804 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
C. pentandrum Syme? Near stream and in short turf, Carding 
Mill aw Church Stretton, Salop, Sept. 10th, 1903.—J. Cosmo 
Meu I have not seen the type of C. triviale Link, var. pen- 
‘evil wm ay once but these specimens answer the description in being 
pentandrous in the shorter capsule and size, but from being gathere ed 
in September are not in good condition. I should call it C. vul- 
gatum yar. pentandrum (Syme).—G. C, se i That var. is described 
Sir J. D. Hooker as an annual, found on sea-shores. Mr. Mel- 
vill’s plant looks like a late- flowering erected small-flowered, of 
compact stunted growth.—E. S. Marswatu. 
(This note is Sather example of the kind to which objection is 
taken in our prefatory note. It will be observed that Mr. Marshall's 
peregent objection has not prevented the publication of a new com- 
bination.—Ep, Journ. Bor ad 
Boom _ europeus Li, forma. From limestone rocks at top of 
a hillside wood, Cefn, Tlaceaalle (v.-c. 42), June, 1903. This un- 
usually lak, jens with cymes of v very few flowers, ‘generally one or 
two, is ape only caused by growing among other bushes. But 
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having ‘ Feuilles plus étroites. seinen amen ; 
pene non les plus grandes atteignant 6-7 cent. de e long rpetondiles 
2-4 flores; capsules plutét petites,” which appears to be near this 
plant, mlhias we should call /. ewropeus var. daayustifolius th ui. 
Mr, E. G. Baker says it requires comparison witli this va 
[Would it not have been better to have delayed the pablieatod 
of a new combination until the hag Sey suggested by Mr. E. G. 
Baker had been made ?—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Saaifraga Andrewsitti Haw. (S. Guthriana at er). Originally 
discovered by Mr. Andrews on rocks at head o Glen Curragh, Co. 
Kerry, but since sought in vain. Grown in garden at Prestwich 
for the last quarter of a century from specimens obtained from the 
Botanical Gardens at Cambridge, where the examples are labelled 
‘received from Mr. Andrews from Glen Curragh, Co. Kerry.” M 
brother and sister visited the Irish habitat two or three years ago, 
and well searched the mountain at the head of the Glen, where Mr. 
Andrews recorded the species, but the only Saxifrages they noted 
were wmbrosa and hirsuta. It has been by some considered a hybrid 
between wmbresa and Aizoon, the last not British, but I am not sure 
whether this has been proved. I have both these growing were 
and have never noticed the least tendency to hybridize. It is 
that the seeds oh ne are infertile; and this lends nase 
colour to the assumption of hybridity. Tt increases by barren 
shoots bostits rosettes very profusely, and is one of the handsomest 
