74 TIIAXSACTIOXS OF THE [Sess. lxxxv 



up again. This seems to be the plant that Babington refers 

 to (Journal of Life, 1897, p. 298), in a letter to Professor 

 J. H. Balfour as received by him in 1846, gathered by Brand 

 (1807-1869), as he writes: "You have sent me a puzzle; 

 is it indeed from Yorkshire i " Babington referred it to 

 Kenyon's niaritima. 



Alefeld says his plant is described from 2 specimens of 

 Karelin and Kiriloff (Enum. pi. Soong., No. 539, 1841), 

 2 of V. allnfioixi in herb. Hooker, 8 from Scotland in 

 herb. Hooker (evidently an error for the Lancashire sheet), 

 and 3 from Yallais. Nyman separates arenaria from 

 maritiina, giving " Scotland " for the first, evidently from 

 Alefeld, and " Angl., Belg." for the latter. But I do not 

 think there is any real difference between the specimens 

 from the Isles of Borkum and Nordeney and the Lanca- 

 shire ones. And Dumortier (Bou(|. litt. Belg., 1869, p. 41) 

 identifies the Belgian plant with Koch's arenaria. The 

 earliest Lytham specimens I know of aro^ in the York. 

 Phil. Soc. Herbarium, " S. Hailstone, 1800." 



P. media, Swartz. 



This occurs in Caithness. On the Wick river at intervals I 

 Reisgill Burn, Thurso river above Giese, Lybster Burn ! 

 Side of Ben-a-chielt, c. 942 feet ! Scorriclett ! 



Li his Prod. Fl. Brit., part 8 (1911), p. 471, Dr. 

 Williams says, " fro)n Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, north- 

 ward to the Shetland Isles." But its southern limit is 

 Sussex, whence I have specimens gathered b}' my late friend 

 Mr. Beeby. 



This seems to vary little. 



P. iniMor, Linn., var. arenaria, Lant.-Beninga, Beit, 

 Kenn. Fl. Ost-frieslands'(1849), p. 40. 



Ardeer Sandhills, Ayr. Mr. J. Smith sp. 



" The spot is now threatened by the extension of a 

 dynamite factory." Williams, Prod. Fl. Brit. (1911), p. 472. 



P. i^eejunda,, Linn. 



" var. disper.^ijiora. racemo lioribus dispersis vel subdis- 

 persis (non secundus), (juae varietas primo sat insignis 

 videtur, sed transitus non desunt." Noi'iuan, Loco. Nat. 

 spec, in Arct. Norweg. (1864), p. 26. 



