Seseli Libanotis Koch. Seaford Head, E. Sussex, Aug. 30, 
1931. [C 11]. A large colony showing great variation 
according to exposure to the sea winds. — J. E. Lousley. Yes, 
but my specimen is without fruit. — E. Drabble. 
Galium varum L. var. maritimum DC. Drigg sandhills, 
Cumberland, July 31, 1931. This is the best marked mariti- 
mum I have seen. It ran extensively in the shifting sand in 
order to keep its head above ground, many of the runners 
being stoloniferous. The sand was so loose that I never 
succeeded in getting to the bottom of the roots. — A. H. 
Wolley-Dod. Excellent material of what is apparently the 
true plant. Dune forms of the type often serve to pass as 
the variety. — E. C. Wallace. Remarkably dwarf, flowering 
and fruiting freely. An ecad, developed by environment. 
- — J. Fraser. Very characteristic specimens of var. maritimum, 
collected to show the underground stems. An ecad rather 
than a variety of varum, , I think. — E. Drabble. 
Galium 'erectum Huds. (mostly in fruit). Roadside, Ullcn- 
wood, E. Glos., July 4, 1931. — H. 8. T. with Mr. John Haines. 
I agree with the determination of a specimen from Ullenwood, 
1913, from the late A. 8. Montgomery ; but two of those 
gathered by me on July 4 and one of Montgomery’s (1915) are 
nearer G. Mollugo var. Balceri (8yme) ; and some from that 
place were so regarded in B. E. C. Report of that year. — H. S. 
Thompson. Apparently G. erectum Huds. — H. W. Pugsley. 
Correct. Hooker, in Stud. FI., places this as a sub-sp. of 
G. Mollugo L. Dr. von Hayek, in Hegi lllust. FI. Mitteleuropa 
VI, 213, also places it thus. He has the following : — subvar. 
hirtifolium H. Br., plant in lower part hairy ; var. nemorosum 
(G. nemorosum Wierz.) leaves longer, up to 20mm., and subvar. 
Obornyanum H. Br., a hairy form. — E. G. Baker. The 
lamented Dr. Briquet (the greatest authority in Europe on 
Galium), who was so fond of reducing species to sub-species, 
also reduced G. erectum Huds. to a sub-sp. of G. Mollugo. If 
so inclined, it would be easy to give half a dozen names to 
different forms of Mollugo and erectum all more or less merging 
into one another, and I have depauperate erectum on thin 
stony soil simulating silvestre, and not 6 inches high. See 
Reports, 1919-20, p. 103 ; 1925-26, p. 339 ; (last year there 
was no trace of any Galium in that Mendip pasture) ; Journ. 
Bot. 1919, 286 ; and Tansley in Journ. Ecol. 1917, “ On 
Competition between G. saxatile L. and G. sylvestre Poll, on 
different types of soil.” — H. 8. Thompson. 
