that species. The leaves are subterete, mucronate, and, as
well as the stem, are usually more or less covered with gland-
tipped hairs. The petals are broader than is represented in
our plate, of a uniform bright pink colour; they are contiguous,
and slightly exceed the calyx.
L. rupicola was first recorded as a British plant in the
London Catalogue (Ed. 5), under the name of Spergularia
rupestris, having been found in Guernsey by Mr. J. T. Boswell
Syme. We have seen specimens from Jersey, Isle of
Wight, Devon, Pembroke, Carnarvon, Anglesea, Wicklow,
Dublin, and Antrim. Kindberg in his monograph states
that there are some specimens in the Stockholm Herbarium
gathered near Edinburgh. He also mentions the plant as
found in France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
Lepigonum, rupicola is not found in salt-marshes, but grows
in crevices and on ledges of rock, or in sandy soil at their
base. The specimen here figured was gathered on the Landslip
near Luccombe, in the Isle of Wight, in the month of
June.
This genus was named Lepigonum by Fries in the Flora
Hallandica (1818): the generic name Spergularia was first
employed in Presl’s Flora Cechica (1819), and by Cambessedes
in St. Hilaire’s Flora Brasiliensis (1829), Persoon having
previously used the same term Spergularia for a section of
Arenaria, but not generically, in his Synopsis Plantarum
(1805). It is clear therefore that the first name given to
these plants as a separate genus was conferred by Fries.
The name L. rupicola has been adopted in preference to
L. rupestre, on account of the latter having been employed
by Cambessedes for a very different species of the same
genus which he obtained from the southern coast of Brazil.
—A. G. More.