126 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



1914. Apparently identical with the plant distributed by Mr M'T. 

 Cowan, jun., from Hawthornden, v.-c. 83, in 1911, and named as 

 above by Mr G. C. Druce. — G. C. Brown. 



Silene inflata Sm. Sandscale, Dal ton, v.-c. 69b, July 7, 1914. 

 The plants produced very poor capsules and no seeds. The petals were 

 markedly cream-coloured until they were reaching maturity. — D. 

 LuMB. "A remarkable form; I have nothing like it, excepting a 

 plant which I gathered last July on bushy shingle near Seaton, South 

 Devon." — E. S. Marshall. Conf. S. vesicaria Schrad., var. puhescens 

 DC, sub. var. parvifolia Rouy." — J. A. Wheldon. 



Silene conica L. Roadside, dry sandy soil, Hilborough, v.-c. 28, 

 June 11, 1914. — F. Kobinson. Also from sandy land, Cockley Clay, 3 

 miles S.W. of Swaffham, W. Norfolk, v.-c. 28, June 23, 1914.— J. E. 

 Little. 



Silene anglica L., b. quinquevulnera L. Hay field, Cromer, v.-c 

 27, June 13, 1914. — F. Robinson. "Good S. quinquevulnera L. 

 This seems to me much nearer to S. gallica L. than to S. anglica L., of 

 which I cannot reckon it as a variety." — E. S. Marshall. " Yes, I 

 had no previous record for the county." — G. C. Druce. 



Silene Otites Wibel. Dry heath land, Barnham Common, W 

 Suffolk, June 1, 1914.— F. Robinson. 



Silene nutans L., var. duhia (Herbich) Williams Mon. Silene in 

 Jour7i. Li7in. Soc, vol. xxxii., p. 171 (1896). Shingle, Lydd, Kent, in 

 great quantity, July 1904. This appears to have been first described 

 by Scliur as S. transsylvanica in Oester. Bot. Zeit. viii. (1858), pp. 22 et 

 287. Herbich's duhia was published in his Flora Bucowina, p. 388, 

 (1859). In the Kew Index both names are merged into /S'. nutans, but 

 the publication of the latter wrongly cited as ex Rohrbach's Mono- 

 graph of 1868, and the date as usual is suppressed. Dr Williams in 

 his valuable Monograph (I.e.) put duhia as a variety of aS'. nutans, and 

 in the same year Rouy and Foucaud {Fl. Fr. iii., p. 144) cites S. duhia 

 and S. transsylvanica as synonyms of their variety suhverticillaris, the 

 description of which does not seem to happily fit our Kentish 

 plant, which Mr C. E. Salmon in 1905 first clearly showed was distinct 

 from S. nutans. The longer petioled and narrow, lanceolate-acute 

 stem leaves, which are not so strongly viscid as in S. nutans, and the 

 narrower and more cylindric calyx, are marks which he rightly 

 emphasises. If kept as a species, it should stand as S. transsylvanica 

 Schur ; if a sub-species, the authority is Nyman Consp. ; if a variety, 

 as in my British Plant List, then as S. nutans L., var. transsylvanica, 

 comb. nov. A red flowered form was still earlier described as a species 

 by Yestin Flora (1821), p. 50, as S. ruhens. — G. C. Druce. " Yes, this 



