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densely intricate stems. It grows in large mats which are difficult to 

 separate, and disentangle for drying. The panicle branches are 

 strongly divaricately dichotomous. — W. G. Travis and J. A. 

 Wheldon. " I know of no name for this glandular sand-liill form of 

 tetrandrum. Not var. dunense. The label does not state if plant is 

 erect or prostrate." — C. E. Salmon. "'Yes, a divaricate form of 

 C. fe^m^i^mm with somewhat long internodes."—G. C. Druce. "C 

 tetrandrum.''— A. Bennett. 



Stellaria media VilL, var. Boraeana (Jord.). Sandy ground, 

 Formby, S. Lanes., v.-c. 59, April 14, 1913. —W. G Travis. "Under 

 aS'. apelala Ucria." — -E. S. Marshall. " I agree ; often a plant of poor 

 sandy soil." — C. E. Salmon. "Yes, apetala retains the older trivial; 

 comparative cultivation in rich soil is needed to decide its true grade." 

 — G. C. Druce. 



Stellaria neglecta Weihe. Narborough Bog, near Leicester, May 

 1913. — A. R. HoRwooD. "Yes." — E.S.Marshall. " Seems correct 

 so far as the habit, etc. goes, but it is impossible in the specimens to 

 see the relative length of the calyx and corolla." — A. Bennett. 



Stellaria media Yill., var. major Koch Syn. 118, (1837.) [Ref. 

 No. 9811]. Huscote, Northants, June 1913. Relying upon the seed 

 characters, rather than the habit, I am inclined to place this plant 

 with S. neglecta Weihe, under media, rather than to ally it with 

 umbrosa, from which it also differs in its hairy pedicels. This too is 

 its position in Groves' edition of Babi7igton's Ma7iuaL— G. C. Druce. 



Sagi^ia saginoides Dalla Torre. Perthshire, mountain N. of 

 Killin, July 31, 1912. May be distinguished, apparently, from all 

 forms of proGumbens (and I include scotica in this — with which it 

 grew) by its more compact growth, larger capsule and peculiar curve 

 of pedicel. The colour of the foliage (lost in drying, somewhat) also 

 seems a good character. — C. E. Salmon. 



Sagina maritima Don, var. prostrata Towns. Sea wall by the 

 Mersey, Garston, S. Lanes., v.-c. 59, July 18, 1913. This plant, 

 which has the appearance and colour of >S'. maritima when growing, 

 differs markedly from that species in having a distinct central 

 rosette, around which the prostrate stems radiate, closely appressed to 

 the ground. It is also more densely setose than any form of S. 

 maritima we have met with. We have never seen Townsend's 

 variety, but it agrees with the description so far as it goes. It seems 

 very unusual for >S'. maritima to produce a central rosette, but as S. 

 procumbens sometimes produces a flowering central stem, there is no 

 reason why S. maritima should not vary in the opposite direction. — 



