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coverer, viz : on Afton and Compton Downs, Freshwater, Isle 
of Wight, It differs from all the other British species in 
possessing free anthers, the filaments springing from the 
base of the corolla, instead of from the throat as in all the 
other forms. This species is the E. capitata, Willd. var. 
splicer ocephal a, Towns., as described in the Journal of Botany 
for November, 1879, p. 827; March, 1881, p. 87; and 
October, 1881, p. 302; also in the Journal of the Linnean 
Society, Bot., Yol. XVIII., p. 398. Like the other species 
of this genus there are two extreme forms ; a luxuriant form 
in which secondary axillary stalked heads arise from the 
outer bracts of the primary head which they overtop; and a 
dwarf form in which the axillary heads are absent. The 
multi-capitate form occurs plentifully in the protection of 
taller plants on Afton Down, while the uni-capitate form 
grows with it on Afton Down, but is extremely frequent on 
all the downs surrounding Alum Bay, and particularly on 
the one which extends to the Needles. 
A sixth species of Erythrsea is noted by Nyman as British 
in his recently published “ Conspectus Florse Europsese,” part 
III., p. 502, viz : E. diffusa , Woods. It is of diffuse ascend- 
ing habit, has few flowers, and the divisions of the corolla 
are as long as the tube. The lowermost leaves are elliptic 
subrotund, and approximate. I do not know on what 
authority it is regarded as British. 
There are two other species of Erythrma whose conti- 
nental distribution might almost lead to the hope of their 
being detected in Britain, or at least in the Channel Islands, 
since they occur on the contiguous French coasts. These 
are two very distinct Mediterranean species, viz : E . spicata , 
