the botanical exchange club of the BRITISH ISLES, 
Viola odorata, L. var sepincola (Jord.) South Harting, Sussex. — 
23rd March and 6th October, 1892. — M. L. Hodgson. 
V Riviniana, Reichb. x sylvestris, Reichb., vide ‘Report,’ 1891, 
ex Hollington, S. Derbyshire, June, 1892. — W. R. Linton. 
V. Curtisiiy var. Sandhills, Southport. — J. A. Wheldon. “ Is 
V sabulosaP — J. G. Baker. This seems to me the original V. Curlisii, 
i.e., Curtisii a. Forsterii L.C., ed. vii., the parti-coloured plant being 
called there var. Mackaii. It agrees very well with cultivated specimens 
of the Braunton Burrows plant from Mr. Watson’s garden, and wild 
specimens from the same locality.” — Arth, Bennett. 
Polygala serpyllacea, Weihe. Large leaved form. Glen A’an, Banff, 
August, 1891. — G. C. Druce. 
P. calcarea, F. Schultz. Streatley, Berks, May, 1892. Mr. N. E. 
Brown in ‘E. B, Suppl.,’ p. 35, says the name P. amarella, Crantz, 
should be substituted for this, “ as it is doubtless the same plant.” As 
I have pointed out in the ‘Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist.’ we want 
further evidence than this statement — positive though it is — before we 
substitute Crantz’s name P. amarella^ which was given, as I contend, 
to a different plant. In the first place P, calcarea is not included by 
Beck or Nyman as an Austrian plant (but Giinther Beck includes 
it in his Flora of Siidbosnien) Beck says P. amarella^ Crantz, is 
P. amara^ L., ‘Sp. PI.,’ ed. ii., 987, and according to Koch and 
Neilreich, but not corresponding to the cited habitat. In the Linnsean 
herbarium jP. amara, L., ‘Syst.,’ ed. x., 1759, is represented by P. 
calcarea, but Linnaeus in the ‘ Sp. PL,’ ed. ii., cites Jacquin ‘En. Vind.,’ 
and the plant of Jacquin figured afterwards in the ‘FI. Aust.,’ 1778, 
from the classic locality of P. amara is certainly not P. calcarea. 
Finally Nyman in ‘Supp. to Consp. FI. Eur.,’ p. 358, places P. 
amarella under P. austriaca, Crantz. = P. uliginosa, Reichb. So far 
as I can see P. calcarea, F. Schultz, is still the name to be given to our 
chalk Polygala, and if so the synonymy in ‘ E.B. Suppl.’ will have to 
be considerably altered. — G, C. Druce. 
Dianthus ccBsius, Sm. Cheddar Rock, Somerset, N., June, 1884. In 
the recent monograph on the Dianthus, Mr. Williams retains this 
name notwithstanding that he has pointed out D. gratia^iopolitanus, 
Vill. grantianopolitanus m. ‘E.B. Suppl.’) has the priority. — 
G. C. Druce. 
Silene Cucubalus, Wibel, var. A. oleracea, Bor, ‘FI. du Centre de la 
France,’ p. 95. It seems a characteristic form, but is connected with 
type by every intermediate. Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, i6th June, 1892. 
— A. H. Wolley-Dod. “ Is var. angustifolius," Ten. — W. R. Linton. 
“ I suppose differs by the narrower leaves and clustered flowers at the 
apex of the stem. Is it the S. inflata var. oleracea, Ficinus, ‘ FI. d. 
Geg. um Dresden,’ ed. ii. p. 313 (1821), mentioned by Mr. Brown in 
‘ E. B. Suppl.,’ p. 38.? I have not seen specimens of either that or 
Boreau’s plant,” — Arth. Bennett. Boreau describes his A oleracea as 
having oblong or lanceolate leaves, and a dichotomous panicle of 
flowers with oval calyx ; in his A. vesicaria the leaves are oval 
lanceolate, the flowers in a terminal panicle of 2 to 10 flowers, with 
