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clothed Avith it in the neighbourhood of E,amsey, Douglas^ 

 and Peel, and I noticed it too on the rocks on which Peel 

 Castle is built. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Inquiry eespecting Senecio saracenicus. By J. G. Baker. 



"It is evident," writes M. Godi'on ('Elore de France,' vol. ii. p. 118), 

 " that under the name of 8. saraceniciis Linnseus has confounded two dis- 

 tinct species. First, that which he has cultivated in the Upsal Botanic 

 Garden and which is clearly distinguished by its ' great size and mostly 

 creeping root.' This grows in the plains, upon the banks of streams, and 

 especially in osier-gTounds, and is the *S^. salicetormn of the ' Flore de 

 Lorraine.' Second, the other, to which appHes not only the synonym of 

 Fuchsias, but all the synonyms quoted by Linnseus (excepting that of the 

 Hortus Upsalieusis), and to which also belong, without exception, all the 

 locabties in which Linnseus indicates his plant." The last-mentioned of 

 these is the S. Fuchsii of Gmelin and Koch, and may be known by its 

 oblique root-stock and short stoloniform buds ; the other is the plant 

 which bears so much the appearance of an indigenous Britoii, about Sea- 

 bergh, Milton, and other places in West Yorkshire and Lancashire. But 

 may we not be uniting more than one species under the name of S. sara- 

 ceniciis, in this country ? A specimen, received some time ago through 

 the medium of the Loudon Botanical Society from one of the Edinburgh- 

 shire stations, is plaiidy S. Boria of Linnaeus, a native of the South of 

 Europe, recognizable by its finely serrated fleshy leaves, semi-amplexicaul 

 and subdecurrent on the middle of the stem, and hairy seeds. Perhaps 

 some of the readers of the ' Phytologist ' may be able to furnish farther 

 information on this matter. 



TJdrsJc, 29, 2, 1856. 



Maritime Sagin^. By J. G. Baker. 

 Sagina, Linn. — Sect x., sepals, petals, styles, and valves of capsules, 4. 



Stirps S. maritime. — Central stems forked and elongated, mostly gla- 

 brous. Leaves and sepals blunt and awnless. 



1. S. maritima, Don. — S.stricta, Fries. Stems moderately branched, 

 erect ; peduncles rigid, erect, ascending. Leaves blunter than in the others. 

 Sepals less concave, ou.ter pair nearly equalling the oval truncate subsessde 

 capsule. — Jord. PI. CriL, fray. 3, tab. 5, fiy. A. Sandy seashores ; not 

 uncommon. 



3. *S'. densa, Jord. — Stems much branched, erect, forming dense tufts ; 

 peduncles short, rigid, ascending. Leaves narrower than in the others. 

 Oater sepals equalling the capsule, which is less oval than in the others, and 

 stalked. — Jord. tab. cit.Jig. B. Christchurch, Hants, and probably Wis- 

 beach, Camb. — Bab. Man. 4. Coatham marshes, N. Yorks. ! — J. G. Baker. 



3. S. debilis, .lord. — Stems sparingly branched, suberect or procumbent ; 

 peduncles long, drooping, filiform. Outer sepals equalling the stalked oval 

 capsule.— /ori. tab. clt.fig. C. "Often caVLad S. maritima in England.'^^ 

 — Babington. Our specimens are from Coatham, N. Yorks. 



