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papillz. The centre of each stigma i is Bac is pe: by a fibro-vascular 
strand with annular vessels. Examination of young flower-buds 
shows that the fertilization of the ree s effected in this closed 
condition. Not only can loose BE pollen-grains be seen 
adhering to stigmas, but it is usually the case that these have 
developed pollen-tubes. In the instalments which have appeared 
in this Journal of Mr. F. N. Williams's “Critical Notes on some 
Species of Cerastium,” it is interesting to recall that there are two 
forms of the genus (both referred to C. glomeratum as varieties) 
which stand csi from typical C. ijemeas ane In much the same way 
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represent a series of sligealagians states rather than varieties. 
I find that var. apetalwm usually grows with ordinary C. glomeratum, 
so the cleistogamy is pessaee due to neither the influence of soil nor 
light.—Cuarues EK. Bri 
nigtoery ee acec in Cuesuire. — My correspondent of 
8, Miss E. Foulkes Epics of Chister, formerly of Llan- 
silin in “Denbighshire, last autumn sent me her entire herbarium 
to examine for Salopian, Denbigh, Montgomery, and other records. 
In it I found a sheet of Euphorbia Portlandica L. marked ‘‘ Hoylake, 
Bell, 1869.” As this species had not been reported for Cheshire 
in any Flora of Liverpool, nor observed by me during a visit to 
Hoylake in 1898, though I saw it abundantly on quite similar 
ground near Blundellsands in the same month, I made special 
q view of another species admittedly represented by a 
specimen taken into Mr. Bell’s garden, ain originally found = 
an escape) as to whether it might not be e# hort., and only re 
sentative of the north of rater locality Mr. Bell stated that 
Miss Jones’s plant ¢ ihre not from his garden, nor from 
Blundellsands, and promised i. ‘look out for it in the following 
sprin uestion is now at rest. I have this eres 
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cola gathered by Mr. Bell on June 4 é 
in which that gentleman, who resides at Greenfield, West Kirby, 
as ‘‘on the banks of the Dee, between 
sone ke and West Kirby.” Poke ies is not mentioned in Lord 
de Tabley’s Flora of — But, curiously, it is named for 
Cheshire in Top. Bot. ed. ii. on the authority of Lord de Tabley 
himself—* J. L. Warren, cat.”—Wiiiam WHItTwELL. 
Marntona 
attention to a robles 0 
Chichester Natural History Society, No. 8, new series 
"26-98. hat i . Arn ee Spiraea by Mr. 
Mr. Postans 
which I cannot distinguish ae "Mathiola incana grows on the 
cliffs at Rottingdean, near Brighton, and has been growing tiers | in 
