37 * 
Notes. 
If, on the other hand, the homologies of the oophore of any of the 
higher plants be traced back, say of the Mosses, the tissues or organs 
will, where any homology is traceable, be found in some part of the 
vegetative body, not in the reproductive cells, of the oophore of 
Coleochaete. 
It is for these reasons that there can be no homologies between the 
oophore of a plant and its sporophore or the sporophore of any 
other. 
J. REYNOLDS VAIZEY, Cambridge. 
August , 1887. 
SPERGULA PEETTAETDRA, L. AS AET IRISH PLANT. — 
While recently engaged in examining the plants in the Dillenian 
Herbarium in the Oxford collection, I came upon a specimen of a 
Spergula , which from the seeds I saw was S. pentandra. It was 
labelled ‘351. 3 from G. Sherard : * the number refers to the page and 
paragraph of the 3rd edition of Ray’s Synopsis, and G. Sherard is 
William Sherard, the munificent donor of plants and endowments to 
the Oxford Botanic Garden, sometime Consul at Smyrna. 
The plant described in the Synopsis 351. 8 is Spergula annua 
semine foliaceo nigro circulo membranaceo albo cine to. Cat. Giss. 46, 
‘ In Hibernia locis arenosis observavit Dr. G[ulielmus] Sherard.’ 
Dillenius, the editor of the 3rd edition of Ray’s Synopsis, adds a 
synonym 6 Alsine Spergula dicta semine membranaceo fusco Mor. Ray, 
Syn. ed. ii. 210. 11/ but this probably refers to Spergula verna , 
Willd. = Y. Morisonii, Boreau. He also quotes as a synonym £ Alsine 
Spergula annua semine foliaceo nigro circulo membranaceo albo cindo , 
H. Ox. ii. 351. 16’ sic [it is 551, par. 16, plate 13]. This is teste 
Grenier et Godron S. pentandra, L. Unfortunately no specimens of 
these winged-seeded Spergulae are preserved in the Morisonian 
Herbarium. Page 551, par. 13 is still there, and is S. arvensis , L. 
551. 14 is Buda rubra , Dumort. 551. 15 is Buda neglecta. 
In the Specimen Plantarum, ed. i. 400, and ed. ii. 630, Linnaeus 
describes (certainly in a comprehensive manner) his ‘ *$. pentandra 
foliis verticillatis, floribus pentandris ; Loefl., It. 143 Spergula foliis 
filifor?nibus verticillatis raris , seminibus nigris; Sauv., Monsp. 167 
Alsine Spergula facie minima seminibus emarginatis ; Tourn., Inst. 244, 
Vaill. Paris. 8 Alsine Spergulae facie minima ; Magn., Monsp. 14 
