hoary. Peduncles very short, erect. Calyx glabrous,
somewhat patent, coloured. Petals yellow. Two small
glands between the smaller stamens and the pistil. Pods
adpressed, glabrous or hairy, with a glabrous beak, which
is one-seeded and often nearly as long as the valves ; each
valve with one straight dorsal nerve giving off several obscure
anastomosing branches upon each side. Seeds ovate,
compressed.
May not our pubescent-fruited plant be the S. heterophylla
ofDeCandolle (Syst. v. 2. p. 619.) andLaGasca (Cat. Hort.
Madr. 1816. p. 20.)? for that plant does not appear, judging
from description, to differ materially in any other respect.
The specimens figured were gathered on the sands of
Braye Bay, Alderney, where it occurs in profusion, in July
1838, by the writer of this, who had noticed it on the
Quenvais, Jersey, during the preceding summer (1837).
Many years since it wras observed by Mr. Borrer in a field
at Patcham, Sussex, in company with Centaurea solstitialis,
having probably been introduced with seed. In the Channel
Islands it has all the appearance of being an aboriginal
native.—C. C. B.