441 
Oct.  2,  1918.  Stems  branching,  creeping,  often  rooting. 
Sepals  and  Petals  often  4,  or  Sepals  5,  Petals  5,  or  Sepals  5, 
Petals  4.  Achenes  (?)  scantily  produced,  granulate ,  with¬ 
out  reticulation  or  striation.  Specimens  in  Herb.  Brit. 
Mus.  labelled  u  P.  procumbens  Sibth.”,  from  near  Marsh- 
moor,  Herts.,  1875;  and  from  Northaw,  Herts,  1874, 
collected  by  R.  A.  Pryor,  may  prove  to  be  the  same  plant! 
The  chalk  area  round  Hitchin  produces  pure  P.  reptans  L.; 
and  P.  erecta  Hampe  where  there  is  a  capping  of  clay  or 
gravel.  But  so  far  as  I  know  the  plant  here  distributed 
is  quite  lacking  from  our  immediate  district.— J.  E.  Little. 
P.  procumbens  x  reptans ,  I  think. — E.S.M.  (3)  Ref.  No.  70. 
Open  ground  in  Mulgrave  Woods,  Sandsend,  N.E.  Yorks,* 
v.c.  62,  Aug.,  1918.  Growing  in  great  abundance  in  grass, 
or  on  bare  places  in  the  turf  covering  lias  clay.  In  the 
latter  case  forming  a  loose  carpet  that  has  apparently 
spread  by  rooting  at  the  nodes  in  autumn,  though  no 
actual  roots  were  discoverable  at  the  nodes  at  this  time. 
Possibly  on  account  of  the  plants  thus  spreading  being 
young  the  root-stock  is  not  yet  greatly  thickened.  Leaves  : 
radical  5 -foliate;  stem  leaves  3— 5-foliate  with  large,  often 
cut,  stipules.  Stems  very  slender  like  thin  whipcord, 
sometimes  branched,  but  largely  simple,  prostrate.  Floivers 
(?  indiscriminately)  4 — 5-merous. 
Floral  bracts  (epicalyx,  outer  calyx)  4,  Sepals  4,  Petals  4 
or  „  5,  „  5,  „  4 
.  or  „  5,  „  5,  „  5 
No  fruit  seen.  Floral  bracts  as  broad  as  sepals,  not 
noticeably  different.  The  leaflets  resemble  P.  procumbens , 
in  that  the  base  is  cuneate,  not  rounded  (convex  in  outline), 
or  even  hollowed  out  (concave  in  outline)  to  point  of 
petiolule ;  the  serrations  are  longer  and  more  acute  than 
in  P.  reptans ,  but  absent  in  the  lower  half  of  the  leaflet. 
Stipules^  often  large  and  much  cut.  The  length  of  the 
claw  of  the  petals  apparently  similar  to  those  of  P. 
reptans.  Plants  growing  at  Sandsend  Station  upon  rock- 
ballast  produced  seed  pretty  freely,  having  achenes  with 
diagonal  striations  with  granulations  between.  If  the 
seed  character  is  to  be  relied  upon,  they  should  probably 
go  under  P.  procumbens.  Would  some  member  collect 
P.  procmnbens  in 
from  the  Pennines,  or  further  north, 
full  material,  to  show  roots,  leaves,  flowers,  and,  more 
particularly,  fruit. — J.  H  Little.  My  material  is  too 
