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which tbey had been sent from Plymouth, we could not detect any 
scent at all. Mr. Briggs says, " The calcareous district in which the 
plant occurs produces both odorata and hirta plentifully." We have 
not been able to identify it precisely with any of the numerous inter- 
mediate French forms described by Jordan and Boreau. 
Viola Cartisii, Forster, and F, subalosa, Boreau. Specimens ranging 
here have come before us this year from coast sandliills at Southport, 
Lancashire (J. E. Whallcy) ; Malahide, County Dublin (A. G. More) ; 
the Kerry coast (Dr. D. Moore) ; Newcastle, County Down, and the 
shore of Lough Neagh, near Shane's Castle, County Antrim (Rev. W. 
M. Hind). Mr. More considers the Malahide plant, which has some- 
times all purple and sometimes all yellow flowers, '' a mere form of V. 
tricolor'' It seems quite clearly shown now that both the purple- and 
yellow-flowered plant have the terminal lobe of the stipules sometimes 
toothed, as is also the case with the montane V, lutea. Such being 
the case, we do not see that there is any important character to rely 
upon to separate these perennial-rooted coast-sandhill Pansies from 
one another, and would consider them to form an intermediate link 
connecting the typical tricolor and typical lutea, 
Stellaria uliginom, Murr. Mr. J. T, BoswcU Syme sends a series of 
this plant, to show the change which takes place in the leaves as the year 
advances. The specimens have been gathered upon Hampstead Heath, 
Middlesex, and are in sets of three, gathered in July, September, and 
October respectively. Whilst in the July examples the leaves are sessile 
and barely narrowed below, in the October ones the upper leaves are 
distinctly spathulate, and in some of the lower ones the haft becomes 
a distinct petiole. It would be well for those who receive Professor 
Van Heurch's fasciculi to compare these with the stalked form of the 
plant which has been there given. 
Sperffularia.Vexs. With regard to this genus, Mr. More writes:— 
^'The usually-received names will again have to be changed. In a re- 
cent monograph. Dr. Kindberg has identified his L. neglectum with 
the Sjjergularia salina of Presl's 'Flora Cechica.' As this is the 
oldest name, our commonest seaside form will have to be thus called, 
whilst the i. salirmm of Tries and Kindberg is to receive the new 
name of L. leiospermum, Kindberg. Again, the name L. rupestre will 
have to be assigned to its oldest claimant, a Brazilian plant; and thus 
we are led to adopt Lebel's manuscript name of ru^icola for ours. 
