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of tint in the flowers are perhaps the best practical distinctions in the 
living plants. The relative position of open flowers and unopened buds 
is somewhat uncertain; and the forms of the stem leaves vary with the 
vigour of the plants."—H. C. Watson. : i 
Polygala oxyptera, Reich. Sandhills, Wallasey, Cheshire. * In * Eng- 
itp. 
combe. As the Polygala is, with us, a sandhill plant, Wallasey must have 
been intended when Seacombe was quoted. On the Cheshire side the 
plant grows at Hoylake and Wallasey in great quantity. On the Lan- 
cashire side it grows at Waterloo and Formby. If the sandhills round 
the country were well looked over, P. ozyptera would doubtless prove more 
frequent than we now know it to be. Grassy spots are the places it most — 
frequents, and not so much in the * hollows " of the sandhills."—J. Har- 
olygala austriaca, Crantz. “ Rough chalky bank on the border of 
D >—J. F. DurHtE. The occ f 
E. 
Silene annulata, Thore. “With Trifolium incarnatum at Prospect, 
Western Peverill, Plymouth, Devon.” —T. R. Arcuer Briees. Mr. 
Briggs states that he saw about twenty plants. , 
: Stellaria nemorum, L, * Canlochan, Forfarshire, 2500 to 2700 feet."— 
. X. 
Stellaria media, Vill. var. umbrosa. Breinton, Herefordshire, AUGUSTIN 
Ley; V WwW 
experience of Mr. H. ^ 
: Cybele Britannica, p. 492 :—* I think it may be worth mention that in 
the specimens I send the petals were considerably longer than the sepals, 
o 
not the slightest mark to distinguish it fr dinary type. Hver 
guish it from the ordinary type 
- e: baa of the seed, which you will see are strongly developed 
€ specimens from Bath, had entirely disappeared." 
Stellaria Holostea, L., var. with foliaccous panicles, “ Bank by the Ply- 
mouth and Tavistock Road, Devon.”—T. R. Arcner Brioas. A 
carious monstrosity, in which the flowers are replaced by series of sepal- 
like organs, arranged in alternate pairs one within the other. 
