sequence.” Since I wrote the above Dr. Boswell has forwarded the 
following note with reference to this plant: “ Certainly C. tetrandrum. 
Mr. J. F. Duthie collected the true triviale , var. pentandrum , near 
Marlborough in 1875.” I have found what seems the same form of 
tetrandrum as this plant of Mr. Ley’s growing on a wall on the coast 
above Bigbury Bay, S. Devon. Its flowers also had five stamens. — 
T. R. A. B. ' 
Cerastium pumilum, Curt. “ Wigwold Common, Gloucestershire, 
May, 1875.” — J. F. Duthie. A good supply of a plant asked for 
by many members of the Club. The capsule in these specimens from 
Mr. Duthie is considerably longer than in some which I have had 
recently fresh from Torquay through the kindness of Mr. F. Towns- 
end. — T. It. A. B. 
Cerastium trivale, Link., var. b. holosteoides. “Bank of Tay, near 
Perth, Co. Perth, July 29, 1875. The specimens sent were gathered 
in the noted Perth habitat, pretty late in the season- Whether that be 
the reason or not I do not know, but I cannot find among my specimens 
any the sepals of which can be said to be glabrous, although they were 
collected at all parts of the bank below high-water mark ; while all the 
other characters of this variety, including the large flowers, are well 
enough represented.” — Tom Drummond. (See Rep. B. E. C., 1872-74, 
pp. 11, 12.) 
Stellar ia uliginosa , Murr. “Specimen showing the perennial 
character of the plant. (See Journ. Bot., vol. ii., n.s., p. 175.) By 
a stream, Tamerton Foliott, S. Devon, March 31, 1875.” — T. R. 
Archer. Briggs. It is long since I have been aware that this plant 
was a perennial. In 1864 I sent to the Thirsk Bot. Ex. Club examples 
of the autumnal state of S. uliginosa , showing the barren shoots de- 
veloped in autumn, which have the leaves stalked, not sessile as in the 
flowering-stems. These specimens are noticed by the Curator of the 
B. E. Club in the Report for 1864. I think my specimens were 
gathered in 1863, too late to be noticed in the description of the plant 
in “ English Botany,” ed 3. The same feature occurs in Veronica 
Chamcednjs , which has the autumnal barren shoots furnished with 
stalked leaves, though the spring and summer flowering shoots have 
sessile or subsessile leaves. This fact also I was not aware of when I 
was writing the description of the plant for “ English Botany,” ed. 3. 
— J. T. Boswell. 
Spergularia marginata, Syme, E. B., var. having the calyces and 
pedicels decidedly glandular hairy. “ From a rocky and stony spot 
by Weston Mill Lake, a tidal inlet from the Tamar, S. Devon, June, 
1875 ; also from the shore of Ilooe Lake, a tidal inlet from the Plym 
estuary, July, 1875.” Notwithstanding the short glandular hairs on 
