the country were well looked over, P. oxyptera would doubtless prove more 
frequent than we now know it to be. Grassy spots are the places it most 
frequents, and not so much in the ‘ hollows ’ of the sandhills.” — J. Har- 
bord Lewis. 
Poly gala austriaca, Crantz. “ Kough chalky bank on the border of 
Copsewood, Wve Downs, Kent.” — J. F. Duthie. The occurrence of 
this plant in Kent 1ms been already recorded by Mr. Duthie in the ‘ Jour- 
nal of Botany,’ 1871, p. 212. This is the typical form of the species, 
as it has the base of the capsule rounded, although the flowers are of a 
pale, dull blue, in spite of Reichenbach’s statement in ‘ FI. Germanica 
Excursoria,’ “ Flores semper albi.” But the colour of the flowers in 
Polygala is evidently of very little importance. It is to be hoped that 
some of the metropolitan botanists will endeavour to obtain a sufficient 
supply of this interesting addition to the Kentish flora for the Botanical 
Exchange Club. 
Sagina ciliata. Fries. Perth. — F. Buchanan White. 
Silene annulata , Thore. “ With Trifolium incarnation at Prospect, 
Western Peverill, Plymouth, Devon.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. Mr. 
Briggs states that he saw about twenty plants. 
Stellaria nemorum,,L. “ Canlochan, Forfarshire, 2500 to 2700 feet.” — 
J. Roy. 
Stellaria media , var. umbrosa. Breinton, Herefordshire, Augustin 
Ley ; Messing, Essex, E. G. Varenne ; Pirniss Wood, Balmuto, Fife, 
J. Boswell Syme ; and Bath, G. S. Streatfeild. The following remarks 
of the Rev.*G. S. Streatfeild are interesting, as being at variance with the 
experience of Mr. H. C. Watson, recorded in the compendium of the 
c Cybele Britannica,’ p. 492 : — “ I think it may be worth mention that in 
the specimens I send the petals were considerably longer than the sepals, 
•and that the anthers were of the same reddish-brown tint as those of Stel- 
laria graminea. Those, for all I know, may be usual characteristics of 
this variety, but so long were the petals, and so deceiving were the anthers, 
that when I first caught sight of it I thought it was the S. graminea. 
I found plenty of this same variety, but less strongly marked, near 
Bristol. It may be interesting to you to hear that I sowed some of the 
seed of the variety in my own garden, but it came up and flowered with 
not the slightest mark to distinguish it from the ordinary type. Even 
the acute tubercles of the seed, which you will see are strongly developed 
in the specimens from Bath, had entirely disappeared.” 
