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4 EPILOBIUM NOTES FOR 1889.
allegation that it is not indigenous. In the same spot, near
Tilford, where I gathered it last year, I could only find the f.
macrocarpn this season ; and strongly suspect, as I had not
interfered with the roots, that the same individuals had produced
the two different capsules in two successive years, having been
duly fertilized in the second, but not in the first.
E. PARviFLORUM Schreb., f. aprica. This proves to be an exceedingly
common state of the plant in Surrey, and doubtless is so
elsewhere ; varying in height from six inches upwar'ds. A specimen
gathered on weald clay, near Hambledon, was 53 inches high
by actual measurement, and stout in proportion. In one case it
occurred as a sport, with the leaves in threes :
f. trifoliata. This I have also seen from Perthshire. A shadegrown
state from Worplesdon is f. umbrosa, with flaccid, brightgreen
leaves. Mr. Beeby collected another, in a meadow near
Felbritlge, Surrey, with short, broadly ovate-acute leaves, which is
referred to f. brevifoHa = K. cordatxim Biv.
E. MONTANUM L., f. albijiora. Near Witley, Surrey; Finlarig,
Perthshire (leg. F. B. White). Seemingly much scarcer in Britain
than a state which has the unfertilized flowers white, afterwards
changing to pale pink, as in lanceolatum and roseum.
f. verticiUata . Not unfrequent about Witley. I also have it
from Tilford, and from Wye, E. Kent ; and Dr. White found it at
Lynedoch, Perthshire. Koch and Gi*enier and Godron ranked it
as a variety ; but I doubt its constancy, and, at best, it is no more
than a " sport."
E. LANCEOLATUM Scb. & Maur. Mr. Bennett sends a seedling
form from near Croydon, which appears to be a new locality.
f. simplex. Sunny bank near Bowler Green ; a small, unbranched,
probably seedling plant, 4-10 in. high.
f. umbrosa. Lfines near Brook and Bowler Green. Leaves usually
flaccid, light-green, longer and broader than in the open-ground
state, which not unfrequeutly reaches a height of three feet.
E. KosEUM Schreb. The Kev. E. F. Linton has gathered this
near Nayland, Suffolk (a new county record). Among the states
which I have collected this year, one from a cottage-garden near
Witley is placed near f. anyustifoUa ; the leaves are lanceolate,
erect, rather shortly petioled.
i. ximbrosa. Elstead and Worplesdon, by wooded streamlets;
also sent by Messrs. Bennett and Miller, from gardens at Croydon ;
and by Mr. Beeby, from Felbridge. A glabrescent plant, with
deep-green, thin, broad, flaccid leaves, the lower ones on long
stalks ; flowers small.
E. ADNATUM Griseb., f. simplex. Near Tilford and Hascombe,
Surrey, and between Cranbrook and Benenden, E. Kent; usually
the seedling plant, but sometimes a starved state of poor soils that
has survived the winter. If cultivated, it quickly changes, like all
the " forms " I have experimented with.
i. steiiophijJIa. Witley, Tilford and Hascombe, Surrey; Cowick,
Yorks. This appears to be the usual state in my neighbourhood.
f, umbrosa. In a shady fii'-plantation near Tilford.