the tip. The seeds are usually rough with raised prominences,
hut this is not a constant character.
The above description applies more especially to L. salinum,
Kindb.; but as L. medium, Fries, and L. leiospermum, Kindb.,
are chiefly distinguished from L. salinum by the different
proportions of the bracts and by the greater smoothness of
their seeds, characters which seem to be very variable, it is
reasonable to conclude that all three plants are forms of one
species.
Lepigonum medium, Fries, is known by its peduncles being
leafy to the top of the panicle; its pedicels are short, about
equalling the capsule, which is more or less exserted. It is
usually smaller than L. salinum, and the winged seeds are
more numerous. L. medium appears to be far less common
than L. salinum in this country, but ranges from the Isle of
Wight to the north of Scotland.
L. leiospermum, Kindb., is more slender; its panicles are
usually lengthened out into a leafy raceme. The pedicels
are about twice as long as the capsule, and its seeds smooth.
I t appears to be scarce in Britain; the only specimens which
we have seen were gathered in Cheshire.
Kindberg, in his recently published and elaborate monograph
of this genus, has shown that L. neglectum of his
Symbolce is the Spergularia salina of Presl, and that being a
much older name of the species, the first-named author has
caused it to supersede that previously used by him.
The figure was made from specimens gathered near Bem-
bridge, Isle of Wight, early in the month of June. Unfortunately
the artist has not been able to give a representation of
the petals, which had fallen before he received the specimens.
—A. G. More.