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Spergularia marginata, Kittel. Mud flats, Hayling Island, S. 

 Hants., v.-c. 11, Aug. 1912. — J. Comber. "Yes; the >S^. meo?m, Presl. 

 In this the peduncles and calyces are glandular." — G. C. Druce. "I 

 agree." — C. E. Salmon. 



Spergularia marginata^ Kittel. Penpoll Creek, River Gannel, 

 Newquay, West Cornwall, v.- c. 1, Aug. 22, 1912. On wet mud banks. 

 — C. C. ViGURS. Yes ; the typical glabrous plant the older name for 

 which is >S^. media, Presl, and of Lebel Revis, p. 25, a trivial which 

 has, however, been used for other species." — G. C. Druce. "Yes; a 

 straggling form of the type." — E. S. Marshall and C. E. Salmon. 



Spergularia salina, Presl. Near Cheviot River Gannel, New- 

 quay, West Cornwall, v.-c. 1, June 7, 1912.— C. C. Yigurs. "The 

 seeds are papillate, hence the var. neglecta. Rouy and Foucaud (Fl. 

 Fr.) group the various forms of this polymorphic plant under S. 

 Dillenii, Lebel Rev. Sperg. p. 27." — G. C. Druce. " This is practi- 

 cally glabrous and seems correctly named, yet it has the obviously 

 papillate seeds that some authors ascribe to neglectum, Kindb. 

 Syme distinctly states that his S. neglecta, /5 salina, Presl, should have 

 'seeds without papillae,' and Rouy remarks, under >S'. salina, Presl, 

 ' graines seulement chagrinees.' " — C. E. Salmon. 



Spergularia salina, Presl, var. neglecta, Syme. On sandy mud, 

 Porth, Newquay, West Cornwall, v.-c. 1, May 19, 1912.— C. C. 

 YiGURS. " Although the pedicels are glandular, the seeds are quite 

 smooth (not papillose) ; I believe that it comes under the type " — E. 

 S. Marshall. "This seems to agree with the description of the plant 

 called ' S. 7ieglecta, a genuina ( = Lep. neglectum, Kindb. ) ' by Syme. 

 It complies also with Hooker's idea of the plant ( Stud. Fl.). I have 

 not seen Kindberg's type or original description and Rouy (and also 

 Giirke) do not fall in line with our British handbooks as they make 

 L. neglectum, Kindb. a synonym of S. saliyia, Presl." — C. E. Salmon. 

 " My specimen has papillate seeds, and is therefore neglecta, and Mr 

 Barton tells me his sheets of both this and the preceeding are 

 neglecta." — G. C. Druce. 



Spergularia [diandra, Boiss], var. atheniensis, H. and S. [Ref. 

 Nos. 39, 41, 42.] Leree, Guernsey, Aug. 13, 1912. Mr Druce says 

 in lit. 'quite the same Spergularia as I got in Jersey in 1906, but 

 in a place now denuded of plants on the foreshore. It is the 

 Mediterranean atheniensis I well believe, or if not that, a new species, 

 but it agrees very closely with an authentic specimen that I have 

 gathered on the Grecian coast. It differs from rubra by its stipules 

 and in the absence of the central rosette. The fruits are smaller 

 than in salina.^ Of the three Spergularias I have, numbered 39, 41, 



