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the  hairs  are  gland-tipped,  so  that  it  is  my  forma  glandulosa. 
In  these  specimens  the  petals  are  narrow,  and  shorter  than 
the  sepals ;  as  a  rule  they  are  much  more  showy _ E.S.M. 
Arenaria  tenuifolia  L.,  var.  Cornfield  near  Welbury, 
Hitchin,  Herts.,  v.c.  20,  Sept.  8, 1912 _ J.  E.  Little.  Stamens 
apparently  five.  The  habit,  etc.,  of  this  seems  to  take  it  to 
var.  laxa  Willk.,  as  described  by  Rouy  &  Foucaud  (FI.  Fr.). 
I  have  not  the  original  description  by  me _ C.E.S.  There 
are  three  pieces  on  my  sheet.  One  is  quite  glabrous; 
another  has  a  few  of  the  calyces  glandular  ;  the  third  (a 
fine  plant,  seven  inches  high)  has  most  of  the  calyces  more 
or  less  glandular,  as  well  as  a  few  of  the  pedicels.  I  cannot 
regard  this  very  slight  divergence  as  varietal ;  but  the 
specimens  do  not  look  quite  like  our  ordinary  plant.  They 
agree  bettei,  on  the  whole,  with  Rouy  &  Foucaud’s 
description  of  Alsine  tenuifolia  Crantz,  laxa  Willk.,  than 
with  their  a.  Vaillantiana  DC ;  but  the  petals  are  at  least 
half  as  long  as  the  sepals,  instead  of  being  “  tres  courts  ou 
nuls.”— E.S.M. 
A.  leptoclados  Guss.,  [var.  viscidula  Rouy  &  Foucaud] 
(Ref.  No.  842).  Walls  at  Gogarth,  Great  Ormes  Head, 
Carnarvonsh.,  v.c.  49,  July  9,  1912 _ S.  H.  Bickham.  Mr. 
Bickham  admits  (in  lift.)  that  he  was  misled  by  the  great 
scabridity  of  this  form  ;  it  is  not  at  all  glandular,  and 
belongs  to  the  type  (a.  scabra  Rouy  &  Foucaud) _ E.S.M. 
Sagina  apetala  Ard.,  var.  prostrata  Bab.  Eastnor 
Park,  Herefordsh.  v.c.  86,  June  1912 _ A.  J.  Crosfield.  A 
weak  form  of  this,  I  believe,  rather  than  S.  Reuteri  Boiss. ; 
but  the  material  is  not  very  good _ E.S.M. 
S.  nivalis  Fr.  Ben  Lawers  (at  8000  ft.),  Mid  Perthsh., 
v.c.  88,  July  1912.  This  is  not  a  rare  plant  on  the 
Breadalbane  Range,  but  it  seems  to  be  dying  out  on  Ben 
Lawers.  I  do  not  see  it  in  the  Eastern  Ravine  at  all  now. 
In  the  well  known  station  on  the  Western  Ravine  the 
plants  are  only  about  inch  in  diameter.  I  do  not 
know  any  botanist  (or  collector)  who  knows  the  station 
these  are  taken  from,  though  some  of  them  are  evidently 
very  old  plants _ P.  Ewing. 
S.  nodosa  Fenzl,  var.  moniliformis  (S.  F.  W.  Meyer). 
In  bolt  holes  of  old  boiler  plates,  ironworks,  Askam,  N. 
