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mere fact of thick spikes does not make radicans. Nolte, ‘ Nov. FI. 
Holst./ I (1826), may have meant the true plant as radicans, as he 
says, ‘vere perennis,’ etc. The true plant seems to be found in 
France. Lange says, ‘ N. Spain.’ 6'. fri/ticosa, S, radicafis, Willk. and 
Lange, ‘Prodr. FI. Hisp.,’ vol. i, 308: ‘Ad littora oceani pr. Cobus 
Galliciie, Lange.’ And Richter accepts ‘Angl. Gall. Hisp.’ I much 
doubt the Denmark record. I now believe that we must consider 
Woods’ plant as a subspecies. S. lignosa, Woods, in ‘Proceed. Linn. 
Soc.,’ ii., 109-113 (Ap. 15, 1851), = S. radicans, Sm., j3, lignosa, Town- 
send, in ‘FI. Hants,’ 287 (1883). W’hat we have to do is to find out 
how Woods’ forms are represented on the Continent ; surely we are 
better able to do this than the Germans.” “ Mr. Bennett’s specimen 
noticed above is the only rooting one that I have seen out of a large 
number examined. At Thorney, near Emsworth, where S. lignosa 
abounds on the shingly west and south shores, I found several plants 
growing in soft mud, but displaying no tendency to root — just the 
converse of his experience at Shoreham with 5 . radicans.'' — Ed. 
Suceda fruticosa, Forsk., var. procumbejis, Syme. Sandy spit 
opposite Mudeford, S. Hants ; rather plentiful, and chiefly if not 
entirely this form, on the exposed and flatter side of this spit, August 
19th, 1901. — E. h'. Linton. “Not uncommon on the south coast; 
I have seen it as far north as E. Ross.” — Ed. 
Polygonum Cofwo/vulus, L. On waste ground off St. David’s 
Road, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, West Lancashire, 31st August 1901. Not 
recorded for v.-c. 60 in ‘Topographical Botany,’ p. 356 ; one of three 
English counties for which a record is lacking.— Charles Bailey. 
‘‘Recorded in ‘Record Club Report,’ 1884-6.” — Ar. Bennett. “I have 
seen it in v.-c. 60.” — Ed. 
F. Paii, Bab. Mudeford, S. Hants, 19th August 1901. Very 
plentiful this year, with a few plants of P. 7fiaritinium, L., scattered 
about amongst it. The two species were so distinct to sight that my 
boy soon understood the difference, and brought me in three s[>eci- 
mens of the rarer species without a mistake. I only saw one ambiguous 
plant, which was nearest P. maritwium ; the fruit typical and well 
developed. — E. F. Linton. “ The older name, P. Roberti, Loisel., 
appears to cover seaside forms of P. avicu/are, L. as well — so Prof. 
Babington wrote to me in 1888.” — Ed. 
Rumex crispiis, L., var. tri^ra/mlatus, Syme (confirmed by Mr. Ar. 
Bennett). Margin of salt marsh, Fleetwood, July 1901. — J. A. 
W’heldon. 
Euphorbia siricta, L. Orig. 'Fintern, v.-c., 35 ; hort. Thurcaslon, 
Leicester, 1901. Coll. T. A. Preston; comm. A. B. Jackson. 
E. exigua, L., var. .V compact form, growing in limestone crevices 
— not in arable land — between Rhos-on Sea and the Little Orme’s 
Head, borders of Denbigh and Carnarvon, September 1901. I send 
this compact, stout form to shew its condition when growing in lime- 
stone crevices near the shore.— J. Cosmo-Melvill. “I do not see 
