94 ALSINACEAE 



A form with short petals (var. brachypetala, Baker, in Bot. Exch. 

 Club, 91 (i86i\ also occurs. 



S. media, which is a very variable plant, is found abundantly in all 

 the bordering counties. 



S. umbrosa, Opiz and Eupr. in Opiz Saznam. 93 (1852). 



/S. Elisabethae, Schiiltz, Arch. Fl. 302. S. media, var. umbrosa, auct. 

 Alsine umbrosa, mihi. 



Top. Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 95. Nyman, iii. Fl. Oxf. 53. 

 Native. Septal. Shady hedgebanks on a sandy soil. Local and rare. 



A. or B. June- September. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1892. See Rep. of Bot. Exch. 



Club, 357, 1892. 



4. Kennet. In a shady hedge-bank near Aldermaston. 



5. Loddon. Near Arborfield. 



The seeds of the Arborfield specimens agree well with the de- 

 scription of those of the true plant, but the pedicels are slightly hairy. 



S. umbrosa is only recorded for Hampshire, Surrey, and Wiltshire of 

 the bordering counties. 



S. holostea, Linn. Sp. PI. 422 (1753). Greater Stitcfiwort, All Bones. 



Caryophyllus arvensis glaber, /lore majore, C. B. Pin. 210. Alsine holostea, 

 mihi. 



Top, Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 96, t. 230. Nyman, iii. Fl. Oxf. 53. 



Native. Septal, sylvestral. Hedges, wood-borders, spinneys, common, 

 and generally distributed. A great adornment of our hedgerows 

 in spring. P. April-June. 



First record. Stichumrt. It growes in Merley Wood and upon Hincksey 

 Hill by ye hedges, MS. in Lytes Herball, 1660. S. holostea, fre- 

 quent, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. With Uredo antheraruin, Grev. in 

 Bagley Wood, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 154. 

 Especially abundant on the margins of some of the woods on the 



Chalk. A plant with laciniate petals was noticed between Arborfield 



and Finchampstead (forma laciniata). I have seen it with purplish 



foliage on Stubbing's Heath. 



S. holostea occurs in all the bordering counties. Linnaeus spelt the 



specific name with a capital letter, but Lobelius wrote Holostium 



Euellii. 



S. palustris, Ehrh. Beitr. v. 176 (1790), (nom. nud.), Eetz. Fl. Scand. 



ed. 2, 106 (1795). 

 -S. (/lauca. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, iii. 420 (1796). S, media, Sibth. Fl. 



Oxon. 141 (not of Cyr.). Alsine palustris, mihi, not of Kellogg. 

 Top. Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 97, t. 231. Nyman, iii. Fl. Oxf. 53. 

 Native. Uliginal, paludal. Bogs, marshes, wet ditch-sides and 



