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mens gathered in v.c. 89 East Perth, near the Spital of Glen Shoe 
in July 1912. Gatherings in 1902 in v.c. 97 Westerness, near 
Banavie (Inverness) and on the shore of Loch Eil (Argyll), are, he 
considers, intermediate between suecicci and germanica. 
In Beeby’s herbarium at the South London Botanical Institute, 
specimens collected by him in v.c. 112 Shetland, at Hillswick Ness, 
Northmaven, in 1896, have been determined by Wettstein as G. sue¬ 
cica var. islandica Murb. Murbeck’s original description (l. c.) runs : 
“ Planta 4-10 cm. alta; folia caulina media oblonga, quam in typo 
minus obtusa, caulina superiora ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula vel 
acuta.” This plant is not included by Dr. Druce in his “ Flora 
Zetlandica ” (Rep. B. E. C. vi. pp. 3, 457-546; 1921). The Conti¬ 
nental distribution of G. suecica includes Iceland, Faroe Islands, 
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Germany, whilst the 
var. islandica occurs in Iceland and the Faroes. Perhaps botanists 
will examine their herbaria and report whether suecica lurks unsus- 
pectedly therein. Having first satisfied themselves that their plants 
come under G. campestris and not G. baltica , on account of the 
biennial (not annual) habit, the spatlmlate broader above the middle 
basal leaves—not ovate or lanceolate broader at or below the middle ; 
the usually longer corolla with tube more exserted, etc., they may 
then look for the more obvious characters of suecica —the long inter¬ 
nodes and the more obtuse and strap-shaped stem-leaves. 
Just as G. Amarella L. has two forms— G. lingulata C. A. 
Agardh, only represented in Britain by its var. preecox Towns, 
(summer flowering with few internodes and blunt stem-leaves) and 
G. axillaris Schmidt (autumn flowering with many internodes and 
acute stem-leaves), so also has G. campestris analogous forms— 
suecica and germanica —with similar characteristics. 
Murbeck {op. cit. 14) proposes the name G. Wettsteinii for the 
plant of our chalk downs usually known by Willdenow’s name 
germanica, but this suggestion has been generally adopted. 
I should be pleased to examine any doubtful G. campestris forms 
which may be sent me. 
SHOET NOTE. 
Cerastium TETEATamuM Curt. Curtis in his original descrip¬ 
tion of this species (FI. Lond. fasc. vi. 31 ; 1796-8) mentions that 
its stems, peduncles, and calyx are all more or less viscid. Syme 
(Eng. Bot. ed. 3, ii. 78; 1864) describes the whole plant as “very 
viscous, thickly covered with short spreading hairs, each terminated 
by a sticky gland.” Murbeck in his valuable paper dealing with 
several critical species of this genus (Bot. Notiser, 1898, 257) ascribes; 
to G. teirandrum the character “ mer aller mindre klibbharig 
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(more or less glandular-hairy). Ascherson and Graebner (Syn. Mittel- 
eur. FI. v. Abtli. i. 666; 1918) describe it as “ driisig behaart ”; 
Druce (in Cambr. Br. FI. iii. 52 ; 1920) gives “ shoot very viscid 
