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Arenaria serpyllifolia , L. var. glutinosa, Koch. Shoebury Com- 
mon, S. Essex, 4th June, 1893. I send this rather to elicit informa- 
tion. It closely resembles plants I sent last year from near The 
Needles, I. of. Wight, but is scarcely more glandular than those from 
Old Castle (not Old Garth) Mill. There was some difference of 
opinion among the critics as to the varietal name of the plant. 
Koch in ‘Syn. FI. Germ, et Helv.’ p. toi says of var .glutinosa “ minor, 
erecta vel adscendens, superne pilis glanduliferis tecta” which might 
include almost any glandular form. — A H. Wolley Dod. “ Dr. 
Boswell referred the Isle of Wight plant from St. Helen’s Spit to the 
b. glutinosa of Koch. This differs in some respects from Capt. 
Wolley Dod’s plant, which nevertheless I think is rightly named.” — 
F. Townsend. 
Sagina apetala , L. var. prostrata , Bab. On gravel walks, “ The 
Yews,” Odiham, N. Hants., 26th June, 1893. In more shady places 
it assumes the upright form. — C. E. Palmer. “A not uncommon 
form and rightly referred to Babington’s v. prostrata .” — F. Townsend. 
Malva rotundifolia , L. (autumnal state). Roadside waste, Milford, 
Surrey, 13th June, 1893. A very marked and distinct-looking plant 
when growing. Mostly with an erect central stem about 2 ft. high, the 
lateral stems being decumbent. Very floriferous. — E. S. Marshall. 
M borealis , Wallm. Near Plum Lane, Plumstead, W. Kent, 9th 
July, 1893. A very different looking plant from those I sent last year, 
and evidently annual. Last year’s was, I believe, a biennial form. I 
think it is best distinguished from M. pannflora, of which I also send 
a few sheets, by the following characters, deri\ed from an examination 
with Mr. E. G. Baker, of the specimens in the British Museum 
Herbarium : — Its carpels are rather rounded on the back, but their 
edges are acute, and though usually conspicuously reticulate-rugose, 
they are less so than in parviflora , and sometimes inconspicuously 
so ; its pedicels are much longer, and sepals scarcely, if at all, 
accrescent after flowering. Its leaves are very like those of rotundi- 
fo/ia, only obscurely lobed. M. parviflora has the edges of its 
reticulate-rugose carpels very prominent, sometimes so much so that 
the back is almost concave ; its pedicels are very short, rarely longer 
than the calyx ; its sepals are considerably accrescent, and lobes of 
leaves extend to from a quarter to a third the depth of the lamina. 
M. verticil lata, L, much resembles M. parviflora, but the backs of the 
carpels are convex, their edges being scarcely acute; the lamina of 
the leaves are longer than broad, not subrotund as in the other two 
species. — A. H. W'olley Dod. 
M. parviflora , L. Waste ground near Faversham Station, E. 
Kent, 19th August, 1893 — A. IL. Wolley Dod. 
M. nicocensis, All. Cultivated field in light sandy soil, Porchester, 
S. Hants, 1st September, 1893. No doubt a casual, but in some 
quantity over a piece of land which the tenant assured my brother and 
myself had been sown three times during the season, when I asked 
him what crop had been intended. To us the result was interesting : 
weeds abounded, including Malva parviflora L., an unrecognised 
Melilotus, Chenopodium ficifolium (new to*S. Plants, but suspiciously 
