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patent, its top —— -corymbose, its prickles very slender, 
eclining; rachis wavy, forming angles at each node; sepals 
hairy and felted, teinngralae sueaeahe, Ae sit te Primondi ial fruit- 
stalk short. Stamens exceeding styles. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Arenarta Luoypn Jordan as A British Prant. — On May 25th 
and 28th of | of last year the Rev. R. P. Murray and myself gathered, 
by the outlet of the Looe Pool and near Gunwalloe Church, and 
again between arti Green a i Bay, W. Cornwall, an 
Arenaria, which struck me as eedingly distinct-looking. On 
comparing it ‘witli: M. Lloyd's fake tion of A. Lloydii in his ‘ Fl. 
de l’Ouest de la France,’ I found it to coincide exactly with the 
bourho ames Lloyd, of Nantes, who replied: ‘“ Your 
on of] Arenaria are indeed A. Lloydii, the same as ours . 
- Babington, in a recent letter to ay, adheres 
to his statement in the ‘ Manual,’ ed. viii.: “I cannot distinguish 
A. Lloydii.”” Probably M. Lloyd is right, therefore, in placing it 
only as a var. of 4. i specimens of which, from Betty 
, W. Sutherland, are intermediate between the type and the 
Cornish plant was most characteristic. M. Lloyd’s characters are: 
“Greener, usually rigid, 2-6 cent. high; panicle short, rigid; 
eo with more stron y-marked nerves, fringed with arched 
” 
duller-coloured.—Epwarp 8. Mars Bais, 
Cornisn Prants. — Last May, Rev. R. P. Murray and myself 
gathered a Trifolium with golden flowers the colour being much 
the same as in 7. patens and T. B ee ee 
inclines to redex it to T. ocumbens V var. majus Koch, Syn. — is 
note : eal i think sia Tail it would be well worth while for 
pet wine the district in early summer to send a few 
