA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. SPARSIPILA Jord. Diag., 235, 

1864. Leaves with only scattered hairs. France, Schulz. 

17-Surrey. Reigate, C. E. Salmon in Journ. Bot., 236, 1928. 

20-Herts. St Ippolyts [83], J. E. Little in Rep. B.E.C., 117, 1914, in 

Hb. Druee.


32-Northants. Dry places, Kirby Hall, 1916, G. Chester in Rep. 

B.E.C., 557, 1916, as praecox. 

65---Yorks N.W. Near High Force [4465J, 1918, E. S. Marshall, as 

virescens. See Jo'Urn. Bot., 236, 1928. 

66-Durham. Near High Force [4465J, 1918, E. S. Marshall, as virescens. 

See Jo'Urn. Bot., 236, 1928. 

[Var. STELLIGERA (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. STELLIGERA Rosen in Cohn, 

loc., 392, 1911. Petals medium size. Leaves few, large. Breslau, 

Germany.J 

[Var. VIOLACEO-PETIOLATA (Lotsy) O. E. Schulz = E. VIOLACEO-PETIOLATA 

Lotsy in Baunier Rec. Trav. Bot. NeerI., xx., 26, 1923. Petals 

4 mm. long. Leaves large, flaccid. Holland. J 

Var. INCONSPICUA (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. INCONSPICUA Rosen in Cohn, 

Beitr. BioI. Pfl., x., 392, fig. 5, 7a, 1911. Petals 1.5 mm. long. 

Leaves minute. Europe. 

11-Hants S. Wolmer Forest, ap. 1888, Canon Vi:t'Ughan in llb. Druce. 

17-Surrey. Richmond, C. B. Clarke in llb. Deless. 

19-Essex N. Great Lodge, 1870, ll. E. Fox in llb. Dr'Uce. 

23-0xford. Oxford, 1870, ll. E. Fox in llb. Druce. 

24-Bucks. Great Brickhill, Dr'Uce. 

25-Suffolk E. Horninger, ll. E. Fox in llb. Druce. 

55--Leicester. Glooston, 1910, A. R. llorwood in llb. Druce. 

58-Cheshire. Moreton, Mason in llb. Dr'Uce. 

63-York. Grassington, 1917, J. Cryer in llb. Dr'Uce. 

66-Durham, Teesdale, 1883, ll. E. Fox in llb. Dr'Uce. 

Var. RADIANS (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. RADIANS Rosen in Ber. Deutsch. 

Bot. Gesells., =viii., 244, 1910. Leaves large, in a strong 

rosette. Germany, France, Greece. 

17-Sutrey. Wisley [0.18J, 1915, Dr'Uce. 

39-Stafford. Alstonfield, 1872, W. ll. Purchas in llb. Dr'Uce. 

64-Yorks W. Arncliffe, 1913, C. Waterfall in Rep. B.E.O., 808, 1913, 

as maj'Uscula, in llb. Dr'Uce. 

66-Durham. Middleton-in-Teesdale, specimens 24 cm. high, Druce. 

[Var. SERRA·TA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. SERRATA Jord. Diag., 233, 1864. 

Leaves oblanceolate, remotely serrate-dentate towards the apex. 

Petals 2.5-3 mm. long. France, Germany, N. America.J 

[Var. RUBRINAEVA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. RUBRINAEVA Jord. Diag., 

341, 1864. Jord. and Fourr. le., t. iv., fig. 16. Germany.J 

[Var. ELONGATA (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. ELONGATA Rosen in Bot. Zeit., 

xlvii., 600, 1889. l;>Iant large. Stem sub-strict. Switzerland, 

Bosnia.J

lS6 THE BRITISH EROPHILA. 

41-Glamorgan. Barry Island, 1905, H. J. Riddelsdell. Thought to be 

in/lata by E. S. Murshall in Rep. B.E.C., 155, 1905. 

50-Denbigh. Top of old walls, Bwlch Gwyn, Wrexham, C. Waterfall in 

Rep. B.E.C., 1925, " ad oedooarpa vergens." 

57-Derby. Brassington Rocks, W. R. Linton in Rep. RE. C., 1900, as 

vulgaris, in lib. DnLCe. Thought by Marshall to 'be stenocarpa. 

65-York N.W. Top of Cronkley Fell [Y.U9J, Lousley in Rep. B.E.C., 

563, 1927. 

66-Durham. High Force, Teesdale, 1919, Druee. 

83-Edinburgh. Edinburgh, T. B. Bell, 1838, ex Schulz. 

90-Angus. Field-side near Lunanhead [53J, Corstorphine 111 Rep. 

B.E.C., lIS, 1914; edge of salt marsh, Montrose [50J, Corstorphine, 

l.e., 116, 1914. Balnaboth; Inchrory, 1929, Dntee. 

lOS-Sutherland W. Pebbly path at Loch Loyal Lodge [241SJ, E. S. 

Marshall in Rep. B.E.C., 621, 1900, as a form of in/lata in Hb. 

Druce. "Ad formam 1I1inutissima (Griseb.) O. E. S. vergens." 

Forma MINUTISSIMA (Griseb.) O. E. S. 

23-0xford. Cuxham Mill, Druce. 

S9-Perth. E. Glen Shee, lS92, JJIarshall. 

Var. PYRENAICA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. PYRENAICA Jord: Diag., 224, 

lS64 = E. LUGDUNENSIS Jord., l.c. = E. SABULOSA F. Herm. = 

D. VERNA, var. SABULOSA Thell. in Hegi Illustr., iv., 390, 1919. 

Jord. and Fourr. le., t. iii., f. 12. Petals 3-3.5 mm. long. Pods 

5-6 =. long. Europe. 

19-Essex N. Berechurch, G. C. Brown in Rep. RE.C., S26, 1922, as P 

serrata, in Hb. Druce. 

[Var. OBCONICA (De Bary) O. E. Schulz = E. OBCONICA De Bary ap. Rosen 

in Bot. Zeit., xxvii., 601, 18S9. Stalks often very short and 

with the inflorescence pilose. Pods 5.5-6 mm. long. Europe.J 

[Var .. CHARBONELLII (H. Sudre) O. E. Schulz = E. CHARBONELLII H. 

Sudre in Bull. Assoc. Pyr., xviii., 4, 1907-8. Base of the leaves 

spotted with dull purple. Petals often rosy-violet. Pods 6 mm. 

x 2.5-3 mm. France.J 

Var. HIRTELLA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. HIRTELLA Jord. pug., 101, lS52. 

Jord. and Fourr. le., t. ii., fig. 6. Stalks in lower parts hispid. 

Both sides of the acute, oblong-lanceolate leaves hairy, with 

long, bifid hairs. Petals 2.5-3 mm. long. Pods 6 mm. x 2.5 mm. 

France, Greece, Spain, Algeria. 

66-Durham. Unmortared wall near the High Force Hotel [4467J, 

E. S. Marshall in Rep. B.E.C., 48S, 1915, as "more hairy 

virescens" in Hb. Druce. 

Var. RURIVAGA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz E. RURIVAGA Jord. Diag., 225, 

1864. Pods 7-S mm. x 3 mm. long. France, Caucasus.


66-Durham. Widdy Bank Pastures, March 25, 1915, J. Cryer in Rep. 

B.E.C., 314; 1915, as mai1cscula, in Hb. Druce. In abundance. 

Petals veined,exceeding the sepals. Hairs 2-3-fid. Pods 

rounded at the top, obovate-oblong. Average 34 seeds in each 

pod. 

Var. MAJUSCULA (Jord.) Haussk. in Verh. Bot. Prov. Brand., Xlll., 608, 

1871. Druce Br. PI. List, ed. 1, 5, 1908. E. MAJUSCULA Jord. 

PugilI., 11, 1852. Jord. and Fourr. le., t. 5, fig. 20. Schulz 

Mon., fig. 34 a. Plant robust. Pod 6-7 mm. x 2.5-3 mm. 

Petals 2.5-4 mm. long. Upper part of leaves coarsely dentate, 

greyish green. Europe. 

19-Essex N. Alphamstone [882J, G. C. B'I'own in Rep. B.E.C., 314, 

1915, Hb. Deless. 

20-Herts. Fells' Nurseries, Hitchin [63J, Little in Hb. Druce. 

22-Berks. lnkpen, 1890; Shrivenham; 1895, Druce. 

23-0xford. Woodstock, 1905; Charlbury, 1882; Cassington [0.8J, 

1915, Druce. 

24-Bucks. Bow Brickhill, 1891, Druce, teste Freyn. 

30-Beds. Near Brickhill, Druce. 

36--Hereford. Brampton Abbots, A .. Ley in Rep. B.E.C., 437, 1909. 

48---Merioneth. Llanderfel, 1860, W. Pamplin in Hb. Druce. 

54-Lincoln N. Leverton, Mason in Hb. Dr1we. 

62-York N.E. GOJ'mire, May 1858, J. G. Baker in Journ. Bot., 237, 

1928. 

90-Angus. Near Brjdge of Dun (52b), Corstorphine in Rep. B.E.C .. 

117, 1914; The Lurgies, Montrose, p.p., Corstorphine, l.e., 

117, 1914. 

Var. AMERICANA (Pers.) O. E. Schulz = DRABA VERNA, var. AMERICA:KA 

pers. Syn., ii., 190, 1807 = E. AMERICANA DC. Syst., ii., 356, 

1821 = E. PSILOCARPA Jord. Diag., 241, 1864. Petals 2-2.5 mm. 

long. Pods obversely linear oblong, 7-10 mm. x 1.5-2 mm. 

Europe, N. America. 

17-Surrey. Cultivated field near Lockner Farm, Chilworth, 1918, C. 

E. Salmon in Jowm. Bot., 237, 1928. 

Var. KROCKERI (Andrz.) Asch. & Graeb. Fl. Nordost. Flack., 364, 1898, 

excl. of MAJUSCULA = E. STENOCARPA Jord. Pugill., 11, 1852,. et 

Diag., 239, 1864, p.p. Jord. and Fourr. le., t. iv., fig. 15. 

Schulz Mon., 3.56, fig. 34b. Leaves lanceolate, more or less 

entire. Flowers small. Sepals 1 mm. Petals 1.5 mm. long. 

Pods linear oblong. Europe (no British locality given), N. 

America. 

ll-Rants S. Near Townhill park, Southampton, 1918, W.R. Sherrin 

in Journ. Bot., 238,1928. Winchester, 1891, Miss C. E. Palmer 

in Hb. Druce.


Forma MINUTISSIMA (Griseb.) O. E. S. 

20-Herts. Ickleford House, Hitchin [68J, J. E. Little in Rep. B.E.C., 

449, 1913. 

SCAPOSAE, I.e. 

flexuous. 

B. Section. 

Stalk thickened below, rigid, upper part slightly 

[Var. COCHLEATA (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. COOHLEATA Rosen in Bel'. 

Deutsch. Bet. Gesell., xxviii., 244, 1910. Blade of the leaf 

. at first ovate. Petals 4 mm. long. Pods sub ovoid, subtumid. 

Germany'. Also a hybrid with radians.] 

[Var. STRICTA (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. STRIC'TA Rosen, loe. Leaves at 

first rhomboid. Petals 3 mm, long. Pods oblong-ovoid, subcompressed. 

Schulz Mon., fig. 34 c. Europe, North and East.J 

[Var. HARCYNICA F. Hermann in Verh!. Bot. del' Prov. Brand., xlv., 

195, 1904. Leaves broadly lanceolate or obovate, coarsely 

dentate. Petals large, 4 mm. long. Pods sub ellipsoid, about 

8 mm. x 3.5-4 mm. Germany.J 

Va!'. SESSILIFLORA' (Beck.) O. E. Schulz = E. VULGARIS, var. SESSIU 

FLORA Beck., I.e., 172, 1892 = E. COCHLEOIDES Lotsy. Schulz 

Mon., fig. 34 d. Leaves numerous, short, broadly obovate. 

subsessile. Stalk short. Petals 2.5-3 mm. long. Pods claviform, 

subtumid. 

16-Kent W. Old walls, Bexley Heath, 1867, ll. E. Fox in llb. Druee. 

17-Surrey. Milford [1216, 1217J, E. S. Marshal! in Rep. B.E.C., 

435, 1894, as "perhaps virescens," in llb. Druee. 

83-Edinburgh. Midcalder, 1858, Bell in llb. Druee. 

[Var. PATENS (Rosen) O. E. Schulz = E. PATENS Rosen, loe. Leaves 

larger t.han in sessiliflora, obovate-Ianceolate. Fruiting pedieels 

horizontally patent. Breslau, Germany.] 

EROPHILA MACROCARPA. 

[E. MACROCARPA (Boiss. & Heldr.) Boiss. F!. Orient., 304, 1867 = D. 

MACROCARPA Boiss. & HeldI'. Diag., 28, 1849 = D. VERNA, var. 

MACROCARPA Halac. Consp. Fl. Graec., i., 102, 1901. Recedes 

towards verna in its narrower pods. Stems solitary or few, 

always erect, in the lower part with appressed, furcate hairs. 

The leaves with furcate or stellate hairs. Raceme with 4-12 

flowers. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, thinly pilose. Petals 2.5-3 mm. 

long. Pods with stalks 1.5-0.4 cm. long, narrow lineal', (5)7-12 

x 1.2(3) mm. Ovary with 14-60 ovules. Schulz Mon., fig. 

35 a, b. Mediterranean area, Asia Minor.J


EROPHILA BOERHAA VII. 

E. BOERHAAVII (Van Hall) Dumortier Fl. Belg., 120, 1827. The specific 

name is given from Alysson vuLgare polygoni folio loculo rotunda. 

E. BOERHAAVII Index Alter PI. Hort. Lugd. Batav., ii., 4, n. 10, 

1720 = DRABA VERNA L., /3 BOERHAAVII Van Hall Specim. Bot., 

149, 182i. Schulz Mon., fig. 35 c, d. 

Planta fructifera, usque 10 cm. alta. Scapi inferne pilis brevissimis 

tcnuissimisque simplicibus et furcatis usque ad 0.25 mm. longis 

vestiti, superne glabrescentes. Folia brevia, obovato-spathulata, 

acutiuscula integra vel utrinque 1-3 dentata, in petiolum 

angustata, pilis furcatis brevissimis tenuissimisque densiuscule 

obtecta, margine basin versus pilis simplicibus paucis paulo 

longioribus ciliata, cum petiolo 4-10 mm. longa, superne 1.5-4.5 

mm. lata, membranacea saepe rubescentia. Racemus sub anthesi 

laxiusculus de in laxus, 5-10 florus. Pedicelli 5-1 mm. 

longi. Sepala 1 mm. longa, glabra vel hispida. Petala 2 mm. 

longa. Ovariurn ovulis 32-18. Siliculae in pedicellis 18-3 mm. 

longis, obovoidea-subrotundae, 4-5 mm. longae, 2.5-3 mm. latae, 

apice rotundato, stylo brevissimo apiculatae, basin versus parum 

angustatae, stramineae vel pallide rubescentes. Semina 0.4 

mm.longa. 

Mature plant up to 10 cm. in height. Stems clothed in. the lower part 

with very fine, short, simple or forked hairs up to 0.25 mm. 

long, upper part glabrescent. Leaves short, narrowed into the 

petiole, obovate-spathulate, acutish, entire or. each side bearing 

1-3 teeth, with very short, rather dense, fine forked hairs, 

the leaf margin ciliate towards the base with a few somewhat 

longer simple hairs. The leaf, including petiole, 4-10 mm. long, 

1.5-4.5 mm. broad at the top, membranous and often reddish. 

Raceme lax at flowering, becoming laxer, with 5-10 flowers. 

Pedicels 5-1 mm. long. Sepals, 1 mm. long, glabrous or hispid. 

Petals 2 mm. long. Ovaries with 32-18 ovules. Pods pedicellate, 

18-3 mm. long, ob ovoid-sub rotund , 4-5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. 

broad, rounded at the top, with short apiculate style, slightly 

narrowed at base, straw coloured or pale reddish. 

Europe, Asia, N. America. 

3-Devon S. Otterton, 1866, H. E. Fox in Hb. Druce. 

6-Somerset N. Stow Easton, 1909, Miss I. M. Raper and J. W. White 

in Hb. Druce. 

12-Hants N. Old Basing Castle, Miss O. E. Palm er ; Alton, 1885, 

Oanon Vaughan in Hb. Druce. 

15-Kent E. Canterbury, Bishop Mitchinson. Deal to Sandwich, 1889; 

Kingsdown and Walmer, with sub-var. ·uni·fiora (Opiz) O. E. S., 

Fax in Hb. Dr·uce. 

17-':"'Surrey. Reigate Heath, 1899, O. E. Salmon in Journ. Bot., 239, 

1928.

THE BRITISH EROPHILA. 

19-Essex N. Alphamstone [884J, G. O. Brown in Rep. B.E.O., 315, 

1915. 

20-Herts. Fells' Nurseries, Hitchin, 1912, Little; Grove Mill, Hitchin, 

Little in Rep. B.E.O., 808, 1919; between Beiston and Wymondley, 

1912, Little; Cardwell, 1913, Little; Hitchin, 1898, Druce. 

21-Middlesex. Acton, A. Loydell in Hb. Druce. 

22-Berks. Sheepstead, 1914; Ridgeway, 1895; cornfield, Moulsford, 

1915, Druce; Cothill, Druce, "ad uniflora vergens." Frilford, 

1929, Druce. 

23-0xford. Marston [C.13J (and as uniflora); Stadhampton Park Wall 

[0.20J; Stanton St John, 1915; Finstock, and f. luxurians, 1909, 

as Ozanoni i Tusmore, f. macrocarpa, Druce. Wigginton garden 

path, Riddelsdell in Rep. B.E.O., 487, 1918, as majuscula. 

North Leigh, on site of Roman Villa [P.77J, 1929, Druce. Banbury, 

Beesley. 

24-Bucks. Ivinghoe, 1923, Druce. 

25-Suffolk E. Aldeburgh, 1911, Druce. 

31-Hants. About Ramsay and Wood Walton [3663J, E. S. Marshall 

in Journ. Bot., 240, 1928. 

32-Northants. Colley West on, 1877, Druce. Kingsthorpe, 1892, 

Dixon. 

33-Gloster E. Fairford, Druce in Rep. B.E.O., 116, 1914. 

34-Gloster W. Turfy wall top, Tidenham Chase, as praecox; Tut:tshill, 

1897, Shoolbred in Hb. Druce. 

35-Monmouth. Tintern Abbey, H. E. Fox in Hb. Druce. 

4l-Glamorgan. Kenfig, 1926, Druce. 

Sub-var. LINEARIFOLIA O. E. S. Leaves very narrow, 2-3 mm., more 

narrowed at balle. 

17-Surrey. Reigate Heath, 1897, O. E. Salmon in Journ. Bot., 240, 

1928. 

21-Middlesex. On old wall, Neasden, April 5, 1867, H. E. Fox in 

Hb. Druce. 

23--0xford. Hethe [41212J, 1916, Dmce; Hook N art on to Wigginton 

[n.5J, H. J. Riddelsdell in Rep. B.E.O., 117, 1914, as verna. 

90-Angus. Field track near Rescobie [54J, 1914, Oorstorphine in Rep. 

B.E.O., 117, 1914, in Hb. Druce. 

92-Aberdeen S. Braemar, 1854, Hb. Druce. 

Var. BRACHYCARPA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. BRACHYCARPA Jord. Pugill., 

9, 1852, et Diag., 219, 1864. Petals very small, 1.5 mm. long. 

Pods 3 mm. x 2 mm. (No British or extra European localities 

given by Schulz.) 

Jersey. Quenvais; St Aubin's, 1907; St Ouen's, 1910, Druce. 

5-Somerset S. Minehead Warren, c. 1850, J. G. Gif/ord also [2919J 

E. S. Marshall. - , 

il-'-Somerset N. Bleadon [2918J, 1905, E. S. Marshall in Journ. Bot., 

240, 1928. 

193

.. 


23-0xford. Banbury; Rolton Stone Pits [0.5, 6, 7, 8, 9J; Marston 

[0.21J, Druce. 

Var. :M:ACROPHYLLA O. E. Schulz, novo var. Folia insigniter magna 

lataque, cum petiolo 1-1.25 cm. longa, obovata, utrinque 1-2 

denticulata, supra medium 4-10 mm. lata, subito in petiolum 

contracj;a. 

5-Somerset N. Cheddar, 1927, Druce. 

23-0xford. Rare. Rolton Stone Pits; Binsey, 1914, Drucp. 

Var. OXONIENSIS O. E. Schulz, novo var. Folia elongata, cum pet.iolo 

1.5-2.8 cm. longa, anguste spathulata, utrinque 1 denticulata, 

supra medium 4-6 mm. lata, sensim in petiolum angustata. 

23-0xford. Rare. Binsey, 1894, as spathulijolia; Marston, 1880 and 

1894, Druce. A very distinct looking plant on account of 

its numerous narrowly spathulate leaves in a dense rosette, with 

arcuate fruiting pedicels. 

EROPHILA PRAECOX. 

E. PRAECOX (Stevens) DC. Syst., iL, 257, 1821 = DRABA PRAECOX Stevens 

in Mem. Soc. Mosc., iii., 269, 1812. Includes E. GLABRESCENS 

Jord. l;'ug., 10, 1852; E. VIVARIENSIS Jord. Diag., 210, 1864; 

E. :M:EDIOXI:M:A Jord. Pug., 10, 1852; E. :M:ICRANTHA Jord., z.c., 

213; E. OBLONGATA Jord., l.c., 214; E. RUBELLA Jord., l.c., et 

Jord. and Foun., l.c., L, t. i., f. 4, 1866. Schulz Mon., fig. 35, 

e., f. 

Europe, Asia (Kotschy's Cyprian plant from the Troodos). Schulz gives 

no British localities. 

Planta sub anthesi 1.5-5 cm. alta. Scapi saepe solitarii, rarius complures, 

inferne pilispatentibus simplicibus C. 0.4 mm. longis, 

interdum brevioribus stipitato-bifurcatis intermixtis disperse 

vestiti, superne ± glabrescentes. Folia brevia, obovato-spathulata, 

acutiuscula, integra vel utrinque 1-3 dentata, in petiolum 

angustata, praecipue supra et margine pilis crassis simplicibus 

longiusculis, 0.5 mm. longis, interdum pilis plerumque paucis 

bifurcatis intermixtis ± dense obsita, saepe rubro-violacea, cum 

petiolo 4-10 mm. longa. Racemus initio laxiusculus dein laxus, 

5-10 florus. Pedicelli 5-1 mm. longi. Sepala 1-1.5 mm. longa, 

glabra vel


90-Angus. Sands of Barry [58J, Corstorphine m Rep. B.E.C., 119, 

1914, as praecox. 

Forma NANA (Sudre) O. E. Schulz. Stalk slender, 1.5-4 cm. Leaves 2.5 

mm. long. Raceme 1-6 flowers. Pods 2-3 mm. long. 

Jersey. La Haule, 1907, Dr1tCe. 

14-Sussex E. Downs near Telcombe, 1898, T. Hilton in Hb. Druce; 

Beachy Head, 1867, H. E. Fox in Hb. Drllce. 

20-Herts. Walsworth, etc., J. E. Little. See Jonr1J.. Bot., 241,1928. 

23-0xford. Islip, Druce. 

37-Northants. Gretton, 1907, G. Chester. 

Var. SUBNITENS (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. SUBNITENS Jord. Diag., 208, 

1864. Jord. and Fourr., l.c., t. i., fig. 2. Leaves sparsely hairy. 

Petals 4-5 mm. long. France only, in Schulz. 

14-Sussex E. Walls, Southover, March 1927, Miss 111. E. Edgar in 

Journ. Bot., 241, 1928 .. 

Var. MICROCARPA O. E. Schulz. Pods small, shortly obovoid, 3-3.5 mm. x 

1.5-2.5 mm. 

22-Berks. Park Farm Down (ant-hills), alto 600 feet, 1929, C. G. Trapnell 

in Hb. Druce. 

[Var. CAMPESTRIS (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. CAMPESTRIS Jord. Diag., 210, 

1864 = E. AMBIGENS Jord., Lc., 211 = E. PROCERULA Jord., 

l.c., 215 = E. PROPINQUA Jord., ex Perard Bull. Bot. Soc. Fr., 

320, 1871. Petals 3-3.5 mm. long. pods 6-9 mm. x 2.25-3.5 mm. 

France.] 

[Var. LEPIDA (Jord.) O. E. Schulz = E. I,F.PIDA Jord. Diag., 217,1864 

E. PATULA Jord., l.c. Plants often very small. Pods 4-5 mm. x 

1.75-2 mm. France.J 

[Var. EUOHLOA (Sudre) O. E. Schulz. Maranne, l.c., 381, 1913. Plant 

4-5 cm. high. Pods 3.5 mm. x 1.75-2 mm.. Albi and Tarn, 

France.] 

EROPHILA SETULOSA. 

[E. SETULOSA Boiss. & Blanche Diag., 2, ser. v., 31, 1856; Boiss. Fl. 

Orient., i., 304, 1867. Plant 3-15 cm. high. Stems many, thick, 

glabrous. Leaves broadly or narrowly spathulate, acute ... 

with petiole 1-2 cm. long, large stiff hairs (setulis), simple, 

rarely bifurcate. Racemes 3-12 flowered. Sepals 1.5 mm., 

glabrous or hairy. Petals 2.5-3 mm. pods long stalked, 7-10 

mm. x 2-7.5 mm. Schulz Mon., fig. 35, g, h. Syria.J 

[Var. DINGLERI O. E. Schulz, with more hairy leaves. Rumelia.]


EROPHILA MINIMA. 

[E. MINIMA C. A. Meyer Verz. PI. Rauk., 184, n. ]624, 1831. Boiss. Fl. 

Orient., i., 303, 1867. Plant after flowering 0.5-5 cm., in fruit 

1-10 cm. Stems few or many. Leaves elongate, entire', narrow 

linear, fleshy, drying yellow. Flowers small. Sepals 1 mm. 

Medit., W. Asia.] 

[Var. TURKESTANICA O. E. Schulz. Leaves shorter, 4-5 mm. x 0.5-1 mm. 

Pods 15 mm. x 2 mm. Turkestan, Syria.] 

EROPHILA GILGIANA. 

[E. GILGIANA (Muschler) O. E. Schulz = DRABA GILGIANA Muschler. 

Differs from minima by its more numerous, ascending, filiform 

stems, shorter leaves, sepals 0.75 mm. glabrous. Pods 15 mm. Y 

5 mm. Syria.] 

EROPHILA MUSCOi'lA. 

[E. }IUSCOSA DC. Syst., ii., 358, 1821 = DRABA MUSCOSA Ruiz & Pavon 

ex Steudel Nom., ii., 528, 1840. Among moss, Peru, Buiz and 

Pavon in Hb. Lambert. Plant small, resembling moss in it" 

appearance. Stem 1-2 flowered. J?ods elliptic.] 

HYBRIDS. 

[E. BOERHAAVII x PRAECOX = E. VINCENTII O. E. Schulz. France.] 

[E. PRAECOXXVERNA (E. GLABRESCENS-MA.JUSCULA Favrat)=E. CHAVINIl 

(L.) Favrat. Switzerland, France, Germany.] 

E. BOERHAAVII X VERNA = E. FAUCONETTII O. E. Schulz. Pods abor· 

tive, small. Seeds none. Switzerland, France, Hungary. 

22-Berks. Frilford, 1920, Druce. 

49-Carnarvon. Pen-y-Dinas, Druce.

KASHMIRIAN NOTES. 205 

KASHMIRIAN NOTES. 

MAJOR-GENERAL A. B. E. CATOR, C.B., D.S.O. 

The fishing was getting poorer and poorer. At the end of each blank 

day the shikari had fresh excuses. Bright sun and high water were not 

conducive to sport, added to which, both of us were beginning to feel 

a bit bored with the house-boat, so we decided to make plans for a 'camping 

expedition into the hills. Summoning the head man, we informed 

him of our decision and he set out promptly to secure coolies and ponies. 

Two days later found us sitting on the banks of the Jhelum, in the 

early hours of the morning, surrounded by a motley crowd, all wanting 

to lend a hand. Our camp paraphernalia had been ferried over and 

piled in an untidy heap on the bank. There were camp chairs and tables, 

tents and bedding, pots and pans, tins and a hundred and one articles 

lying about, all to be stowed on the backs of six miserable little skeletons, 

described by the head man as pack ponies; two others, in little 

better condition, were for riding. How all the kit was going to ,be 

loaded to my mind was a puzzle, but the head pony boy seemed unconcerned 

and was soon spreading out thick blankets with big pocket-like 

sides, and into these' pockets he pushed and shoved convenient-sized 

loads. Each pony was led up in turn, and the load heaved on his back, 

to be made fast by a rope encircling the whole. It is always a mystery 

to me how anything ever gets done in the East. Here were assembled 

some twenty men, not to speak of women, children and pie dogs, all 

talking at once, each giving separate advice; some busying themselves 

undoing work just finished by others, they in their turn retaliating by 

cries and lamentations; but, marvellous to behold, the whole outfit 

seemed comparatively ready at the end of some forty minutes. The previous 

day I had tried the two riding ,ponies. Their paces were awful, 

stilty and rough, and the saddles indescribably bad and uncomfortable 

with a thick wooden bar set up perpendicularly on the pommel. I had 

now the task of breaking to Nell the class of animal she had to ride. 

In spite of the animal which she now mounted refusing to go where its 

head was pointed, and invariably squealing and stamping at any confrere 

who attempted to join him, she took it very well. For my own 

mount, words fail me; it was weak, thin, and miserable, and I found 

walking infinitely preferable. 

Leaving Sopor at 9 a.m., we started on a hot five-mile walk fringing 

the Wular Lake, and reached the foot hills at eleven. Here we halted, 

watered the ponies, and. adjusted the loads before starting the climb. 

Nell was particularly anxious to see the flowers on the higher altitudes, 

and on the advice of our head man, Lassoo, our destination was to be 

a place called Nagmaree, 10,000 feet up. It was two marches distant 

and some 5,000 feet above the lake. The foot hills for the first three or

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four miles were bare and uninteresting. To our right as we climbed was 

a steep, bare under-cleft, with a mosque perched on its summit inhabited 

by Mahomedan priests; to our minds they appeared to lead a dull and 

useless existence, isolated as they were froni any human habitation. 

They guard the shrine of Baba-Shukr-ud-din, a renowned Saint of his 

time after whom the hill is named. 

As we progressed higher the hills became more covered with vegetation, 

and on reaching a point about a thousand feet from the bottom 

the path led us into a thick forest of deodars and chestnuts, with occasional 

walnut and ilex. It was quite a relief to get under their shade, 

and finding we were some way ahead of the pack ponies and the rest 

of the followers we called a halt and sat ·down to have our luncheon. 

So far, with the exception of one or two isolated flowers, we had come 

across none of any special interest. Turning back, the Kashmir valley 

lGoked lovely, with the fifteen-mile long Wular Lake shimmering in .the 

foreground at the foot of the mountains. From this point the path 

dipped down into a heavily-wooded valley, and following it for another 

four miles we came to the village of Rampur-Ragpur, through which we 

went, to find a nice camping ground with a good spring on the far side. 

Here there is a Dak bungalow, but we decided to use our tent and not 

put our faith in the doubtful cleanliness of the rather attractive-looking 

wooden bungalow. • 

Barely had we had our tea and settled down before the head man of 

the village came in and reported a bear to be feeding in the crops half a 

mile up the hill above our camp. Imagine my chagrin after a stiff dimb 

to find the wrong-sized cartridges had been sent from Lucknow and 

would not go into my rifle. No amount of language was any good, and 

I returned disconsolately to camp; from here we sent off a coolie to 

Srinagar to try and get some others of the right size. A heavy thunder 

storm came up in the night, but our tent proved equal to the occasion 

and we kept dry and snug. In the morning we found the tent too sodden 

and heavy to pack, so we postponed the start an hour to let it dry 

in the brilliant sunshine. 

At nine o'clock we started on a stiff climb, the path zig-zagging up 

the heavily-timbered slopes from the village. Every step we took .brought 

fresh views to our gaze, the whole getting more lovely as we ascended. 

On reaching the top we found a wonderful ascending plateau, with a 

perfect view of the snow-topped Himalayas to the north; to the south 

stretched the Kashmir Valley. The plateau fell away steeply on both 

sides; big cedars and ilex trees were dotted in clumps, reminding us 

very much of English Parks. Here we found the wild peony, in profusion, 

gone to seed. Under foot the turf was equal to anything I have 

seen, and was more like that of a first-class golf . links than what one 

would expect to find some 7000 feet up in the wilds of the Himalayas. 

Under the cedars, meadow cranesbills carpeted the ground, and a very 

sweet-smelling Spiraea was everywhere in massive clumps, some of it 

already in seed, its clusters of bright, red berries contrasting wonderfully 

with those in full creamy bloom.

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along to the eastward end of the crag, we discovered a much smoother 

and easier descent than the way by which we had come up. It was 

almost a wrench to leave, and we shall long treasure in our minds the 

memory of this rock garden of nature. On the way down we came across 

some Ha,benaria, now faded and over, and a few Gentiana capitata. 

As we were nearing the camp we met my Kumaoni orderly, Bacchi Singh, 

who, thinking we had missed our way, came out to look for us. 

We had been up to 10,500 feet, and it is evident that at this time of 

the year no flowers grow in any great profusion below this altitude. 

Returning to camp, my shikari, Satara Khan, said that three bears 

were reported to be devastating the crops in a village eight miles below 

in the valley, and as it was on the route of our return journey I sent 

him off to meet the coolie who was to return there from Srinagar with 

my cartridges and to gain if possible any further news of the bears' 

movements. We decided to remain in the bungalow; the sky, in spite 

of a glorious sunset, looked threatening, and we had already discovered 

that space for two in an 80 lb. tent is limited. We awoke next morning 

to find a clear sky and to be greeted by a most wonderful view of 

the now cloudless mountains and of the valley beyond. Below us, ten 

miles away, was the Wular Lake with its fifteen-mile stretch of water, 

and beyond one could see the Jhelum River, a thin silvery thread winding 

its way through the Kashmir Valley. With the aid of glasses we 

could even clearly see our house-boat, and noted with chagrin that another 

had moored close to us. By 9 a.m. the ponies were loaded up and 

Nell tried several snapshots of them, but the light by then was none too 

good. Our special comic one is the. cook pony, looking for all the world 

like an armoured snail, covered as she is by pots and pans and other 

" impedimenta," her small legs appearing from under her bulky load; 

little else of her is to be seen. 

The descent to the valley was not so attractive as the way by which 

we had come up; the timber was smaller and the hillside smoother. 

Six miles down we emerged into a cultivated valley, and here we found 

Satara Khan waiting by the side of the track. I knew the moment I saw 

his face that things were not well with him, and, sure enough, he had 

bad news: the coolie from Srinagar had returned empty handed-no 

.450 cartridges were to be obtained there. To emphasise the bad luck, 

he narrated at length the number and size of the bears he had seen that 

night in the crops. Well, it could not be helped. I had only myself to 

blame in this land of blunders that my cartridges were not all right. 

Another hot three miles brought us to the shores of the lake, and 

Lassoo, olir head man, began bargaining for a boat to take us back 

across the lake and down the Jhelum to Sopor, where we had left the 

house-boat, distant about twelv€ miles. An enormous craft, manned by 

seven lusty Kashmiri, was produced; the ponies, much to the poor little 

beasts' relief, were off-loaded and the whole of the kit was piled amidship; 

our followers were packed in " aft," a table and two chairs placed 

"forrard." "Tiffin," we were informed, was to be served en route. 

Whilst waiting for the boat to be loaded NeIl took a smaller one and went

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PERSONALIA AND VARIOUS NOTES. 

MR T. \V. TAYLOR has been appointed to succeed Mr W . .T. Bean -as 

Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

MR F . .T. HANBURY, Brockhurst, East Grinstead, is anxious to have 

seeds of rare British plants. He will defray expenses. 

MR A. E. 'WADE, Botanical Department, The National Museum of 

\Vales, Cardiff, would be glad of assistance in preparing a Flora of Monmouthshire. 

THE Secretary of tlH' R.E.C. is anxious to obtain the Secretary's 

Reports for 1879, 1903, 1909, 1916, 1917 and 1922, and the Distributor'·s 

Report for 1926. 

CAPT . .T. RAMSBOTTOM now succeeds to the Keepership of Botany at 

the British Museum, Cromwell Road, where we wish him a most successful 

term of office, and offer him hearty congratulations. 

MRS PERRIN, 23 Holland Villas Road, London, W.14, is continuing 

her beautiful paintings of British plants. Members willing to help are 

asked to communicate with her. 

MR N. WOODHEAD, M.Sc., assistant Lecturer in Botany at University 

College of North "Vales, Bangor, is preparing a new Flora of Carnarvonshire. 

We wish him every success. 

THE veteran, Prof. A. H. Sayee, has been made an honorary fellow 

of the British Academy and has received the H uxley Memorial Medal 

of the Royal Anthropological Society. 

THE REV. W. KEBLE MARTIN, Coffinswell Rectory, Newton Abbot, 

Devon, is painting British plants. He would be glad if members would 

send him fresh specimens. He will supply list. 

MR C. H. WRIGHT has retired after 45 years of service at the Kew 

Herbarium. He was made an A.L.S. in 1896. He began his work at the 

Oxford Botanic Gardens, going from there to Kew. 

MRS ISABEL ADAMS, F.L.S., is painting British Aquatics. Members 

wishing to help in sending specimens "should apply for a list of those 

wanted to 14 Vernon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 

MR .T. GORDON DALGLEISH, F.L.S., 50 Tisbury Road, Hove, Sussex, 

is preparing a Flora of Sussex. Members having Sussex notes 'are asked 

to communicate with him, or send in orders for the Flora.

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with 50 acres of land. It is gratifying to know that there are now over 

1000 subscribers. Our member, the Hon. Oliver Brett (Lord Esher), has 

given a most magnificent donation of £1000 to the general endowment 

fund, and Prof. G. M. Trevelyan, in addition to land, has given £1650 

for Doren Hill. There was also a donation of £20,000 towards the purchase 

of the Ashridge Estate. • 

WILD FLOWER PROTECTION. On another page will be seen an appeal 

on the subject from the Floral League. A mass of correspondence has 

occupied the pages of " The Times" and other newspapers. Conferences 

have been held and legislation is asked for. At present we believe a 

. Bill is being drafted for the purpose. More than forty years ago I took 

part in the movement and Lord Avebury drew up a circular asking the 

Natural History Societies in Britain for their support. Curiously enough 

this was not forthcoming and we could not get enough outside support to 

warrant going on with the Bill. Since that time the spread of Nature 

Study has increased the necessity for some scheme of protection and if 

possible to educate the teachers to be careful that their charges do not 

gather too freely and always avoid plucking roots. The BIshop of Gloucester 

wrote a very wise letter to " The Times" on the subject. It does, 

indeed, seem that it is time that protective legislation should be passed; 

but its application is surrounded with difficulties. Mere protection without 

a penalty would be useless. It would perhaps be best for each county 

to frame a list of seven to ten plants which should not be rooted up 

and sold by hawkers. This might be extended to include the fernssave 

the Bracken, of which our Midland woodlands are now nearly denuded. 

In the counties immediately under my survey it would seem wise 

to schedule Anemone Pulsatilla, Daphne Mezere1Lm, Le·ucojum aestivum 

and FritiZlaria. But perhaps it might be found easier to schedule areas 

rather than specific plants. Despite all that has\been said about depredators 

the greatest harm has been done by building or reclaiming operations. 

This was long ago felt to be the case by the Hon. N. O. Rothschild 

and others, and it was for that reason that the Society for the 

Preservation of Natural Areas was founded. With him, we drew up a 

schedule of places that it was most desirable to acquire, or have protected, 

and for that purpose I visited the greater part of the British 

Isles. The results are preserved in the archives of the Society. This 

Society, under the Presidency of Viscount Ullswater, has issued thousands 

of handbills with the view of lessening the wholesale destruction 

which goes on around us. 

BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD.-A meeting of the British Science Guild was 

held in the Mansion House, London, E.0.2., on April 24, the Right Hon. 

Lord Melchett, D.Sc., F.R.S. (President), in the chair. The Ohairman, 

in opening the proceedings, briefly indicated the scope of the three 

addresses that followed. The problem of the production of artificial fertilisers, 

his lordship pointed out, was not entirely new. In 1881 Dr 

Ludwig Mond had indicated the importance of the researches of Lawes 

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