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42 ; Mr Druce passed 39 and 41 as atheniensis, and expressed doubt 

 about 42. I have since compared these forms with the authoritative 

 No. 590 De Heldreich Herbarium Graecum Normale in British 

 Museum, and find my 39 agrees very closely in all respects, except 

 that its growth is more compact and it is less densely and coarsely 

 glandular-hairy. My 41 differs in growth, size of flower, fruit and 

 seed, and length of pedicel, and is less glandular-hairy ; the leaves 

 are scarcely ' mucronulate ' and the cymes more leafy. Seeds of 

 De Heldreich No. 590 as above, 15 — 18 : 33 mm. ; of my No. 39, 

 14 : 33 mm. ; of my 41 and 42, 35 — 42 : 33 mm. Another sheet in 

 British Museum, De Heldreich Herb. Gr. Norm., No. S3 \, Spergiilaria 

 campestris, Kindb., has seeds 30 — 34 : 33 mm., and to this much of 

 my No. 41 corresponds closely. (Kindberg, in his Monograph, gives 

 Lepigonum campestre as synonymous with Spergularia rubra, var. 

 atheniensis, Heldr. and Sart). I have a series of forms intermediate 

 between my 39 and 42. For comparison ; seeds of Spergularia 

 salina, Presl, var. c. neglecta, gathered in Guernsey measure 

 35 — 50 : 33 mm. — W. C. Barton. " Yes, this agrees with the 

 description of S. athenie7isis, Asch., in Rouy's Fl. Fra^ice.^' — C. E. 

 Salmon. " Probably all these come under athenie^isis.'' — G. C. Druce. 



Spergularia rubra, PresL Par, v.-c. 2, Aug. 30, 1912. I doubt 

 this being rubra, though sent under that name, as the stipules are not 

 lanceolate and silvery white. My specimen collected there some years 

 ago by Mr A. 0. Hume is queried also. May it be S. atheniensisl — 

 C. C. Yigurs. "I believe Dr Vigurs' plant to be aS'. atheniensis^ — 

 G. C. Druch:. " A more densely glandular form (from the very base) 

 than any I have met with." — E. S. Marshall. " The shape and colour 

 of stipules, &c., point to S. atheniensis rather than typical rubra.^^ 

 — C. E. Salmon. "Matches very closely No. 39 of Mr Barton's." — 

 J. Cryer. 



Claytonia perfoliata, Donn. Abundant near Sibil Hedingham, 

 Essex N., May 1912. Also seen near Colchester, and in Woolmer 

 Forest, by the roadside, Hants S. — G. C. Druce. 



Montia. In profusion on a bog on Chailey Common, Sussex, 

 May 20, 1912. It does not appear to be mentioned in Dr Arnold's 

 Sussex Flora. — A. Webster. " As far as I can see, the seeds agree 

 in character with those described by W. H. Beeby {An7i Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1909, p. 104) for the plant he called M. fontana, L., ssp. minor, 

 Gmelin, var. p iritermedia, Beeby." — C. E. Salmon. 



Montia fontana, L., var. rivularis, Gmel. I have preferred using 

 the name M. fontana, L., in accordance with the Lo7id. Cat. instead 

 of the arrangement in Rejwrt 1908, pp. 331 — 2, i.e. M. ver^ia, Neck., 



