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G. lucidum, Linn. 



3. Roadside close to St. Martin Church, 1919, Thurston. 

 Gribbin Head, Medlin. 



5. Roadside near Goonbell Halt, 1912, Rilstone. 



G. modestum, Jord. 



3. Ballast-heaps, Par Harbour, 1911, Druce, Journ. Bot., 1911, 

 p. 302; B.E.C., 1911, p. 79. 



7. Coverack, Rev. H. E. Fox, R.I.C., 1911, p. 378. 



G. modestum occurs in profusion over three separate areas in 

 Cornwall, all near the sea. There are no intermediates 

 between it and Robertianum. It has a rose-coloured corolla 

 just half the width of G. Robertianum . . .; corolla is more 

 irregular, petals narrower and not overlapping, anthers bright 

 yellow, not red, peduncles short, thick, and densely glandular- 

 hairy, carpels blunt above, covered with raised lines and dots. 

 I have tabulated the differences after examining many 

 hundreds of plants at each locality, and G. modestum appears 

 to be a perfectly good species, which is spreading from three 

 well defined centres in Cornwall. G. purpureum I only know 

 as a ballast casual at Par; it has purple anthers, and a curious 

 elongated zig-zag panicle in fruit. Mr. E. G. Baker carefully 

 examined my specimens with authentically named specimens 

 from France of G. modestum." Clement Reid, B.E.C., 1909, 

 pp. 429-30. See also note on "Geranium purpureum, Vill, 

 and G. Robertianium, L." by A. H. Evans, B.E.C., 1919, 

 pp. 724-26. 



Erodium cicutarium, L'Herit. 



6. Carne near Veryan; Pendower beach, Gerrans Bay, 1913, 

 Thurston. 



8. Lelant, Rees. St. Ives, 1912, Thurston. 



In a note on " Some segregates of Erodium cicutarium, L'Herit " 

 by Messrs. E. G. Baker and C. E. Salmon, the coast forms 

 are split into five new species. '* It would," they write, " be 

 very helpful if botanists, before drying their specimens, would 

 note the following points : Stem whether prostrate or ascend- 

 ing; size and colour of flower, and whether petals equal or 

 uneaual, spotted or not; colour of anthers, pollen, and stigma; 

 whether filament is subdentate or gradually enlarged." Journ. 

 Bot., 1920, pp. 121-27. 



