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panulatus, glaber, margine undulatus, 5 mm. longus. Corolla 

 pallide citrina, 6 cm. longa, e tubo basali subrecto, 15 cm. 

 longo, ampliata, ad staminum insertionem pnberula, uudiqiie pilis 

 minutis glanduliferis dense conspersa, lobis latis emarginatis. 

 Stamina inclusa, curvata, basi puberula. Ovarium oblongum. 

 Discus conicus. Fructus compressus, utrinque bibullatus, ovalis, 

 basi et apice acutus, 7'5 cm. longus, 3-7 cm. latus ; septum 

 apice bicorne velutsi morsum. Semina, alis inclusis, 2*5 cm. 

 lata, 2 cm. longa ; cotyledones basi et apice profunde emarginataB, 

 1-3 cm. latae, 8 mm. long^. 



Hab. Trinidad : Island of Carrera, in the Gulf of Paria, where 

 the phmt climbs over shrubs to a height of 5 or 6 ft. Here I col- 

 lected it in flower and fruit in April, 1896, and the Superintendent 

 of the Botanic Garden, Mr. J. H. Hart, has since found it there, 

 both in flower and fruit, in September ; without precise locality, 

 Fendhr (No. 518 in Herb. Kew). Venezuela : near the mouth of 

 the Orinoco, Bushy (in Herb. Coll. of Pharmacy, New York). 



I have sent seeds of the plant to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where 

 they have germinated. I have to thank Mr. I. H. Burkill, F.L.S., 

 for help in determining and diagnosing the plant for me. 



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[Dr. B. L. Robinson publishes in the Botcmical Gazette for March 

 last some notes on "New species and extended ranges of North 

 American CaryophyllaceiB,'" in the course of which he deals with the 

 nomenclature of Arenaria uliginosa Schleich. This being a British 

 plant, it seems worth while to reprint here Dr. Robinson's remarks, 

 which contain some interesting criticisms of the Index Kewensis 

 and of the practical working of the Madison amendment of the 

 '* Rochester Code." We are entirely at one with Dr. Robinson in 

 his condemnation of this amendment, and in his estimate of the 

 mischievous results which would follow its general adoption. — Ed. 

 JOURN. BoT.] 



This species, long known, although somewhat local, in alpine 

 and boreal regions of Europe, as well as in Siberia and Greenland, 

 has been collected on slaty detritus near Rama, northern Labrador, 

 at about 300 ^^ altitude, by Mr. J. D. Sornborger, August, 1897. 

 "While the species appears in Watson's Bibliographical Index, under 

 the name A. stricta, it has not, to the knowledge of the writer, been 

 hitherto observed upon continental America, its citation in the 

 hidex being due to the fact that Dr. Watson included Greenland in 

 the territory covered, as well as to the circumstance that he included 

 in his synonymy of the species in question the quite different 

 A. Bossii R. Br. A. uliginosa can readily be distinguished from any 

 of the related North American species by its foliage closely tufted at 

 the base and by its very long and slender almost naked stems and 

 IDeduncles. In these, as in all other observed characters, Mr, 



