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sequence." Since I wrote the above Dr. Boswell has forwarded the 

 following note with reference to this plant: " Certainly C. tetrandrum. 

 Mr. J. i\ Duthie collected the true triviaU, var. pentandrum, near 

 Marlborough iu 1875." I hive found what seems the same form of 

 tetrmidruin as this plant of Mr. Ley's growing on a wall on the coast 

 above Bigbury Bay, S. Devon. Its flowers also had five stamens. — 

 T. R. A. B. 



Cerastium pumilum, Curt. " Wigwold Common, Gloucestershire, 

 May, 1875." — J. F. Duthie. A good supply of a plant asked for 

 by many members of the Club. The capsule in these specimens from 

 Mr. Duthie is considerably longer than in some which I have had 

 recently fresli from Torquay through the kindness of Mr. F. Towns- 

 end.— T. R. A. B. 



Cerastium triviale, Link. var. h. holosteoides. " Bank of Tay, near 

 Perth, Co. Perth, July 29, 1875. The specimens sent were gathered 

 in the noted Perth habitat, pretty late in the season. Whether that be 

 the reason or not I do not know, but I cannot find among ray specimens 

 any the sepals of which can be said to be glabrous, although they were 

 collected at all parts of the bank below high- water mark ; while all the 

 other characters of this variety, including the large flowers, are well 

 enough represented." — Tom Drummond. (See Rep. B. E. C, 1872-74, 

 pp. 11, 12.) 



Stcllnria uliginom, Murr. '•' Specimen showing the perennial 

 character of the plant. (See Journ. Bot., vol. ii., n.s., p. 175.) By 

 a stream, Tamerton Foliott, S. Devon, March 31, 1875." — T. li. 

 Akchek Briggs. It is long since I have been aware that this plant 

 was a perennial. In 1864 I sent to the Thirsk Bot. Ex. Club examples 

 of the autumnal state of 8. uliginosa, showing the barren shDots de- 

 veloped in autumn, which have the leaves stalked, not sessile as in the 

 flowering-stems. These specimens are noticed by the Curator of the 

 B, E. Club in the Report for 1864. I think my specimens were 

 gathered in 1863, too late to be noticed in the description of the plant 

 in " English Botany," ed, 3. The same feature occurs in Veronica 

 Chamcedrys, which has the autumnal barren shoots furnished with 

 stalked leaves, though the spring and summer flowering shoots have 

 sessile or subsessile leaves. This fact also I was not aware of when I 

 was writing the description of the plant for " English Botany," ed. 3. 



J. T. BOSAVELL. 



Spergularia marginata, Syme, E. B., var. having the calyces and 

 pedicels decidedly glandular hairy. " From a rocky and stony spot 

 by "Weston Mill Lake, a tidal inlet from the Tamar, S. Devon, June, 

 1875 ; also from the shore of Hooe Lake, a tidal inlet from the Plym 

 estuary, July, 1875." Notwithstanding the short glandular hairs on 

 the upper portions of these specimens, they are clearly the margi- 

 nata of " Eng. Bot.," by the seeds. Mr. Chas. Bailey sends a large 

 number of specimens from the " edges of a tidal drain on the eastern 

 side of the Llandudno Railway, near Castell Diganwy, N. Carnarvon- 

 shire," some of which have the youngest pedicels and calyces more or 

 less hairy, the hairs mostly disappearing as the parts mature, and. 

 never forming a noticeable feature, as in the Plymouth examples. — 

 T. R. A. B. 



iSperguIaria rupestris, Lon. Cat., var. b. glabrcscens, Lebel. " Cliff 



