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Polygala oxyptera , Reich. “This was growing plentifully last June 
on the chalk downs between Ringwold and St. Margaret’s Bay, Kent, 
in company with P. vulgaris. It appeared to prefer the ground from 
which turf had been taken a year or so previously.” — J. F. Duthie > 
May, 1875. Also Llansilin, Denbighshire, July 15, 1872. — E. Jones. 
“ I think these specimens are rightly referred to oxyptera , but it is a 
curious elongated form, in habit somewhat resembling the Continental 
P. comosa, but without the elongate bracts of that form.” — John T. 
Boswell. 
Poly gala austriaca, Crantz. “ I have already recorded in ‘ Journ. 
Bot.’ 1874, p. 204, another locality for this plant on the downs above 
Wye, showing an extension in area in a southerly direction.” — J. F- 
Duthie, May, 1875. 
Saponaria officinalis, Linn., var. puberula. “ Sandy bank, High- 
town, Lancashire. The specimen herewith differs from the type, a s 
per ‘E. B.,’ third edition, and Hooker’s ‘ Student’s Flora,’ in having the 
sepals and upper portion of the stem decidedly puberulous. All the 
plants growing on the same sandy bank had the same peculiar feature. 
The typical glabrous form, however, is to be found about one hundred 
yards from this spot.” — R. Brown, 1872. “I can find no allusion to 
this puberulous variety in any of the Continental floras to which I 
have access.” — John T. Boswell. 
Saponaria raccaria, Linn. “ Cornfields near the railway bank N. 
of Hartlepool, and also on the bank. In plenty with Cynosurus 
echinatus , but not lasting over a few seasons probably.” — F. Arnold 
Lees, 1872. 
Silene quinquevulnera,~L. “ Kelso, Roxburghshire. I have found 
stragglers of this in cultivated ground in this neighbourhood for the 
last fifteen years.” — A. Brotherston, 1874. 
Cerastium semidecandrum, L. “ Sandbank, Mothecombe. Sent 
from its great rarity near Plymouth.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
Cerastium hofosteoides , Fries. “A perfect aquatic and rather a 
variable plant, sometimes almost running into the typical form, C. 
triviale, but may always be distinguished in its living state by its 
dark, smooth, shining leaves. Abounds on the tidal banks of the 
Tay, from Perth down to the brackish water opposite Newburgh, in 
which it flourishes, but as the water gets salter it gradually ceases. 
Found only below high-water mark, where the typical form is not 
seen. Whether the very marked differences in appearance when in a 
growing state arise from locality only remains to be proved. The 
first flowers are more than double the size of the common form.” 
H. M. Drummond -Hay, 1874. “This curious form of Cerastium 
