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white flowers .... referred to as S. dubia Herbich in C. E. 
Salmon’s paper on that species in Journ. Bot., xliii, 128, 1905. 
Vide last year’s Report, p. 61. — H. W. Pugsley. 
The Stony Middleton plant : 1 would call this Silene 
nutans L. I have it from near Folkestone very similar to 
this and 164 inches high ; also from .... and have gathered it 
on silicious rocks by the sea, Kincardineshire. All have a 
very short carpophore, quite different from the tall plant of 
the Dover cliffs, which Smith named S. paradoxa, as S. 
paradoxa L. (Sp. PI. 1673), with obcordate-emarginate petals 
and glabrous leaves. Coste says paradoxa grows on rocky 
hillsides of mountains in the S.E. of France. Of B. nutans 
he says it grows on dry meadows, hillsides and siliceous rocks 
in almost the whole of France. Gaston Bonnier ( Flore, Complete 
de France, etc.) says three varieties and four sub- varieties 
have been described, but gives only var. spatliuli folia Burnat, 
with spathulate leaves rounded at the ends. Various geolo- 
gical formations and degrees of moisture could easily account 
for slight modifications in our plants. — J. Fraser. 
Silene italica Pers. [Ref. C 5]. Galley Hill, Greenhithe, 
W. Kent, June 4, 1931. The winter leaves of this species are 
definitely spatulate ; much broader than the leaves which 
appear in the spring. The calyx-tube varies from light colour 
to quite deep purple in the same colony. — J. E. Lousley. 
Correctly named. — J. Fraser. 
Lychnis alba Mill. (fl. roseis) (or xdioica L. ?) [947], 
Benslow, Hitchin, Herts, June 15, 1931. — J. E. Little. L. 
dioica L. does not occur wild within a radius of 4 miles from 
Hitchin, and it seemed, in the absence of evidence of crossing, 
that these plants represented the rosy-flowered form of L. 
alba mentioned by Babington. But I have this year found that 
L. dioica was introduced into a garden at Benslow, Hitchin, 
presumably by the late A. Ransom, and I now feel uncertain 
to what these plants should be referred. — J. E. Little. I 
would name this alba xdioica without hesitation. The stems 
are much less hairy and glandular and the hairs shorter than 
in L. alba. The leaves are too broad for alba and much less 
hairy on both surfaces. 1 have a sheet from near Staines, 
with red patch, but others in the colony varied greatly in the 
amount of colour. — J. Fraser. I think this must be albaX 
dioica. It has the acute, broad-based calyx-segments of 
