MR. A. BENNETT ON STELLERIA DILLENIANA. 
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It is hoped that with the help of these notes the future 
identification of these valuable and historical specimens will 
be rendered less difficult. I wish to thank Mr. Frank Leney 
and the Committee of the Castle Museum, Norwich, for very 
kindly allowing me to examine the collection, and Dr. F. A. 
Bather for advice in connexion with the work. 
III. 
STELLERIA DILLENIANA IN NORFOLK. 
By Arthur Bennett, A.L.S. 
Read jist October , ign. 
S. Dilleniana Moench, “En. PI. Hass,” 1777 t. 6, p. 214. 
S. glauca With., var. Virens Meyer, “ Cl). Harm,” 1836, p. 198. 
S. palustris Retz., var. Viridis Fries, Mant iii. , 1842, p. 191. 
In the Journal of Botany for September, 1910, Dr. F. N. 
Williams records the finding of the above plants “ in a 
marshy meadow on the Surrey side of the Thames near 
Walton, but really in Middlesex.” It was here plentiful, 
flowering in August to October, that is, after A. palustris had 
done flowering for the most part. 
The plant differs from palustris in being green, not 
glaucous, the flowers are only one-two flowered, the leaves, 
bracts and calyx are quite glabrous, and it flowers much later, 
ripening its fruit in October. 
The date of Dilleniana being earlier than palustris (1795), 
Dr. Williams contends it ought to bear that name, and 
palustris becomes a synonym. 
To many the plant will only be a variety palustris ( Stellaria 
palustris Retz , var. Dilleniana Blytt in Norges’ Flora (1876), 
p. 1049). But from the wide difference in flower, etc., it may 
perhaps be called a sub-species. 
