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dilated to a broadish base. Spires of beak of carpel 6 — 7. 
Beak and fruit about 38 mm. — J. E. Little. Erodium triviale 
Jord. — C. E. Salmon and E. G. Baker. 
Erodium cicutarium var. triviale Jord. Near Christchurch, 
Hants., Sept., 1926. — W. R. Sherrin and L. B. Hall. 
Erodium cicutarium L’Herit. [767]. Wangford Warren, 
N. Suffolk, July 30, 1928. — J. E. Little. Prostrate, often 
closely appressed to the ground. This may be partly due to 
continued nibbling by rabbits, but is the habit of some 
Erodia (e.g. in the radical leaves of E. Botrys ) to guard against 
desiccation. Stems 3/18 in., very glandular, especially on 
the leaf margins. Leaflets very finely divided, not quite to 
midrib. Leaf-segments inclined to ob-lanceolate, rather 
abruptly pointed. Peduncles bearing up to three flowers. 
Beak short (15 mm.). Spires few (up to four). Stamens with 
barren filaments only gradually and slightly dilated at the 
base. Two forms differing I believe only in colour of the 
flowers are about equally common. Those plants which 
have purple corollas have also purple anthers, and stigmas 
of a somewhat paler purple. Those with white corollas have 
pallid anthers and stigmas. I observed the same colour 
variations upon Cavenham Heath, and near Tuddenham, 
both in the same county. — J. E. Little. This interesting 
plant will, I hope, be gathered again and careful note taken 
whether the petals are unequal or subequal, spotted or not, 
colour of pollen, etc. According to Clavaud’s arrangement, 
there seems little doubt that Mr. Little’s plant would fall 
under his section “ fossum ” — for the carpels lack a furrow 
around the apical pit and the leaf-segments are finely divided, 
practically to the mid-rib. Under “ fossum ”, Clavaud has 
A. arenarium (= pilosum Bor.), with three segregates, 
and B. laxum. I am of the opinion that this Wangford plant 
may come under his b. vestitum, of the former. Although 
the leaf cutting strongly recalls E. glutinosum Dum., these 
plants have not the habit, sub-dentate filament, etc., of that 
species (see Journ. Bot., 1920, 123). — C. E. Salmon. 
Erodium moschatum L’Herit. [762]. Wool alien. Gt. 
Wymondley, Herts., Sept, and Oct., 1928. — J. E. Little. 
No scent of musk detected, although the plants are very 
glandular. The subapical carpellary pits converge at a some- 
what more acute angle than in E. cicutarium and the furrows 
beneath them are accordingly broader. Both the pits and 
