curator's report for 1864 . 
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opened out in the basket in which they had been sent from Plymouth 
we could not detect any scent at all. Mr Briggs says that “The 
calcareous district in which the plant occurs produces both odorata 
and hirta plentifully.” We have not been able to identify it precisely 
with any of the numerous intermediate French forms described by 
Jordan and Boreau. 
Virta Curtisii Forster. V. sabulosa Boreau. Specimens 
ranging here have come before us this year from coast sandhills at 
Southport, Lancashire (J. E. Whallev), Malahide Co., Dublin 
( A. G. More), the Kerry coast ( Dr. D. Moore), Newcastle, Co. 
Down and the shore of Lough Neagh, near Shanes Castle, Co. 
Antrim (Rev. W. M. Hind). Mr. More considers the Malahide 
plant, which has sometimes all purple and sometimes all yellow 
flowers, a more form of V. tricolor. It seems quite clearly shown 
now that both the purple and yellow flowered plant have the termi- 
nal lobe of the stipules sometimes toothed, as is also the case with 
the montane V. lutea. Such being the case we do not see that there 
is any important character to rely upon to separate these perennial- 
rooted coast sandhills pansies from one another, and would consider 
them to form an intermediate link connecting the typical tricolor 
and typical lutea. 
Stellaria uliginosa. Mr. J. T. Boswell Syme sends a series 
of this plant to shew the change which takes place in the leaves as 
the year advances. The specimens have been gathered upon Hamp- 
stead heath, Middlesex, and are in sets of three, gathered in July, 
September and October respectively. Whilst in the July examples 
the leaves are sessile and barely narrowed below, in the October ones 
the upper leaves are distinctly spathulate and in some of the lower 
ones the haft becomes a distinct petiole. It would be well for those 
who receive Professor Van Heurck’s fasciculi to compare these with 
the stalked form of the plant which has been there given. 
Spergularia. AVith regard to this genus Mr. More writes 
“ The usually received names will again have to be changed. In a 
recent monograph Dr. Kinclberg has identified his L. neglectum with 
the Spergularia salina of Presl’s Flora Cechica. As this is the oldest 
name, our commonest seaside form will have to be thus called, whilst 
