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Notes. 
pentandra with 5-valved capsules. Sherard evidently well knew the 
plant in question. 
The following is a detailed list of my notes made on the specimens 
contained in the Oxford Herbarium. My own names and corrections 
are in brackets : — 
S. vulgaris , Boenn. Todaro. 988 Sicily [!]. 
S. arvensis , L. Rel. Mail. No. 929 Upsala [var. S. saliva , Boenn.]. 
„ „ Rel. Mail. 195 St. Maur, France [var. S. vulgaris , 
Boenn.]. 
„ „ FI. Lusit. col. Welwitsch [var. S. saliva, Boenn.]. 
„ „ FI. Ingria 122 [var. S. vulgaris, Boenn.]. 
„ „ Morocco, A. Grant [subvar. glutinosa (Lange), var. 
A. vulgaris , Boenn.]. 
,, „ Smyrna Heldreich [var. £. vulgaris, Boenn.]. 
„ „ PL Canar. Bourg. 334 [is a plant with 3-valved capsule 
(not 5 as in arvensis and pentandra) with the darker 
coloured seed- wings of S. verna, Willd. Probably a 
sub-species]. 
A. pentandra , L. Fontainebleau, C. Fischer [!] Berlin [!] Hb. 
Sherard [!], Hb. Dill. [Hibern. !], Hb. Wirtgen. 
Germ. [!] 
„ „ L. Reichb. Exs. No. 1988 Dresden [A. verna, Willd.]. 
„ „ Khasia India, Hook. f. and Th. [A. arvensis, L., var. 
S. saliva , Boenn.]. 
„ „ Himalaya bor. Hook. f. and Th. [a 3-valved capsular 
plant near S. verna, Willd. not pentandra, L.]. 
„ „ L. PI. Canar. 410 Bourgeau [is not S. pentandra, but 
a plant with 3-valved capsule and very narrow 
fuscous wings to the seeds, agreeing fairly well with 
S. verna, except in dehiscence]. 
S. Morisonii, Bor. Sierra Guadarama Bourgeau [Hisp. is A. verna, 
Willd., a name synonymous with, but anterior to, 
that of Boreaus]. 
„ „ Bor. Puel. et Mail. Vend 6 me, France, and F. Ahlberg, 
Upsala [are S. verna, Willd.]. 
A recent visit to the extreme South-west of Ireland which I made in 
search of the plant was unsuccessful, but I did not go over the ground 
visited by Sherard. About Dublin and Portmarnock both S. vulgaris 
and S. saliva occurred. 
