(vide Report for 1930-31, p. 61, and for 1931-32, p. 113). 
The account of S. nutans L. in E. B. 465 (1798) was taken from 
the plant growing at Nottingham, the “ Nottingham Catchfly,” 
and this led to this form being erroneously regarded by 
British botanists as the typical species. Smith (FI. Brit. ii. 
467 (1800)) introduced in addition S. paradoxa L. into the 
British Flora, as the “ Dover Catchfly,” on the strength of a 
record by Ray, and apparently without any first-hand 
knowledge of the plant ; and no evidence can be traced of the 
species having ever existed at Dover. The only specimen 
from Dover in Smith’s herbarium is unnamed, but it is 
annotated in Smith’s hand “ True Dover Campion, 1822.” 
The specimen is S. nutans var. Smithiana Moss. In 1825 
Peete found a different plant at Dover, which he described 
and figured as S. patens in E. B. S. 2748 (1832). This plant 
was subsequently identified with S. italica Pers., and the 
original figure was used by Syme to illustrate that species in 
E. B., ed. 3, 208. No specimen of S. italica, which was confused 
with typical S. nutans (S. dubia C. E. Salmon) in the “ Flora 
of Kent,” has been seen from Dover, other than Peete’s, 
although the species still grows in North Kent. I think that 
one form only grows on the Dover Cliffs, that no real difference 
exists between the Dover and the Nottingham Catchfly, and 
that Moss was right in merging them both in one variety 
Smithiana of S. nutans L. — H. W. Pugsley. 
In stature, size, shape and hairiness of the leaves, this is so 
close to the Stony Middleton (Derbyshire) plant of last year’s 
distribution that I would say they are the same thing, and the 
varietal name by Moss could be given to both. The hairs of the 
species are jointed, and the special feature of the Stony 
Middleton and the Nottingham Castle rock plants is that the 
basal joint of the hairs is bulbous and so large and conspicuous 
as to give the leaves a very scabrous appearance. The leaves 
drop more or less of the upper part of the hairs, leaving only the 
bulbous base ; but the amount of this calvation varies from 
leaf to leaf, even in the same pair, and I would expect that 
this would vary more or less in different seasons, according 
to rainfall. — J. Fraser. 
Moenchia erecta Gaert. Sandy meadows around Camber 
Castle, Rye, Kent.— Coll. A. 0. Hume, May 16, 1908, Comm. 
S. Loud. Bot. Inst. 
