146 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
the name has since been refused it ; I believe by the authorities of 
the Exchange Club. I trust that a larger series may settle the 
question. — A ugustin Ley< “ Does indeed approach very nearly to 
the var. grandi flora .” — C. C. Babington. 
Cerastium triviale , Link, var. alpestre , Snowdon, Carnarvon, 14th 
August, 1886. I send forms referrible to this variety, or approaching 
it, from Carnarvonshire. It is abundant on the Carnarvonshire 
cliffs ; and a specimen from Clogwyn-y-garnedd, Snowdon, was 
named alpestre for me some years ago by Prof. Babington. — Augustin 
Ley. Passed without comment, by Mr. J. G. Baker. 
C. arcticum , Lange, var. Edmond stonii , Beeby (Scot. Naturalist, 
1887), Serpentine hills, Unst, Shetland, 26th July, 1886. C. 
alpinum var. Edmondstoni Hanb. in L. Cat. Ed. 8 {non Watson.) The 
form sent probably represents the “ acutifolium ” of Edmondston’s 
“ Flora of Shetland/'* Its straggling habit is due to its growing among 
rather loose stones, while the more typical plant grows on a compact 
gravel. — W. H. Beeby. “ Is this arcticu??i ? I have much doubt.” — 
C. C. Babington. 
Arenaria norvegica , Gunner. Serpentine hills, Unst, Shetland, 
26th July, 1886.— W. H. Beeby. 
Hypericum elatum , Ait. Sebergham, Cumberland, Sept., 1886. 
Found at Sebergham just within a low fence in a small garden. The 
occupant stated that the plant formerly grew in some abundance by 
the roadside a few hundred yards higher up. A few years ago some 
“ gentlemen” from Carlisle brought a cart and dug it up, and carried 
it away. The next day she found on the spot two bits of root which 
have now grown into two fine bushes. — Eliz. Lomax. 
H. pulchrum , L., var. procumbens , Rostrup. Serpentine hills, 
Unst, Shetland, 26th July, 1886. The name is confirmed by Dr. 
Lange. — W. H. Beeby. 
Lavatera sylvestris , Brot. St. Sampson’s, Guernsey, 21st July, 1886. 
I have sent the plant, as it is supposed not to have been reported from 
Guernsey before. It was growing near the old salt-pans at St. Samp- 
son’s. We saw only a few plants, which were all nearly out of flower, 
and in very bad condition, owing to an attack of Puccinia . — W. W. 
Reeves. 
Lupinus pei'ennis , Linn. Thoroughly naturalised on the heath at 
Feavel, Sandwick, Orkney, 4th August, 1886. The late Dr. William 
Traill first discovered this plant in Orkney at the above station in 
September, 1883, and in the “Transactions and Proceedings of the 
Botanical Society,” vol. xvi., part 1, page 166, there is a communica- 
tion by him “ On the Common Lupin as a Fodder Plant in Orkney.” 
Dr. Traill wrote that “ about three acres of ground were thickly 
covered with it, but scattered plants extended to a much greater 
distance.” A neighbouring farmer informed me that it had originally 
escaped from a cottage garden more than twenty years ago, and that 
it had spread rapidly within the past few years. The kind of ground 
on which it grows is known in Orkney by the name of “ breck,” i.e. f 
heathy ground from which the thin coating of turf has been removed 
for fuel at short intervals, exposing the subsoil, and giving the country 
a broken and variegated appearance from the occurrence of alternate 
