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Colonel passed No. 15 he saw one form, and when he condemned 
it saw the other. — W. Barclay. Of that group undoubtedly, and 
probably Keller’s variety. — A.H.W.-D. 
Aethusa Cynapium L., var. agrestis Wallr. (Ref. No. 350). 
Stubble field, Kelsham Farm, near Petworth, W. Sussex, v.c. 13, 
Sept. 17, 1918. Mr. Druce confirms the name. Has this been 
tested by cultivation 1 It seems at least possible that it is a late 
autumn form due to conditions. Perhaps some member would 
grow it from seed. — W. C. Barton. 
Galium erectum Huds. (1) (Ref. No. 2643). Old pasture, 
mown this year in July, but browsed by sheep for many years, 
'Sidcot, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 7 and 15, 1919. Variable in 
form, colour and stature. (See “Journ. Bot.” 1919, p. 286). 
( 2 ) (Ref. No. 2644). In long grass at side of drive to Newcomb, 
-Sidcot, id. June 8, 1919. This drive twelve years ago was part of 
a pasture grazed by cows. New localities for this plant, rare in 
'Somerset and apparently absent from Devon and Cornwall. 
( 3 ) (Ref. No. 2642). Mowing grass, probably laid down within 
ten years, near Frenchay, W. Clos., v.c. 34, June 2, 1919 (the 
locality recorded in White’s “ Notes Supplemental to the Flora 
of Bristol,” 1918). Several large clumps of a more robust nature 
than most of the Sidcot ones ; but there were a few clumps in 
the Sidcot pasture, Ref. No. 2645, almost as robust, yellowish 
"white in bud a fortnight later, but with narrow strap-shaped 
Heaves 15 — 20 mill, long and very pointed, like those of var. 
aristatum. Syme says (“Eng. Bot.” Ed. 3, Vol. IV., 1865, p. 218) 
G. Bakeri is “one of three or four intermediate forms which connect 
G. erectum with G. datum , of which G. aristatum (Smith) is an- 
other.” Some of the Sidcot specimens approach G. datum , var. 
Bakeri Syme, in having “Leaves 6 — 8 in a whorl, strap-shaped 
or linear strap-shaped. Branches of panicle few-flowerecl.” N. E. 
Brown in “Suppl. to Eng. Bot.”, Eel. 3, says G. erectum , var. 
liffusum Baker in “B.E.C. Report” for 1863, p. 7 (1864), is G. 
Bakeri Syme. G. diffusum Don in Hooker was figured in “Eng. 
Bot, Suppl.” 2783. See also Baker in “Journ. Bot.”, 1863, p. 290, 
On a Yorkshire Galium allied to G. erectum ,’ in which he shows 
‘ how closely the extremes of the series are linked together by 
ntermediate stages of gradation.” Much more might be written 
m the confusion of nomenclature and the published figures of 
,his difficult group, but this is not the occasion, and I do not 
ittempt even to outline the confusion ; but for the present leave 
t with the observation that of the Sidcot gathering the number 
>f leaflets varied from 5 — 8 in a whorl, though usually 6 or 7, 
