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Cerastium tetrandrum Curt. 102, S. Hebrides; cliffs at Uragaig, 
Isle of Colonsay, 28th May 1949. — Miss C. W. Muirhead, comm. 
Carlisle Museum. “ Undoubtedly C. tetrandrum Curt., but too young 
to show the very characteristic habit. A diagnostic character seldom 
used for this species is that, in fruit, the axis ol the calyx is in line with 
the |)edicel.”— E. Milne-Redhead. 
Malvn. rotundifolin L. (il/. pu-sdla Sm.). 17, Surrey; near Kemps’ 
Farm, Buckland, 11th September 1949. — J. E. Louslew. “ Correctly 
named. Salmon gave the name M. pwsilla Sm., forma Jasiocarpa C. E. 
Salmon, in Bep. Woisou Exch. CL, 2 , 436 (1915), to plants such 
as these with hairy fruits, but I find that the great majority of British 
and European specimens, at any rate at Kew, have the carpels more or 
less pubescent on the back ; only on one or two sheets did the carpels 
seem to he quite glabrous. Hegi, 6, 488, states that the carpels 
may be finely hairy or glabrous. Salmon’s form was raised to varietal 
rank by Druce in the second edition of the British Plant List. Mr S. 
Savage, Assistant Secretary of the Linnean Society of London, informs 
me that the carpels of the type specimen (sheet 870.18) of Malva rotun- 
di folia L., in the Linnean Herbarium are pubescent (and, so far as can 
be seen, transversely wrinkled). This being so, it does not seem worth 
while to retain vSalmon’s forma Jasiocarpa unless a name is also given to 
the much rai-er form Avith glabrous carpels.” — N. Y. Sandwith. 
Vida angustifolia L. var. Bohartii Koch. 8, South Wilts. ; sandy 
fallow, Sandy Lane, 8th June 1949. — J. D. Grose. Flowers bright red. 
Plants slender, pro.strate ; growing in a sandy fallow. — J. D. Grose 
(Ref. No. 5823). 
Vida angustifolia L. var. segetalis Koch ?. 8, South Wilts.; railway 
bank near Standerwick, 9th June 1948. — J. D. Grose. Flowers bright 
red; mature pods black. In other respects it approaches V. sativa. 
Plants rather robust, straggling, growing in long grass and brambles on 
neutral soil. Some plants were OA^er two feet long. — J. D. Grose (Ref. 
No. 5526). 
Vida angustifolia L. near var. segetalis Koch. S, South Wilts. ; Lid- 
dington, 19th INIay 1948. — J. D. Grose. Dull purple flowers of V. sativa 
but the mature pods are black. Plants robust, erect, growing in un- 
grazed chalk grassland but not, I think, a relict of cultivation. T be- 
lieve this common form is often taken for V. sativa-. — J. D. Grose (Ref. 
No. 5493). 
Vida angustifolia. L. near var. segetalis Koch. 8, South Wilts.; 
heath near Sandy Lane, 8th June 1949. — J. D. Grose. Flowers bright 
red. Plants slender, straggling in bushes on acid soil. — J. D. Grose 
(Ref. No. 5824). 
