598 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
basses, a racine grele, tenue.’ Whether these characters are sufficient 
to warrant another species heing’inscrihed in a future edition of the 
London Catalogue is open to a difference of opinion. At present we 
must admit that the treatment of the pansy section of the genus Viola 
is not on the same lines as that of the other section, where even colour 
forms are admitted.” — G. Claridge Druce. 
Dianthus gallicus, DC. Sands of St. Owen’s Bay, Jerse}^, 26th 
July 1899. This is the plant which Mr. J. Piquet, who discovered it 
in 1897, named D. ccesius, Sm., but which Mr. F. N. Williams in the 
‘Journ. Bot.’ 1898, p. 493, assigned to D. gallicus, DC., a West 
European species found on the sands of the coast. There is a large 
patch of it, some 20 yards square with a few “ out-liers,” growing in 
the sand in St. Owen’s Bay in one of the least frequented parts of 
Jersey. There is no house within a considerable distance. If not 
native, it has undoubtedly been established there for some consider- 
able time. That it has not been detected before is easily accounted 
for by the fact that it grows in sands which are covered with sheets of 
Armeria plantagmea, which flowers at the same time, and is, as I can 
testify from experience, of exactly the same tint. I am sending to the 
Club specimens of Scabiosa maritima^ L., and Centaiwea paniculafa^ L., 
both of which have for many years been introduced with foreign seeds. 
Much lucerne is, or used to be, sown in the sandy fields on the coast. 
Centaurea aspera, L., of which I send specimens, has I think a better 
claim to be regarded as a native. — L. V. Lester. 
Silene anglica, Linn., var. rosea, Melvill. Roadside near I^es 
Landes, Jersey, 26th May 1898. Petals blush-rose tinted, evenly 
suffused, no spots. Is not this variety an ultra-sub-anglica hybrid 
with quinquevuhiera} I have only met with it in the Channel Islands. 
— J. W. ^VHITE. 
Arenaria serpyllifolia, Linn., var. leptodados (Cuss.). Bare, near 
Morecambe. W. Lancs., 26th July 1899. — J. A. WTeldon. “Right.” 
— E. F. Linton. “ My specimens were mixed, part being Sagina 
ciliata, Fries., and part A. leptodados, Cuss. M. Crepin and Mr. F. 
N. Williams both give specific rank to the latter plant.” — G. Claridge 
Druce. 
A. serpyllifolia, Linn., var. Lloydii (Jord.). Sea shore. Bare, near 
Morecambe, AV. Lancs., 26th July 1899. These two grow together 
without any appearance of running into each other. — J. A. Wheldon. 
“This is quite right; the form of A. leptodados (from Bare) is just 
parallel to it, and is probably the x scabra, Rouy and Foucaud (but 
I have seen no specimens).”— E. S. Marshall. 
Sagina maritima, Don, var. debilis (Jord.). Afton Down, Fresh- 
water Bay, Isle of Wight, 7th July 1899. — C. E. Palmer. “ Doubtful ; 
the sepals are rather shorter than the capsules, and the plant is not 
plainly prostrate.” — W. R. L. 
