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Pers., where each branch ends in a long red-flowered spike ; 
and E. maritima, Pers., with yellow flowers. 
I have carefully examined mature seeds of all the British 
species, except E. latifolia, Sm. (my specimens of which are 
not in fruit), and I can detect no differences amongst them 
of a specific character. The ripe seeds are of a russet brown 
in all the species except E. pulchella , and in this species 
they are blackish brown. 
“ On a dwarf form of Campanula glomerata , L., from the 
Isle of Wight,” by Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 
When collecting Erythrcea capitata , Willd., var. sphceroce- 
phala, Towns., in the Isle of Wight, referred to in the 
preceding communication, I was greatly struck with a 
diminutive Campanula which grows on the Afton Down at 
Freshwater, and still more plentifully on the downs from 
the Needles towards Freshwater. Its stature about Alum 
Bay is no greater than that of the herbage, which is ex- 
tremely short, averaging only an inch; in the more 
sheltered ground opposite Freshwater it grows from one to 
three inches high. It is very unlike the ordinary form of 
C. glomerata, L of the limestone districts of the North of 
England, which is of robust habit, frequently two feet in 
height, with a long spike of clustered flowers, or a single 
terminal cluster. The dwarf form of this species has 
been known for nearly a hundred years, as Withering in 
his “Arrangement of British Plants,” 5th Ed., Yol. II., p. 
310, thus refers to specimens from the identical locality:— 
“ I have gathered it when growing on a high and very 
dry soil, as on the summit of Aston [ ? Afton] Down in the 
