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able and distinct variety, occurring on arable land, which is 
characterised by its large and deep blue flowers, and perhaps 
differentiated in other ways from ordinary tricolor. Whether it is 
found elsewhere, as, in Scandinavia, and whether it has received 
a name, I have not learnt. A series of this Viola was sent to the 
Club in 1886, but in the report nothing more appears than that it 
was “passed” by the referee. I therefore send up a further supply 
of this Viola.^ in the hope that it will receive less scanty attention this 
second time of asking. If Polygala vulgaris^ when occurring in a 
specially developed form, receives the name of Polygala grandiflora., 
why should not a specially developed form of V. tricolor be similarly 
recognised ? — Wm. R. Linton. 
Viola Curtisii, Forst. vars. On the sandhills at Southshore, 
Blackpool, W. Lancashire, 2nd June, 1887. Sent to show the great 
extremes in habit and colouring. In the early summer this plant 
completely covers the sandhills, and all colours, cream, yellow, pale 
lavender, light and dark blue, and purple, grow intermixed. In most 
other stations where I have seen this plant it affects flat, damp, 
sandy areas, and usually presents a uniformity of habit and colour. 
At Southshore, St. Anne’s, and Lytham, all on the West Lancashire 
coast, it is quite as frequent on the dry sides of the sandhills as in 
their hollows. — Charles Bailey. I have failed to get distinctive 
names, or even definite opinions, on these violas from the referees to 
whom they were sent. — G.,N. 
V. Forster. Banna sandhills, Co. Kerry, August, 1887.— 
R. W. Scully. 
Dianthus plumarius^ L. Conway town walls, June, 1887. — J. 
Fraser; and July, 1887. — J. E. Griffith. 
Cerastium arctiat^n., Lange, var. Edi 7 ionstonii^ Beeby. vSerpentine 
Hills, Unst, 30th August, 1887. — W. H. Beeby. Mr. Beeby is the 
authority for the varietal name of this species, and not Watson, as 
given in the Lond. Cat. under C. alpinum. 
C. arvense, L., glabrescent form. Euston, Suffolk, 24th May, 
1887. — E. F. Linton. 
Stellar ia umbrosa., Opiz. Two forms ; one glabrous, and the other 
with calyces and pedicels hairy. Tortworth, West Gloucestershire. 
This may be a new record for Vice-Co. 34. I have collected a series 
of specimens to illustrate a point which has already been mentioned 
here and there, namely, that this plant is commonly glabrous, but that 
there is also a frequent form of it having the pedicels and calyces 
hairy. The species is not rare either in West Gloucester or North 
Somerset, and one can readily find both its varieties or states inter- 
mingled on the same hedgebank. I have carefully examined and 
compared these plants, not forgetting the ripe seeds, and am satisfied 
that beyond the character named tl\ere is no structural difference 
whatever between them. — Jas. Walter White. 
S. palustris., Ehrh. Shapwick Moor, North Somerset (6), July, 
1886. — J. W. White. New County record. 
Arenaria tenuifolia., L. Plentiful on the walls of Osney Cemetery, 
Oxford, July, 1886. I send it because it illustrates a curious persistence 
