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6 EPILOBIUM NOTES FOK 1880.
It seems to vary almost indefinitely, especially in the Nortb, Mr.
Miller sentls several forms from Caithness and Sutherland, and Mr.
Beeby others from Shetland. I found a white -flowered state in
Glen Falloch, Perthshire, and one with flesh-coloured flowers near
Kingshouse, Argyle.
Var, ItipponicHin Wahlenberg {e.r jua-tc) occurred very sparingly
in a small bog near Kingshouse, Argyle, at 2000 ft., with J'L ana-
HaUidi/oliwii, and I rather suspected it to be a hybrid. The stem
is short (5 or 6 inches in my specimens), stout, erect from a curved
base, few-flowered, nodding at the top, the lower leaves being
obovate, more thimhalf as broad as long, glabrous, fleshy and rigid,
broadly rounded at the tip ; the upper ones almost veinless, subglabrous
; the flowers small (i in.), white or pale flesh-coloured.
E. ALSiNEFOLiuM Vill. Specimens brought from Clova, last
year, developed greatly in a shady corner of my garden, producing
leaves nearly an inch broad, and flowers quite I in. across, when
fully expanded ; but did not attain the luxuriance of a form found
by Mr. Hanbury and myself m one of the side-valleys of Glen
Etive, Argyle, which in some cases was 18 or 20 inches high. It
grew in a mossy rill, at 2600 feet.
E. ANAGALLiDiFOLiuM Lam., f. sccipnidfs. Li the same locality
with the last-named plant. Mr. W. F. Miller also gathered it in
1888, on Ben Lawers. In this state the capsule seems like a
prolongation of the stem, which has thus a scape-like appeai^ance.
It is described as single-flowered, but some of my specimens are
three-flowered.
I have been able, thanks to Mr. Hanbury, to carefully examine
Dr. Boswell's willow-herbs, and can confidently say that, although
he figures tiro plants in E. B., ed. 3, as " E. alpinnm" and " E.
aiKKjallidifolixun'" (I have not seen these figures recently), all his specimens
under both names are the present species, with the possible
exception of a Braemar plant, which may be a hybrid. The same
remark applies to the various specimens in Herb. Brit. Mus., and
to the Perthshire set sent to me by Dr. White.
*E. ADNATUM X Lamyi {E . semiadncttum Borbas). Near Tilford
between Hambledon and Hascombe ;
and in a wealden copse near
Witley. Some of the specimens shew an approach to Lamyi, while
others are nearer adnatnm. As a rule, the leaves have little
tendency to be decurrent by their blade, as in the latter species,
but are shortly pctioled. On record from some half-dozen localities
in Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary.
E. ADNATUM X OBScuRuai. Sandy ground near Tilford; very
scarce. Quite a different form from that found last year near
Witley, having grown in a drier situation and on a lighter soil.
E. ADNATUM X PARviFLORUM (7?. Wdssenhurgcnse V . Schultz). In
the same locality as the last, and also very scarce ; approaching
(idudtKin in the fiowers, and parrijdontm in the loaves. I believe it
has only been gathered before in Britain by Mr. Briggs, though
known from twenty Continental stations. Several Plymouth
specimens are at S. Kensington.
""E. lUKsuTUM X LANCEOLATuai {E. Surrcijunuiii mihi), hybr. nov.