STTORT NOTES 91 



Ulex: Galt.tt Planchon in Kent. We excluded this species 

 from the Flora of Kent (1899), although F. M. Webb reported it in 

 1.S74 from Huthlield Heath, where Mr. F. J. Hanbury and I could 

 only find U. minor Koth {^nanus Forster). Fleet-Surgeon C. (x. 

 Matthew, R.N., has sent me specimens of excellent U. G-allii from 

 the edge of a copse on a hill-side near St. Kadigund's Abbey, not far 

 from Dover, v.c. 15. I have seen strong forms of U. minor in Surrey 

 closely resembling U. GalUi in appearance, but with paler flowers, 

 and differing in tlie doral characters. — Eiiward S. Marshall. 



Arab[s PETR.EA Lam., var. graxdifolia Druce. This well- 

 marked variet}' has (as Mr. Druce maintains) been wrongly identitie I 

 with var. ambigua Fries, Mantissa, iii. p. 77 (lS12)=^i. ambigua 

 DC, Systema, ii. p. 281. This is, according to DC, Prodronins, i. 

 pp. 145-G, a biennial ; and neither his nor Fries's descriptions agree 

 at all well with the ISen Laoigh plant. A. ambigua a])paars to be a 

 distinct species, submiritinu, occurring in Siberia, Kanitschatk.i, 

 Unalaska, and Norway. — Edward S. Marshall. 



Status of Allium triquetrum in Britain. Readers of 

 Mr. Marshall's note may be interested in a leading article entitled 

 "A New Vegetable and its Origin," in Card. Chron. Nov. 8, 1918, 

 and correspondence in the following number by Messrs. Ceorge 

 llenslow, iieginald Farrer, and myself. 1 pointed out that A. tri- 

 qaetrum, common on the coast of Algeria, usually grows in southern 

 Europe in natural conditions approaching those in which it is now 

 being cultivated as a vegetable in N. Africa ; that in the S. of France 

 moist, shady places and borders of streams well describe the habitat ; 

 and in Cuernsey it is not infrequent in hedges ; and that Mr. Lestei'- 

 Carland calls it in Jersey '.'a naturalised alien and spreading." These 

 habitats correspond with those in Davey's Flora of Cornwall, but in 

 the Mediterranean region it usually grows within a few miles of the 

 sea coast ; whereas in Cornwall some of its stations are well inland. 

 If this plant grows as a native inland in Cornwall we should expect it 

 to grow still further from the hot coasts of the Riviera, notwith- 

 standing the temperate sea-breezes, but I believe this is not so. Can 

 it be that the plant is naturalized also on the Cote d'Azur, in common 

 with many others ? I still have no decided views on the question of 

 its status in Cornwall ; doubtless Dr. Stapf had good reason in 1917 

 for considering it an alien, whereas in his paper on the " Southern 

 Element in the British Flora" (Rot. Jahrb. 1914) he was doubtful. 

 I have a ])hotograph of A. triquctram growing with Hiurn angusti- 

 folium. and Apium nodiflorum in a shaded ditch close to Hyeres ; 

 and it is interesting to point out that Dr. Stapf says : " The Atlantic 

 element is ver^' prominent among the most widely diffused of the 

 southern species, and its prominence appears still more marked if we 

 take into consideration that the general presence of the Mediterranean 

 Apium nodiforum and Carduus pycnocephalus is probably due to 

 their great faculties for extending their area — the former as an 

 • aquatic, the latter as a waste-land plant (Proc. Liim. Soc. 1917, p. 88). 

 It, as Mr. Marshall and others suggest, this plant is a true member 

 of our Lusitanian group, its distribution and status in Portugal and 



