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is confined to a single spot on the dunes, but there it is very 

 abundant and increasing. Some of the plants have very large 

 woody tap-roots ; but I believe the plant has been introduced 

 within the last twenty years, as it is scarcely possible for so con- 

 spicuous and beautiful a species to have escaped attention. The 

 flowers are deliciously fragrant. — fZX deltoid es L. One spot near 

 Bouley Bay (Mr. Piquet). 



Cerastium tetrandrum Curt. In all the islands, but the drought 

 had dried it up in most cases. On the cliffs near Essex Castle, 

 Alderney, a plant allied to this occurs ; it is similar to one I found 

 on a colline near Hy6res. The leaves are broader and a darker 

 green than the type, and the plant forms dense tufts ; the peduncles 

 are elongated. — C. vulgatum L. (C triviale Link). At St. Aubin's, 

 Jersey, a form occurred as a tall rigid plant having clustered 

 cymes and short capsules, and shorter, broader, and less acuminate 

 sepals. That this is not the result of dryness of soil is shown by 

 some plants which I gathered in the driest parts of the Quenvais, 

 which, although much reduced in size (about a sixth of the 

 St. Aubin's plant), have the long peduncle, the long capsule, and 

 more acute and narrow sepals of the typical plant. In other 

 plants from the Quenvais and St. Aubin's the sepals were very 

 narrow and elongate, suggesting the influence of tetrandrum. — 

 IVar. pent and rum Syme. This annual dwarfed form occurred at 

 Petit Bot Bay, Guernsey. 



Sagina maritima Don. At St. Helier's, Jersey, and at Vazon, 

 Guernsey, it occurred as the var. densa (Jord.) ; in Alderney, at 

 the Corblets, and on West Mount, Jersey, as the var. debilis 

 (Jord.). A plant from Fort Essex, Alderney, is near var. prostrata 

 Towns. — S. apetala Ard. Common and luxuriant in all the islands. 

 — S. ciliata Fries. jDicart; new to Sark. In Alderney very 

 uxuriant as the var. ambigua at Corblets. Also on West Mount, 

 Jersey. — Var. patula (Jord.). At St. Helier's, &c, Jersey, and 

 Alderney ; and it is the commoner form in Guernsey. Marquand 

 says patula has glandular peduncles. Some of the plants were 

 large, prostrate, and very glandular. All four species of Sagina 

 grew close to the Grand Hotel, Jersey. 



Arenaria lep>toclados Guss. jvar. visoidula Rouy & Fouc. At 

 Corblets, Alderney, and the Quenvais, Jersey. — A. serpyllifolia L. 

 In all the islands ; and as the var. macrocarpa Lloyd on the 

 Quenvais, Jersey. 



Stellar ia media With. var. apetala Gaudin (S. Borceana Jord.). 

 Plentiful at St. Aubin's, Jersey, and L'Ancresse, Guernsey. 



Spergula arvensis L. (S. vulgaris Boenn.). Alone noticed. 

 Near La Vallette, Sark, a very large form was observed with larger 

 flowers than the normal plant ; it is near to, if not identical with, 

 the tvar. maxima Weihe. — Var. nana E. F. Linton. In our chief 

 floras the habitat of Spergula arvensis is given as " cultivated 

 ground," and its time of flowering from "June to August." Dunn, 

 in the Alien Flora, it is true, says: u Native on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean Sea, and, more rarely so, in other parts of Europe, 

 including Britain. In this country it is, however, much more 



