452 Mr. BaBrNGTON on several new or imperfectly understood 
prominent hairs, so as to appear when closed like a little bur; each sepal 
ovate-lanceolate, blunt, with a diaphanous margin; petals and stamens 
rising from a fleshy disk, the former resembling the filaments of the an- 
thers, but alternate with them, and, as it appears to me, in an exterior 
whorl; stipules large, acute, membranous, ciliated. 
On gravelly ground, near Colney Hatch, Barnet. Hudson, ¥.: July, August. 
Mr. E. Forster suspects that this plant is only annual. Messrs. Milne and 
Gordon in their Indigenous Botany, i. 455, say, ‘‘ We found it in a field at 
Finchley and at Colney Hatch near Barnet, where Hudson observed it." It 
has not, I believe, been found since the publication of that work in 1793. 
2. H. glabra. Linn. 
Caulibus herbaceis prostratis pilis minutissimis retrorsüm arcuatis tectis, 
foliis ovali-oblongis glabris, florum sessilium glomerulis axillaribus. 
H. glabra. Linn. Herb.; Sp. Pl. 317. Huds. Fl. 4ngl.i. 108. Fl. Dan. 529. 
Engl. Bot. 206. DeCand. Prodr. iii. 367. Pers. Syn. i. 292. Sm. Engl. 
Fl.i.8. Bot. Gall. i. 197. Hooker, Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 144.? 
Whole plant of a pale yellowish green; stems thickly covered with very minute 
curved hairs, pointing downwards ; flowers much smaller than in H. hir- 
suta, and more numerous in each of the clusters, which are set so closely 
on the lateral branches as to present the appearance of a long leafy spike ; 
calyx glabrous; sepals oblong-ovate, rather acute; corolla and stamens as 
in the last; stigmas small; stipules lanceolate, acute, membranous, slightly 
ciliated. 
The description given under H. glabra in Dr. Hooker's Brit. Fl. belongs to 
H. ciliata, as does the Cornish locality. In Sir J. E. Smith's herbarium three 
specimens are preserved on one paper as H. glabra; No. 1. “Herb. D. Rose,” 
which is correct; No. 2. from Cornwall, and No. 3. from Halle, both of which 
belong to my H. ciliata, described below. Gaudin, Fl. Helv. ii. 243. describes 
the clusters as opposite to the leaves, but I suspect that he has taken the 
lateral branches mentioned above for single clusters, in which case they would 
appear to be opposite. 
Near Newmarket. Rev. Mr. Hemsted. 4. 
