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Most  of  these  plants  are  V.  agrestis  JorcL,  but  there  may 
be  some  admixture.  They  are  by  no  means  typical. — E.I3. 
V. - •  Cornfield,  near  Loch  Skaill,  Orkneys,  v.c. 
Ill,  July  16,  1900. — Coll.  W.  A.  Shoolbred.  Comm.  S.  H. 
Bickham.  V.  derelicta  Jord.  Some  of  the  plants  are 
rather  unusually  large-flowered,  but  I  find  this  to  be 
commonly  the  case  in  the  Scotch  pansies.  The  specimens 
agree  exactly  with  others  so  named  by  me  for  Mr.  Marshall 
from  Melvich,  Sutherland.  A  very  well-prepared  set. — 
E.D. 
Dianthus  plumarius  L.  On  the  town  walls,  Conway, 
Carnarvonsh.,  v.c.  49,  July,  1912.  Were  it  not  that  the 
wralls  upon  which  this  pink  grows  are  protected  by  the 
cottage  gardens  beneath  them,  the  plant  would  long  ago 
have  ceased  to  exist,  and  it  is  little  more  than  a  garden 
denizen  though  it  has  lived  on  the  walls  for  at  least  eighty 
years. — S.  H.  Bickham. 
Silene  [am mint  a  Thore  ?] .  (Ref.  No.  4168).  Plentiful 
in  some  fields  of  Trifolium  incarnatum ,  near  Milverton, 
S.  Somerset,  v.c.  5,  May  25,  1915.  Annual,  rather  viscid  ; 
flowers  bright  rose.  Known  thereabouts  for  some  years, 
though  in  less  quantity;  doubtless  originally  introduced 
with  foreign  seed.  I  am  not  at  all  sure  about  the  name. 
8.  annulata  is  considered  by  Bony  &  Foucaud  to  be  a 
variety  of  8.  cretica  L.  (a  native  of  Greece,  &c.),  only 
differing  by  its  almost  globular  capsules  and  shorter 
carpophores.— Edward  S.  Marshall.  Silene  cretica  L. 
emend.,  Rohrbach  Monograph,  p.  167  (1868).  The 
carpophore  is  scarcely  reduced  sufficiently  to  fit  Thore’s 
description  of  S  annulata ,  now  considered  as  a  mere  form 
of  8.  cretica. — A.J.W. 
8.  dichotoma  Ehrh.  Field,  St.  Martha’s,  Guildford, 
Surrey,  v.c.  17,  Aug.,  1915.— Coll.  R.  M.  Kennedy.  Comm. 
J.  Comber.  Yes. — E.S.M. 
Stellaria  neglecta  Weihe.  Hedge  bank,  Keynsham, 
N.  Somerset,  v.c.  6,  May  17,  1915.— Ida  M.  Roper.  Yes, 
this  is  the  8.  neglecta  of  Weihe,  not  of  Babington. 
Marshall’s  var.  decipiens  is  distinguished,  according  to  the 
author,  by  its  bluntly  tubercled  seeds. — J.W.W. 
