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P-fjrus Aria Ehrh. 1 Ref. No. 2222 Top of Nightingale 
Valley, by roadside, Leigh Woods, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 27, 
1916. — H. S. Thompson. An Aria form, near Sorbits incisa 
Eeiclib., and perhaps coming under that. — E.S.M. 
V. Aria Ehrh., [var. rupicola Syme ?]. Ref. No. 2223. Callow 
Rocks, Mendip, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 27, 1916. — H. S. 
Thompson. No : rvpicola has narrow cuneate-based leaves. This 
is our usual English form of Aria. — E.S.M. I should say not 
rupicola, which has fewer lateral veins to leaves, which are much 
more narrowed below, etc. — C.E.S. 
Saxifraga [gnenlandica L., forma nugans]. Cwm Idwal, Car- 
narvonshire, v.c. 19, July 1916. — J. E. Griffith. Quite unlike 
both the Brandon plant and the Cwm Idwal S. rosacea or decipiens 
(S. palmata Smith !). 1 believe it to be a small state of S. platy- 
petala Smith, which Mr. J. G. Baker has referred to S. sponhemica. 
— E.S.M. 
S. [gnenlandica L., = decipiens Ehrh., forma vulgaris J. Root 
from Brandon Mountain, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Cult. Bangor, 
July 1916. — J. E. Griffith. This is typical S. Sternbergii Wil’d., 
and' very like my wild specimens from near the summit of Bran- 
don Mountain, which, when cultivated and luxuriant, just match 
Sternberg’s figure of his original garden -grown plant. The foliage 
is bright green, and more or less glabrate, whereas S. rosacea, 
Moench (S. decipiens Ehrhart, Exsiccata, No. 5, in Herb. Smith ! — 
Ehrhart never described the species) is densely grey-pubescent. 
S. Sternoergii flowers considerably later, and the tufts are much 
more compact. S. gmnlandica.L., of which there is no specimen 
n the Linnean Herbarium, and about which Linne seems to have 
Known very little, was described by him as follows in the “ Species 
Pla.Aarum,” ed. I. p. 404: “Saxifraga foliis caulinis aimato- 
multifidis sparsis : laciniis acutis, caule erecto.” It was based on 
the “Saxifraga tridactylites groenlandica, caudieulis [misquoted 
by Linne as ‘ caulibus ’] valde foliosis ” of Dillenius, “ Hortus 
Eltharaensis,” t. ccltii, f. 329 (pp. 337 — 8). This represents a 
plant quite unlike S. rosacea ( decipiens ), and much nearer to the 
true S. caespitosa L. Dillenius gives a full description and 
account. 1 have seen a specimen in the Sherardian Herbarium 
at Oxford, vhich is mentioned by him as containing it. This is 
in oo' condition, but likewise differs greatly from S. rosacea. On 
se it evidence, which is too long to give in detail he e, I do 
not believe that some Scandinavian and British bot- lists are 
right in replacing the name S. rosacea ( decipier. ’ 8. green- 
landin', L. -‘-E.S.M 
