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F. Bastardi also occurred, and one hybrid plant [F. Bastardi x 

 Borcei) was observed, which was quite barren, as is usual in 

 Fumaria hybrids. 



F. PARADOXA Pugsley. Plentiful in a small field in Forest 

 Parish, Guernsey. New to the Channel Islands. 



When fresh, this is an extremely beautiful fumitory owing 

 to its long and graceful racemes and brilliantly coloured flowers. 

 The plant referred to in Mr. Marquand's Flora (p. 48) as probably 

 F. speciosa may belong here. 



F. Bastardi Bor. In Jersey, about Beaumont, and here and 

 there west of St. Aubin's, but much less abundant than the sub- 

 species Borcsi and rarely seen except in cultivated ground. In 

 Guernsey, in fields along the southern cliff's and at Cobo. 



Var. HiBERNicA Pugsley. With the type in a field at Cobo. 

 Very rarely, near Le Gouffre. Not before recorded for the 

 Channel Islands. 



Of F. capreolata, F. Borai subvar. sarniensis and F. Bastardi 

 var. Gussonei, which are already known to grow in these islands, 

 I failed to meet with any examples. 



Spergularia atheniensis Ascherson. At the foot of walls 

 about St. Helier's and in several places along the bay w'estwards, 

 almost as far as St. Aubin's. 



This plant, which is either spreading in Jersey or has been 

 generally passed over as ^S'. rubra, is reduced to a variety of 

 S. diandra Boiss. by Mr. Druce (Journ. Bot. p. 401, 1907), but 

 appears in Eouy & Foucaud's Fl. de France, iii. p. 311 (1896) as 

 a subspecies of ;S'. rubra Pers., to which it is evidently closely 

 related. 



Unless there is a difi'erence in the colour of the corolla which 

 cannot be detected in the dry state, the Jersey specimens exactly 

 match the Greek example " De Heldreich, Herb. Graec. Norm. 

 No. 590. S. rubra Presl.'? var. fi atheniensis Held, et Sart." on 

 which Ascherson's species is founded; and in addition, they agree 

 well with the description of Lepigonum campestrc of Kindberg's 

 Monograph, p. 35 (1863), which Ascherson cites as synonymous. 



As Kindberg points out, S. atheniensis is intermediate between 

 S. rubra and S. salina Presl., and in general features it is perhaps 

 rather nearer the latter. Its more branching and floriferous 

 habit, greater glandular development, longer leaves, dull and 

 broadly triangular instead of silvery, lanceolate stipules, shorter 

 pedicels, and purplish-pink instead of lavender corollas separate 

 it from S. rubra : while S. salina is distinguishable by its usually 

 less branching habit and fewer glands, white-eyed instead of 

 concolorous corollas, larger capsules, and roundish seeds at least 

 twice as large as the very small pyriform seeds of S. atheniensis. 

 These latter seeds seem indistinguishable both in size and shape 

 from those of S. rubra. 



It would appear from the Botanical Exchange Club Report for 

 1912 (p. 238) that specimens varying between S. atheniensis and 

 S. salina have been collected by Mr. W. C. Barton in Guernsey, 



