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Cavanilles (Diss. bot. v. 273, t. 126, f. 3, 1788) from Northern 

 Africa, and in view of its glabrous stem, remarkably finely-cut leaves 

 with narrow linear segments, beak of about 40 mm., fertile filaments 

 with pronounced erect acute teeth as in E. moschatumy and geogi-aphical 

 range, we doubt the advisability of considering E. glutinosum a variety 

 of this species, 



E. cicutarium L'Herit. /3. glandiilosuni Van den Bosch (Prod. 

 Fl. Batav. 55, 1850), to which, of late years, many British plants 

 have been referred, is probably, from the description, synonymous 

 with Dumortier's glufinosiim, but we have not been able to examine 

 authentic material. E. sahulicola Lange (Willkomm & Lange, 

 Prodr. Fl. Hisp. iii. 537, 1878) seems evidently a form of E. fjlandu- 

 losum Dum., but Lange's own plant has not been seen. 



Plant small, + compact with no long straggling branches, pro- 

 vided with an abundance of glandular hairs to which sand adheres, 

 Stems patent-erect, not prostrate. Leaves small, 4: bipinnatifid, 

 finely cut, segments short, ovate, subacute, Pecluncles 2-3-fiowered, 

 shorter than or slightly exceeding leaves. Flowers small, about 

 6 mm. in diameter, fleshy- white ; petals subequal, unspotted ; sepals 

 ± 3-5 mm. long. Fertile stamens with filament suddenly enlarged 

 near the base or sub-dentate with a " shoulder." Anthers pale yellow ; 

 pollen orange. IStigma cream-coloured or at any rate not dark as in 

 E. dentatum. Carpels 4-5 mm. long, very attenuate-stipitate at 

 base; pit «mall, destitute of outer furrow ; twists of awn 3-5; beck 

 15-20 mm. long. 



At once distinguished from other forms of E. cicutarium by its 

 small flowers, short and few-flowered peduncles, and short beak, and, 

 on closer examination, by the carpel-pit lacking the outer furrow. 



Exsiccata. Billot, Fl. gall, et germ. 1845 ! (as E. sahulicolum 

 Jord, ined.). 



Distribution. Britatn. Cliesliire, y.c. 5S; New Brighton ! 1868. 

 No, A. John Barrow (as E. cicutarium) (Hb. Manchester). Kather 

 less glutinous than type. Lancashire south, v.c. 59. Seaforth 

 Common ! 1860 & 1866^not the 1870 plant, which is another species 

 ^H, S. Fisher (as E. cicutarium var. pilosum) (Hb. Manchester), 

 Less glutinous than type, Lsle of Man, v.c, 71. Point of Ayre ! 

 1917, H. J. & J. A. Wheldon (as E. hipinnatum Willd. var. sahuli- 

 colum Lange) (Hb. Mus. Brit.). — Belgium. Dunes of Flanders! 

 Dumort. — France. Finistere. Penmarck ! 1900. A. Pellat (as 

 E. ciciitariiim var. = E. sahulicola Lange) (Hb. Manchester), 

 Vendee. Dunes de la Tranche ! 1855. P. N. Ayraud. Billot, 1845 

 (nfi E. sahulicolum Jord. ined.) (Hb. Mus. Brit.). Charente- Infer. 

 Fourras ! 1884. R. P. Murray (as E. cicutarium) (Hb. Mus. Brit,).— 

 Spa FN. Pontevedra and Vigo (Lange). 



2, E. DENTATUM Dumortier, /. c. 



This was placed by the author in a special section with E. mos- 

 chatum, distinguished by having the fertile stamens bi-dentate at the 

 base. Upon dissecting Dumortier's type, however, we were surprised 

 to find that the filaments wei-e merely suddenly enlarged or with a 

 right-angled ''shoulder " — exactly as in glutinosum — and were quite 

 ludike those of E. moschatum (see above). 



