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but the narrow scarious margins of the upper bracts are difficult 
(or even impossible in some cases) to make out. — W. H. Pearsall. 
After the drought of March and April, 1921, on April 30th this 
plant is so small and dried up as to be hardly visible. — H.S.T. 
C. vulgatum L. var. holosteoides Wahlenb. ( C . holosteoides 
Fries.) Damp rock below Leigh Woods, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, 
May 29, 1920. A line of hairs on stem changes its position at 
each node.— H. S. Thompson. Firs, too small for the var., 
under type preferable. — W. H. Pearsall. I have not seen Fries’ 
description of this little-known plant ; but although the flowers 
may be rather small, these specimens have the peculiar line of 
hairs on the stem, and the ciliate bracts mentioned by Druce in 
“Camb. Brit. Flora,” and by Babington and Grenier and Godron. 
Also the “ few scattered long hairs ” on the leaves mentioned by 
White in his “Flora of Bristol.” They agree with specimens (in 
my herbarium) so named and collected by J. Storey on the banks 
of the Tyne near Newcastle, 1848. — H.S.T. 
Stellaria neglecta Weihe var. umbrosa (Opiz.). Hedge-bank of 
road between Whitchurch and Woollard Hill, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, 
June 13, 1920. Calyx and pedicels glabrous. It grew three or 
four feet high. — H. S. Thompson. Yes; the rarer plant with 
glabrous pedicels and calyx (which is often minutely tubercled, 
as in the example before me), which Marshall came to the con- 
clusion should be called umbrosa. — C. E. Salmon. 
Sagina subulata Presl. Damp places in combes on Quantock, 
above Holford, Somerset, v.c. 5, July 30, 1920. One specimen 
may be x procumbens. — H. S. Thompson. If this specimen is 
indeed the hybrid suggested, it is far nearer subulata than 
procumbens. It has the long pedicels, the glandulosity, the 
pentamerous flowers with longer petals, the longer capsules, etc., 
of the former. The seeds, too, seem perfectly healthy and well 
formed. Rouy (“FI. Fr.” III. 286) mentions a doubtful plant 
“S', micrantha Boreau ap. Em. Martin Cat. pi. Pom oral i tin, ed. i 
(1875), ed. ii, p. 64; ? S. procumbens x subulata” This is de- 
scribed by Pony as having, inter alia , small tetramerous flowers 
and abortive capsules— thus not Mr. Thompson’s plant, which is 
difficult to separate from S. subulata. — C.E.S. 
Hypericum elodes Linn. f. [372.] Skaigb aqueduct, Belstone, 
N. Devon, v.c., Sept. 6, 1920. A state induced by running water, 
in which the long shoots were floating. — W. C. Barton. 
