582 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
thoroughly naturalised. It is perhaps a quarter of a mile from the 
village of Aber, and as much from the Hotel, The sea-shore close by 
is marshy and muddy, and probably not much visited.” — F. T. M. 
Erythraa . Coast sandhills, N. Uist, vice-county no, 
July 1898. — W. A. Shoolbred. “I think there is no doubt that 
this is a form of E. Centaurium. Very similar forms occur in the 
sands of Tresco and St. Mary’s, Scilly.” — W. H. Beeby. 
Centaurium^ Pers., var. capitata, Koch.” — E. F. Linton. 
E. latifolia, Sm. Sand dunes, Hightown, S. Lancs., July 1898. — 
J. A. Wheluon. “I have labelled this so with considerable diffidence, 
as I do not know Smith’s plant. It is, however, from one of the 
recorded localities, and has somewhat of the habit of the plant figured 
in ‘ English Botany.’ The calyx is much longer than in ordinary 
E. Centaurium which grew with the specimens sent, the corolla lobes 
more acute, th^ colour of the petals slightly different, and some of the 
leaves at least are distinctly five-ribbed. The leaves are, however, not 
remarkably wide, but that is a variable character in all the species, 
and these grew in loose, barren sand, whereas some of the plants 
distributed previously are from fields partially cultivated on the 
coast.” — J. A. W. “ Certainly not the plant of Smith. The figure 
in ‘ Eng. Bot.,’ ed. iii., is a very good one, and will at once show how 
different the true plant is from Mr. VVheldon’s. The lower leaves do 
slightly resemble it, but the shape is different, and the arrangement of 
the flowers is totally different. In Mr. Wheldon’s plant the calyx 
segments are lanceolate-subulate, in Smith’s they are lanceolate- 
triangular. I have little doubt this is a condensed form of E. pulchella. 
Has the true E. latifolia been gathered since 1874? For remarks on 
Smith’s plant see Britten, ‘J. of Bot.,’ 1872, pp. 166-7.” — Bennett. 
centauriu 7 n, Pers., var. capitata, Koch.” — -E. F. Linton. 
Gentiana baltica, Murb, Coast near Nairn, and bank of Spey, 
near Aviemore, E. Inverness, July and August 1898; west coast of 
N. Uist, vice-county no. — W. A. Shoolbred. Of the N. Uist plant 
Mr. Beeby writes : — “ So it appears to me, but I do not feel sure that 
the true root-leaves are present.” The Nairn plant he refers to G 
campestris, and as to that from Speyside he is doubtful, but prefers 
placing it also with G. campestris. 
Myosotis caspitosa^ F. Schultz. Ditch on the road from Moffat 
to the Auchencat Burn on Hartfell, between Lawrencefield and 
Biddings, North-Central Dumfriesshire, 21st September 1898. Alti- 
tude 400 to 450 feet. Not recorded for county 72 in ‘Top. Bot.,’ 
ed. ii., p. 324. — Charles Bailey. 
Solanum rostratum, Dunal. Ballast, Aintree, Liverpool, S. Lancs. 
July 1898. — J. A. Wheldon. August 1898. — S. Gasking. By a 
slip of the pen Mr. Wheldon labelled his specimens S. heterostylum't 
instead of A. heterandrwri^ Pursh., a synonym for 6". rostratum, which 
latter name has a year’s priority. — J. G, 
