(4) F.-N. WILLIAMS. NOTE SYNOPTIQUE SUR LK GENRE MOENCHIA. 60o 



r. Hormalis, 3-10 cm. 



f. macrior, 10-12 ad 20 cm. (= M. erecla var. major Pelermann). 



There are spécimens in Herb. Mus. Brit. from Biirgliaiisen near Leipzig. 



f. muia, 2 cm. 



This is a dwarf form, wilh small leaves crowded at Ihe base, collecled 

 by Mr. I. H. Biirkill on the clilTs of Guernsey, al Icart Point, in April 1891. 

 Spécimens in Herb. Kew. 



The species is met with in ail Ihe counlries of Western, Southern, and 

 Central Europe, and is absent from the northern and eastern parts of the 

 Continent. It is by no means a common plant : Lhough it occurs. perhaps 

 more frequently Ihan its records show, for being an early-flowering 

 annual ,it is easily overlooked. After flowering the plant dries up, and 

 becomes even less conspicuous, as Ray pointed out in bis first mention 

 of the plant. It does not occur outside Europe, and the limits given below 

 hâve been worked out from authentic spécimens and records. The plant 

 is found in England, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain. Portugal, Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Ilaly, and in two provinces of Austria (Küstenland and 

 Bohemia). 



LLMITS 



Northeri), England, oo° 40'. — Spécimens in H. C. Watson's herbarium at 

 Kevv, from the Spindleston hüls in Northumberland, collectedby W. Richardson 

 in 18o0, and from the basaltic rocks at Howick by G. R. Täte in 1831. Found 

 also on the basait at Ratchwood, near Belford, and further south in the sanie 

 county at Embleton (cf. Baker and Tait, FI. Northumberland and Durham [1867], 

 p. 133). 



Southern, Sicily, 37° 20'. — Todaro's spécimens from Valdemoue (Pi. sic. 

 exs. n. 6oo), and Tornabene's from the base of Mt. Etna, near Catania (FI. 

 iElnea I, [1889], p. 181). The plant occurs also on the Madonie hüls in the 

 Palermo district (Gussone), and other parts of the island, except in the Syracuse 

 district. 



Easleni, Prussia. 17°. — At the village of Tarnast, near Breslau, in the 

 province of Silesia (Garcke, FI. Deutschl., éd. 189o. p. 103). 



Western, Portugal, 8° 40'. — Near Oporto (ex Boletim d. Soc. Broteriana, 

 1887) ; near Coimbra, 1877 (FI. Lusit.. n. 284, ex herb. bort. Conimbricensi) ; 

 Serra da Caveira. above (jrandola (Da veau, 1880). 



The early history of the plant, and its distribution in England, are 

 discussed in a récent paper in the Journal of Botany, 1901, p. 365. 

 Dr. M. Gi^irke. in Richter's Plantse Europœœ, gives its range across Europe 



