4 BAILEY, Adventitious Vegetation of St. Anne' s-on-the-Sea. 



is never found out of their company. It is an occasional 

 plant on the sandy ground east and west of the railway 

 line. 



Silene sp. A dwarf catch-fly, about six inches in 

 height, having the look of S. noctiflora, Linn., has 

 occurred. By the courtesy of the Director of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, I submitted this plant, and many others in 

 this list, for naming or confirmation, but the authorities 

 there were unable to identify this species. 



Saponaria officinalis, Linn., is widely spread at St. 

 Anne's, but from the circumstance that the flowers are 

 generally double, it may be surmised to be of garden 

 origin. It is the most plentiful on the north side of St. 

 Anne's, especially about St. Leonard's Road and St. 

 George's Gardens. I have never found fruiting examples. 



Malva borealis, Wallm., = v1/. pusilta, Sm., was ex- 

 tremely abundant last year on a plot covered this year 

 with houses. The Lancashire species, M. rotundifolia, 

 Linn., was growing with it, both species fruiting freely. 



Melilotns officinalis, Lam., — M. arvensis, Wallr., and 

 M. alba, ~Desr., = M. vulgaris, Willd., are frequent plants, 

 the last-named being the less frequent of the two. 



Vicia villosa, Roth. The locality for this beautiful 

 claret-coloured vetch, reported as occurring five years ago 

 in the hollows of the sandhills on the north side of St. 

 Thomas's Church, has been overwhelmed by a large sand- 

 hill having drifted fifty yards to the eastward. I have 

 sought in vain for another station for the plant. 



CEnothera Lamarkiana, Seringe in DC, is the most 

 conspicuous of the aliens of St. Anne's, and grows in 

 profusion towards the north and the south, preferring the 

 sunny slopes of the sandhills. Old residents inform me 

 that they have known the plant for more than 20 years, 



