2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 15

More Pimpernels

A large number of botanists appear to be particularly interested in recent discoveries of three sorts of pimpernel—red, blue and pink. One writing from Cheshire reports the finding—for the first time—of these three colours .on a stubble field near Wirral. The pink variety was nearly white with a deep pink rim inside the flower at the base of the corolla. The text-books, local and other, make no mention of a pink variety. Can its tint be the effect of weather? The same botanist found a specimen of the very rare rough podded yellow vetch near West Kirby just where it was seen for the last time eighty years ago. How can such a gap be bridged? The way of a seed in the ground, or air, may compare with any of Solomon's four wonders.