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must be referred to 6’. Reuieri, Boiss, from Spain.” — J. Lange. This 
is figured in Willkomm’s ‘leones et descriptiones Plantarum Nov. 
crit. et ran’ Europse Austro-occidentalis praecipue Hispanias, tab. 
73. And is described on p. 114 l.c. as ‘Annua, pygmaea, multicaulis 
radice tenui perpendiculari. Caules 1-2 pollicares, erecto-patuli, fere 
a basi dichotome ramosi, internodiis brevibus. Folia superiora et 
media internodiis breviora vix lineam longa, infima 2-3."' longa 
internodiis longiora, omnia lineari-lanceolata acuminata aristata, basi 
ciliata. Flores tetrameri minimi solitarii subeymosi breviter pedun- 
culati, pedunculis et floriferis et fructiferis erectis calyce longioribus 
setaceis. Sepala Y longa ovato oblonga glabra mutica apice subincurva 
uninervia margine anguste membranacea, in flore fructifero 
capsulae adpresse eaque breviora. Petala nulla. Stamina 4 sepalis 
breviora, antheris didymis. Capsula quadrivalvis, valvis apice 
emarginato-truncatis. Semina ignota. Tota plantula Itete virens et 
parce glandulosa-puberula. = S. Reuteri Boissier in ‘Diagn. PI. Orient.’ 
sen ii n.l. p. 82. Species e sectione Saginella Fenzl, proxima S. apetalae 
L. et S. patulcE Jord. Prior differt foliis longioribus pedunculis elongatis, 
et sepalis etiam in statu fructifero in crucem expansis. Cf. Reich. Ic. f, 
4,958 (icon bona) S. patula, Jord. Obs. i. p. 23. t. 3. f. a (icon optima) 
praeter habitum procerum laxum capsula non excedente distincta est. 
Hab. in Hispania centrali circa Madritum, Reuter ! ” See also 
Willkomm and Lange’s ‘Prod. Florae Hispanicae,’ vol. iii, 602. 
Nyman ‘ Consp. FI. Europae.’ At first I was inclined to pass this ovei 
as S. ciliata^ Fries, but I could see no mucro on the two sepals, and it 
then recalled a form which I had previously gathered in Northants 
which had all the sepals blunt and adpressed to the calyx. Dr. Lange 
kindly identified it as above. The plant may be known from S. apetala 
by its sepals not spreading when the capsule is ripe in the form of a 
cross, from S. procumbens by its erect peduncles, and from S. ciliata by 
all the sepals being blunt and shorter than the capsule. The distri- 
bution of S. Reutcri^ Boiss., in Europe was up to this record supposed 
to be confined to the district round Madrid, a variety — peduncularis 
being found in “Aragonia australi,” FI. Hisp. l.c. — G. C. Druce. 
Corion medium, N.E.Br. In a marshy meadow at Marcham, 
Berks, August, 1891. — G. C. Druce. This interesting addition to 
the Berkshire Flora was made in the previous year. It occurred in 
that singular tract of the country which is watered by a saline spring 
near to the locality for Scirpus maritimus, and where Apiutn 
graveolens, Carex distans, (Enanthe Lachenalii, and Zannichellia 
pedimculata have also been found. The plant grows among grass 
where it may easily escape notice, but particularly delights in the 
barer spots caused by the trampling of cattle, and is too wide spread 
and plentiful to be a recent introduction. Can it be a survival ? In 
the ‘Supplement to E.B.,’ Mr. N. E. Brown has placed it under the 
above name, but the genus Corion was founded by Mitchell in 1744, 
/.<?., before the starting point of botanical nomenclature, 1753 , fixed 
by the Berlin Committee, and is therefore not valid. It is true in the 
preface to the ‘.Supplement’ Mr. N. E. Brown fixes his citation of 
genera from 1735 , but he is not consistent, since Nasturtium and other 
