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Geranium piirpureum^ Yill., var. genuinum, R. and F. Lime- 

 stone rocks, Leigh Woods, N. Somerset (first noticed there by Dr 

 C. Moss), June 7, 1912, and Crantock, West Cornwall, June 25, 1912. 

 These small-flowered forms vary conspicuously from the type, but 

 it is usually difficult to fit them in with described varieties, and 

 one feels sorry that they may not be left under an aggregate parvi- 

 fiorum. The Leigh Woods plant has the glabrous, deeply wrinkled 

 carpels of purpureum-genuinum, though in other respects it might 

 pass for G. minutiflorum, Jord., as understood by the Var botanists. 

 The Cornish specimens do not exactly correspond, but I hardly think 

 their characters differ more than might be expected from a more 

 exposed situation close to the sea. — J. W. White. " Yes, the true 

 plant, with glabrous carpels and lov/er leaves, small flowers and 

 yellow anthers." — G. C. Druce. " Rouy's a genuinum, for which he 

 quotes G. purpureurriy Vill., should, of course, stand as the type. 

 Plant in good fruit, without flowers ; upper part, including calyx, 

 with many long, slender, gland-tipped hairs ; ripe seeds, dark brown ; 

 carpels hairy, dull brown (Rouy describes them as ' rougeatres ' in 

 his genuinum). If a form of G. purpiireum, which I doubt, the 

 fruit-character is rather that of y simile, Rouy (' carpelles brunatres ')." 

 — E. S. Marshall. 



Er odium cicutarium, L'Herit. [Ref. No. 35.] Sandy hedge- 

 bank above the marshes, Flixton, Suffolk E , v.-c. 25, Sept. 21, 1912. 

 — W. C. Barton. "Seems very near E. pilosum, var. vestitum^ 

 Clav." — J. A. Wheldon. 



Er odium pilosum, Bor., a. glutinosum, Clav. Autumnal form. 

 Sand dunes, St Anne's, West Lanes., v.-c. 60, Sept. 1912; also from 

 sand dunes, Ainsdale, S. Lanes., v.-c. 59, June 1912. The late 

 examples of this plant have a very different appearance, owing to 

 the long diffuse stems. — J. A. Wheldon. 



Erodium cicutarium, L'Herit., var. c. glandulosum, Bosch. [Ref. 

 No. 36.] Sandy coast, Grand Havre, Guernsey, Aug. 21, 1912. 

 Also from Lithou Island, Guernsey, on sand among bracken. [Ref. 

 No. 31.] Aug. 13, 1912. Also from Headon Hill, Isle of Wight, 

 v.-c. 10. [Ref. No. 32.] Sept. 1, 1912.— W. C. Barton. 



Erodium cicutarium, L'Herit. My Guernsey specimen No. 36 is 

 not ' densely glandular.' — J. Cryer. 



At present our knowledge of the British forms of cicutarium 

 is chaotic. Rouy and Foucaud put pilosum, Jord. as var. a. of 

 E. hipinnatum, Willd., itself subordinate to the aggregate E. cicu- 

 tarium, Alton, but the plant from St. A.nne's, although glandular. 



