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Moquin. Citation ' C. album var. leptophyllum Nuttall ' is also 

 incorrect. The plant is verj; closely allied to the European forms 

 of C. album, and is no species. — C. E. Moss." 



" Agrostis verticillata Vill. Roadsides and quarries on diorites 

 or syenites, near Vale Castle, Guernsey, August 14, 1912. Confined, 

 so far as my experience goes, to the quarries of ' granite,' or the 

 edges and drains of roads made with ' granite,' small particles of 

 which are held tenaciously by the roots. I have a few specimens 

 stoloniferous. — W. C. Barton." 



SHORT NOTES. 



Linaria arenaria DC. in N. Devon. — Whilst botanizing on 

 Braunton Burrows on Monday, August 17th, I found a plant that 

 was quite new to me, and which I subsequently identified as 

 Linaria arenaria DC. I thought at the time that I had found a 

 plant that was also new to Britain, but on taking it to the 

 British Museum, I was shown specimens that had been collected 

 at Westward Ho ! a few years previously. My attention was also 

 drawn to notes in this Journal for 1907, pp. 411, 451, the first of 

 which speaks of the discovery of the plant at Westward Ho !, and 

 the second states that the seed of the plant had been introduced 

 there from Brittany. The Eev. E. S. Marshall has since informed 

 me that a lady sent him specimens of the plant, which he believes 

 came from the same spot in which I found it, namely, at the 

 Saunton End of Braunton Burrows. The spot where I found the 

 plant was a considerable distance from the sea, from which it is 

 separated by a very wide beach and also plain sand dunes. This 

 is a plant that does not appear to grow on the plain sand dune, 

 but in sandy turf associated with such plants as Viola Curtisii. 

 It had the appearance of being native, and there certainly could 

 have been no question of its having been brought to the spot in 

 ballast. Moreover, the seed being small and heavy, they could 

 not have been blown there from Westward Ho! Saunton End is 

 some eight or nine miles from Westward Ho !, and Braunton 

 Burrows extend for some six miles to the west of Saunton End, 

 and are separated from Westward Ho! by the wide estuary of the 

 River Taw. As the plant occurs on the sandy coasts of Normandy 

 and Brittany, there would appear to be no valid reason why it 

 should not be native on the sandy coasts of Devon. It was 

 plentiful in suitable ground, but did not appear to occur at all on 

 the sand dunes which, with the river, intercept it from Westward 

 Ho ! The object of this note is not to express an opinion, but to 

 state the facts as I observed them. The history of this plant in 

 Britain exemplifies the folly and mischief of sowing seeds in this 

 country of obscure foreign plants, which might reasonably be 

 expected to be truly native. Of course it is possible that whoever 

 sowed the seed at Westward Ho! also sowed it at Saunton, though 

 this seems scarcely probable. Perhaps Mr. Wainwright, who 

 wrote the note on its being sown at Westward Ho !, can throw 

 some light on the subject. — Frederick J. Hanbury. 



