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Marshall’s later remark that the habit of his var. decipiens 
approaches S. media, taken in conjunction with the seed 
character, suggests that he had then in view a luxuriant form 
of S. media with elongate pedicels, such as may frequently 
be seen in summer and autumn, and which may closely 
simulate S. neglecta. Salmon (l.c.) says that he cannot find 
Marshall’s third form, and that all of his neglecta-like examples 
with this fruit character seem to be “ just luxuriant media, 
which can possess sometimes remarkably long peduncles.” 
This coincides with my experience. Marshall does not seem 
to have appreciated what appears to be an important criterion 
with this group — the plant’s life-cycle. Babington, Townsend 
and others have treated S. neglecta (sensu lato) as a perennial, 
but f believe it to be an ephemeral annual, as shown by Moss 
in “ Cambridge British Flora,” producing yearly one genera- 
tion only and flowering from spring till early summer. S. 
media on the other hand is an annual that flowers in any 
month, constantly reproducing itself and often passing through 
several generations in a single year. Marshall’s varietal name 
decipiens cannot be transferred from typical S. neglecta, to 
which it was originally intended to apply, and I doubt whether 
the luxuriant form of S. 'media that sometimes resembles it is 
really more than a state due to environment. — H. W. Pugsley. 
Stellaria neglecta, var. Elizabethan F. Schultz. [2621], 
(1) Near Sidcot, N. Somerset, May 16, 1931. Growing on an 
old stone wall in shade of trees. — H. S. Thompson. (2) [Ref. 
2622], Between Ursleigh Hill and Whitchurch, N. Somerset, 
May 22, 1931. Abundant on roadside banks. — H. S. T. 
Correct (2622). — J. Fraser. 
Arenaria serpyllifolia var. scabra Fenzl. [2640]. Wall in 
Cheddar village, N. Somerset, Sept. 19, 1931. Very variable, 
some specimens being short and strict. — H. S. Thompson. 
Yes, a rather slender and small- capsuled form. — E. Drabble. 
A. serpyllifolia var. macrocarpa Lloyd ? [2637]. Berrow 
sands, N. Somerset, July 16, 1931. In abundance along a 
great length of the strand zone. Some with glandular hairs 
may be var. sphaerocarpa Ten. ; but they closely resemble 
plants of var. viscid, ula Roth from the same coast, 1917, and 
passed as such by Marshall and by Salmon. — H. S. Thompson. 
These plants are exceptionally fine specimens of A. serpyllifolia 
var. viscidula Roth, with generally dense glandulosity on 
