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distant pairs of leaves ; leaves rather narrowly elliptical obtuse 

 (10x6-2 mm.), much shorter than the internodes, upper ones 

 narrower. Cymes terminal, usually few (2-3) flowered, sometimes 

 much more floriferous, terminal flower rather long pedieelled, laterals 

 sessile. Bracts subulate. Flowers large, rose (or white), 15-20 mm. 

 diam. Gtdi/x slender, sultlinear, c. 7^ mm. long, segments linear 

 lanceolate or subulate, appressed. Corolla tube white, at opening 

 about equalling or slightl}^ shorter than the calyx, usually lengthening 

 rapidly to very long and c. 1| times the calyx and very slender; lobes 

 elliptical, acute to obtuse. Stamens inserted at the top of the tube. 

 Capsule much (c. If) longer than the calyx, very narrow and 

 attenuate above. 



N. Pembrokeshire : grassy bank by the coast near Newport, with 

 Armeria, Calhina, Plantago Coronopas^ etc. N. France: Normandy, 

 Brittany; N.W. Spain; Portugal; Azores. Heaths, furze-heaths, 

 " often among tufts of III ex GalUi,'" waste land, hedgerows, road- 

 sides, footpaths, hill-slopes, cliffs, vineyards ; mostly near the coast. 



The perennial habit without a rosette and with sterile leafy shoots 

 cut this completely off from any of our other British Ervthneas. 



It is not safe at present to consider its origin in Pembrokeshire at 

 all delinitely. Masson's plant was grown at Kew, and is found in 

 lists of garden plants, but, so far as I am aware, is very uncommon in 

 this country. It seems probable that it would be more diflicult for 

 it to be spread from a garden to so natural a habitat than to arrive 

 dii'ect from one of its other natural habitats : possibly wild sea-fowl 

 carry it, or perhaps wind, as the seeds are so small. If this small 

 area should prove to be its only occurrence in this country, we may 

 have to do with a case of tlie recent arrival of an " Atlantic " species, 

 for all such must at some time have made a first invasion. On the 

 other hand, should it be found to be more widely spread in small 

 isolated areas, it would be more reasonable to suppose it a relic. In 

 either case, its discovery in Pembrokeshire is of great interest, and it 

 is to be hoped that Mr. Arnett may be able to continue the working 

 of this neglected district. 



JOSEPH ANDREWS AND HIS HEliBAUIUJyL. 



(Continued from p. 298.) 



II. The Heebauium. 

 Br G. S. BouLGER, F.L.S. 



Trifolium striatum L. *Cornard and on the Tunuili in Shar- 

 ford Meadow, June 13, 1745. The earliest Essex record is Black- 

 stone's in 17-16 for Langdon HiUs : in .August, 1737 Blackstone was 

 living at Maiden Ash, near Ongar (see El. Middlesex, 3J)0j. 



T. scABRUM L. St. Gregory's Croft [Sudbury]. June 10, 1745. 

 [Recorded for Suffolk -on the authority of liuy (U. Syn. ed. 1, 

 134-6; name corrected ed. 2, 191')-] 



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