440 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
men from the same locality. The plant is certainly F. lepida^ Jorcl. 
I named it thus for Mr. Marshall last summer. — E. Drabble. 
Viola Ctirtisii, Forst., var. Synieil Sand dunes of Rockfield, 
Wicklow; also seen near Black Head, Co. Clare, June, 1909, with 
petals bright golden-yellow, broader than those of the pale flowered 
Braunton Burrows plant, and in some instances the flowers one inch 
long. Some of the plants were of very large size, and a mass of 
blossoms. — G. C. Druce. This is Viola Curiisii, Forster (Viola 
Curtisii^ Forst., var. Forsttri, H. C. Watson, ‘Comp. Cybele Brit.’ 
1870. The flowers are brighter yellow than usual, but the plant 
seems to be fairly typical Curtisii. — E. Drabble. I consider this 
quite typical V. Curtisii =2 l. Forsteri, Wats. Syme says that F. Symei 
has flowers an inch long, and unusually large stipules, which does 
not fit Mr. Druce’s plants; he adds that he does not think V. 
Symei really distinct from the original Braunton Burrows plant, on 
which Forster founded the species. — E. S. Marshall. Forster’s 
description of V. Curtisii is, “ flowers small, petals scarcely longer 
than calyx, yellow, with blackish branching radiating lines, the 
lateral paler than the lower, the upper whitish,” which does not 
agree with the Irish plant.— G. C. Druce. 
Polygala grandijlora (Bab.). Cliff's of Ben Bulben, Sligo, 
June, 1909. 1 have written this as above because it well appears 
to deserve sub-specific rank. The plant is curiously constant in its 
main feature along a considerable range of limestone cliffs. On 
the limestone and maritime cliff's of Clare a form of P. vulgaris 
occurs, but it does not approach this in the size and texture of the 
leaves, or indeed in the flower-characters. — G. C. Druce. 
Tunica Saxifraga, Scop. At the foot of a land-cliff on ground 
adjoining a public path near the railway station, Tenby, Pembroke- 
shire, v.-c. 45, September 2, 1909. Last year I sent to the Club a 
single example of this alien, which had been collected in Tenby, in 
the summer of 1908, by a Manchester botanist, Mr. George Ginger, 
of Longsight. He had sent it to me to get its name, and mentioned 
that it grew in profusion near the railway station. 1 visited the 
locality the following year, and am able to send a good supply to 
the members. It had evidently been an escape from a garden at 
the top of the cliff, and had subsequently sown itself. Mr. Spencer 
H. Bickham tells me that he had noticed the same plant at Tenby 
two or three years ago. It is a widely-spread European species, 
its head-quarters being in the south-east of the continent. — Charles 
Bailey. Right. — S. H. Bickham. 
Silcne dichotoma, Ehrh. On a sloping field formerly under 
cultivation, near Guitinghill Farm, Ford, E. Gloucester, v.-c. 33. July 
