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tainly introduced with grass seed, though now well established 
in rocky ground and among native plants. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Silme . Lydd, E. Kent, July 1904. This plant is 
abundant along the railway from New Romney to Lydd, and is 
also found on the shingle in that neighbourhood over an extensive 
area. The flowers vary from white to deep rose, or dull reddish 
colour (both forms are sent), and there is also considerable 
variation in the viscidity of the plant. The Rev. E. S. Marshall 
in the Flora of Kent refers it to 6". italica, but it appears to me 
distinct from that species as I know it on the continent, for 
though the calyx is more cylindric, and narrowed at the base, 
than that of typical S. nutaris, yet it is not truly clavate as in 
6". italica, I should consider it to be a well-marked variety 
of S. nutans, distinguished by its narrower leaves which have 
the hairs shorter and more rigid, and the plant has a somewhat 
dift'erent habit. I have a specimen which occurred as a casual 
in Berkshire, , and another from Worm Hill, Derbyshire, which 
I think are the same plant. Mr. Marshall speaks in a positive 
manner as to its being native at Dungeness, and I am not 
controverting the point, but it must be admitted that the deposit 
of shingle on which it grows is not of a very remote origin. 
— G. Claridge Druce. Mr. C. E. Salmon refers Mr. Druce’s 
plant, and others from different parts of Britain, to S. dubia, 
Herbich. In Journ. Bot. XLIII. (1905), p. 128, Mr. Salmon 
writes : — “Whether S. dubia is retained as a species, subspecies, 
or variety, is a matter of taste and temperament ; it contrasts 
with its near allies in the following points. From S. italica, 
Pers., it differs in having its petals crowned, not auricled and 
not ciliate, its calyx not so narrowly elongated at its base and 
teeth acute, and its carpophore not nearly as long as capsule : 
from S. paradoxa, L., by its not elongate ‘ italica like ’ calyx 
and shorter carpophore : and, finally, it may be separated from 
S. nutans, L., by its habit, which is much more delicate and grace- 
ful ; by its being much less hairy and viscid in all its parts ; by 
its root-leaves being long-petioled, spathulate acute, with many 
almost glabrous leaves, except for scabrid margins ; by its narrow, 
lanceolate-acute stem-leaves ; and by its calyx being narrower and 
more cylindrical.” Mr. Marshall writes : — “ Is Herbich’s species 
identical with S. patens, Peete (an earlier name) ? ” — J. G. 
C. triviale. Link. Variety approaching alpinum, Mert. & 
Koch. Damp precipice, Ystolion duon, Carnarvonshire, 14th July 
1904. This form is abundant in the damp parts of mountain preci- 
pices in N. Wales, and reappears in S. Wales at the Brecon Beacons. 
In the length of its petals it makes an approach to var, alpinum, 
but is nearer to the type than to this variety. — Augustin Ley. 
“I agree. It is a montane form with rather larger flowers and 
