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cliff tops near Forth y Gamn. T. Griffith reports it from "all 

 along the S.W. coast of Anglesey, from Aberffraw to Holyhead." 



*Anthyllis mar it I ma Sch\yeigg. Grassy banks, cliffs near South 

 Stack. T. Most of the examj:)les gathered are typical as regards 

 hair-clothing and agree well with Schweigger's original description 

 (in Hagen, Chlor. Boruss. 205, 1819) as to this featm'e — " pilis in 

 caule petiolisque densis, adpressis." Growing however with these 

 plants were others provided with an abundance of conspicuous 

 spreacli/if/ ]nibescence on stems, petioles and margins of the leaves 

 and involucres giving the examples a very distinct apjDearance. 

 Corbiere (Fl. Norm. 148, 1894) noticed this variation, remarking 

 " poils ord. a])primes, mais parfois tres etales surtout dans le has dcs 

 tiges," and refers to " var. sericea Breb." for this form. If we turn, 

 however, to Brebisson (Fl. Norm. ed. 3, 83, 1859) we find simply — 

 " A. Vidne^-aria L. var. sericea. Tiges dressees ; fol. larges, cou- 

 vertes de poils soyeux, surtout en dessous t," Mdiich does not bear out 

 Corbiere's reference ; moreover, in ed. 5, 1879 Brebisson gives var. 

 inariiima Koch (equalling maritima Sclnveigg.) as a synonym of his 

 sericea. Thus the plant Avith the spreading hairs is left without a 

 distinguishing name and we propose to call it A. maritima Schweigg. 

 var. Corhierei. — Caules folia petiolique valde patento-villosse. 



Sedum Telepliium L. On sea cliff's in a cove at Clyb3'ddead near 

 Forth Dafarch. T. 



Smyrnium OJiisatrum L. Holy Island, 1891. S. 



DaifCKs ff a m??iifer JjMXik. var. *i)itermeclius Corb. On cliff tops 

 between South Stack and Forth Dafarch. T. The plants from this 

 locality seem to match, except in their being more hispid, the Dorset 

 form mentioned in tliis Journal for 1911, p. 364. As regards the 

 idtimate shajje of the fruiting head in these Anglesey plants, various 

 intermediate stages were particularly noted between the convex or 

 flattish umbel and the typical concave one of Carota. That accurate 

 observer of Anglesey plants, the Eev. HughDavies ( Wehli Botanology, 

 1813), evidently had this same plant under his notice when he wrote 

 (p. 27) — " D. mariiimns ; Sea-coast Carrot ; The plants (for there 

 were several of them), which I suppose to be this species, grew in 

 that same bay, Forth Dafarch, in the clefts of very steep rocks, but 

 out of my reach ; so that I could not examine them as minutely as 1 

 wished to have done. They bore, however, that distinctive character 

 of an Umbel in seed, perfectly flat, if not somewhat convex, and 

 larger than I had ever before observed." 



The B. maritimvs of Withering (Arr. Brit. Fl. ed. 3, ii. 290, 1796), 

 of which he gives a plate (t. xxxii.) in the 7th edition, ii (1830), 

 and calls the "Cornish Coast CaiTot " (p. 369), is the basis upon 

 which. Kouy and Camus (Fl. Fr. vii. p. 239, 1901) established their 

 B. (jvmmifer var. Witherinf/iaiivs. The only characters by which 

 they sei)arate it from tyjje are the broader more elongated divisions 

 of the involucre which exceed the umbel, as indicated in Withering's 

 drawing. This, however, is taken from a young example with the 

 flowers barely expanded and it is doubtful 'if this involucral feature 



t Corrected to "dcssuH" in ed. 4, 88, 18G9, and ed. 5, 107, 1879. 



