ON STELLARIA UMBROSA AND §. NEGLECTA 151 
onore é Gloria di detta Santa in Roma posta nella Antica Contrada 
ad Ursum Pileatum, nella Vicinanza del Palazzo Liciniano celebre 
ne Sagri martirologgi.” 
ON STELLARIA UMBROSA AND §. NEGLEOCTA. 
By Rev. E. 8. Marswaty, M.A., F.L.S. 
In this Journal for 1902, pp. 214-5, I stated my belief that 
these two plants were forms of one species, proposing for hs neglecta 
the name of S. umbrosa Opiz var. decipiens. Mr. Arthur Bennett, 
to whose kindness in looking - authorities 7 am seats indebted, 
quotes pet a letter of Prof. Babi ngton, June 20th, 1860, 
A. G. More: ‘‘I think you are correct in jalacias Stellaria pa: 
and niga ; so that een specific identity was recognized long 
ago. last year I had excellent means of verifying the facts, as 
both plants grow plentifally in my present neighbourhood; my 
previous opinion has been confirmed, and Mr. H. W. Pugsley 
recently wrote that his own experience quite tallied. The best- 
marked differences appear to consist in wmbrosa having glabrous 
pedicels and sepals, and acutely tubercled seeds; whereas neglecta 
as the former organs hairy, and seeds with rounded tubercles, its 
petals are often slightly longer, and there is a difference in habit, 
not easy to describe on paper, but usually perceptible at a distance 
of several yards. Ihave not yet observed any intermediates, but 
where the two are (rarely) found in company these or be expected 
to occur. 8S. wnbrosa prefers drier, though shaded sp 
S. neglecta was ear A Bluff and siigeities in Cig Fi. 
Germ. i. 560 (1825), as follo 
ecandra, caulibus ari caakeatens dichotomis linea pilosa 
noliea foliis ovato-lanceolatis inferioribus _petiolatis, calycibus 
pubescentibus pedunculo sub anthes i longioribus, capsu ula calycem 
param st apa seminibus discoideis margine muricatis 
irca Menninghiiffen, Princip. Mindensis, ad margines rivu- 
‘ies Mai.—Jul. (Similis St.media, aqua differs foliis angustice/bias 
et lon lori ibus, ion oe floram sub anthesi saltem ot Moiearnl 
staminibus 10, jenduches de err baer compresso-d event 
bus, disco tuber culatis cirea margines muricibus So ectek cinctis, 
quibus notis accedit magis St. latifoliae, sed recedl 
caule ascendente, foliis smnibus basi angustiore sessilibus, adeoque 
magis ellipticis, neque in = caule . late sessilibus, tum peels 
ealyce — Hyeme neque floret neque usquam perstat, 
solet St. media. Weihe in Y litt,).” In the second edition (1886), 
p. 107, B Bluft, Esenbeck & Schauer gras it io Lio media 2 major. 
Other early varietal names are :—S. m a Klett in Rich. 
Fl. Leipzig (1880) ; b. neglecta Mert. & & Koch, Deutscht. Fl. (1881) 
and 8 major Koch (pro parte), Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv, ed. i. (1885), 
