letzteren, . . Kelche abstehend». He calls this bastard 
Sagina media, which is the first published name of 
this plant. 
In Dalla Torre’s and Sarntheim’s Flora, Die Farn- 
und Blütenpflanzen von Tirol etc.. Teil 2 (1909), p. 155, 
another name of the same hybrid is published viz. 
Sagina hybrida Kerner in lit.» 
The same hybrid was discovered again in Tromsö 
in the northernmost part of Norway by Professor G. 
Lagerheim, who published it with a full and instructive 
description under the name Sagina Normaniana in Kgl. 
Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifters 1898. No. 1. 
I have had the advantage to consult Prof. Lagerheim 
about this plant and obtained from him the important 
information that specimens were sent (alive) from Tromsö 
to Professor S. Murbeck in Lund. I therefore applied 
to Prof. Murbeck, who kindly sent me a good many dried 
specimens collected in the Lund Botanical Gardens in 
1898. There is not the slightest doubt that this culti- 
vated »S. Normaniana» is identical with Mr Holmbergs 
specimens of procumbens X saginoides from Nordland 
and with the widely spread Scandinavian smallflowered 
Sagina, met with in so many preserved specimens, but 
confused with saginoides. 
Consequently, the Sagina from Ben Lawers must 
be the same plant, and after a thorough examination 
of the numerous samples collected there by Druce, 
Ostenfeld, and myself, I only can state that they really 
cannot be distinguished from the Scandinavian » Nor- 
maniana.» And as a consequence of this apparent iden- 
tity, they should all most likely be considered as hybrids 
of the parents procumbens and saginoides. 
Should they also be identified with the hybrid S . 
procumbens X saginoides from Switzerland, or S. media 
Brügg.? I cannot forbear to publish here a statement 
from Prof. H. Schinz in Zürich, who kindly informed 
