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" Hah. Norv. arct., Lappon. Koss., Eossia arct. Spitzbergen. 

 Novaja Semlia. Waigatsch. (Iroenl. orient. 



"3. Subsp. NORVEGICA (Gunn.) Fries, foliis oblongo-obovatis 

 vel late obovatis, acutis, glabris, margine nudo vel parce et sparse 

 basi ciliato ; sepalis enervis vel subenervls, dorso glabris ; petalis 

 sepalis vix duplo longioribus, caulibus pedunculisque sparse pubeseen- 

 tibus, pedunculis raediocribus. 



" Hah. Norvegia : montibus Occident .... Finmarkia ; Suecia : 

 rarius, Jiiuitland et Lapponia ; Shetland : Uust ; Island : per totam 

 insulaiu distributa ; Groenland. occid. : . . . . : EUesmereland : Fram 

 Harbour ; Labrador (?) ; Canada : Mount Albert. 



" Syn. A. norvcgica G/iiinerus, Fl. Norveg. 11 (1772), no. 1100, 

 p. 144, tab. ix. fig. 7-9. Sowerhi/, English Botan3% Supp. t. 2852 

 (1843); Edmanston, Fl. Shetland, 1845, 27; Bahington, Man. 

 Brit. Botany, ed. 8 (1881), 58. 



"^. liumifusa Wahlenb., Fl. Lapp. (1812) 129. 



" ^, ciliata, subsp. norveqica (Grunn.) H. Fries, Fl. Suec. 

 Mantiss. ii. (1839) 34; Hooker, Student^s Flora (1884), 65. A. 

 ciliata, I. norvegica (Gunn.). F. N. Williams, Eevis. of Arenaria 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. (1898) 419. 



" A. ciliata var. liumifusa Hartman, Skand. Fl. ed. 4 (1843) 

 141." 



The authors cite specimens from Shetland (Unst, Beeby) : they do 

 not quote the W. Sutherland habitat, specimens thence not being in 

 the Copenhagen herbarium. They do not include A. gotliica Fries, 

 but merely mention it in a footnote. Having cultivated the Gotland 

 ])lant witli the Yorkshire one for some years, I quite agree with them 

 in this. They exclude the Swiss, Spanish, the Alps, Apennine and 

 Carpathian plants, noting that the Swiss plant "dilfert imprimis 

 multitudini ciliarum " ; but do not place these under another sub- 

 species. 



I have never been able to obtain living specimens of our norvegica 

 or ciliata ; if these could be obtained and cultivated side by side it 

 would maintain or disprove the authors" contention. The paper con- 

 tains much interesting matter besides that which has been quoted, and 

 should be consulted whenever possible by those working at Arenaria. 



Art H UK Beknett. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Pr-ANTAGO SABRiNiB Druce. In the Heport for 1914 of the Bota- 

 nical Exchange Club, p. 73, Mr. G. C. Druce writes: — " Plantago 

 CoKOiS'OPT's, var. sabriis^.t^ Baker and Cardew. I brought home roots 

 from the Steep Holme, and although the plant has increased in size 

 and in the elongation of the leaves, yet the facies and characters 

 remain distinct. I have dissected the ripe fruit and find as Miss 

 Cardew and Mr. Baker did, Report 28, 1911, that its alliance is with 

 Corono-pxis, not with Serraria which in appearance it closely resembles. 



