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FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS.

COMPILED BY

WILLIAM A. CLARKE, F.L.S.

(Continued from p. 88.)

Physospermum commutatum Spreng. Spec. Umb. 22 (1818). 1713. "Cornwal Saxifrage."-Pet. Herb. Brit. t. xxvi. fig. 9. Dillenius (Ray, Syn. iii. 209) identifies the figure with the plant, of which he gives a more accurate drawing: "accuratiorem quam Petiveri hujus figuram vid. Tab. viii." It must have been known as British much earlier than 1713, for Buddle, who died in 1715, has it in his herbarium "a D. Stephens e Cornubiâ missum (Hb. Sloane, cxx. 37).

Conium maculatum L. Sp. Pl. 243 (1753). 1548. "Oure Hemlocke."-Turn. Names, C ij, back.

Smyrnium Olusatrum L. Sp. Pl. 262 (1753). 1562. "Our Alexander groweth . . . in Ilandes compassed about the se, as in a certayn Ilade betwene the far parte of Sommerset shere & Wales." -Turn. ii. 68.

Bupleurum rotundifolium L. Sp. Pl. 236 (1753). 1568. In Somersetshire betwene Summerton and Marlock" (Martock). -Turn. iii. 56.

B. aristatum Bartl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. ii. 89 (1825). 1812. Found in Devonshire by the Rev. Aaron Neck, and sent to Sowerby Jan. 19, 1802 (E. B. 2468), and note on original drawing for same.

B. tenuissimum L. Sp. Pl. 238 (1753). 1663. "Near Ellesley [Eltisley] in the road from Cambridge to S. Neotes, also at Maldon in Essex," &c.-R. C. C. App. i. 3. This may be the 'Bupleurum minimum nondum descriptum floribus luteis' of How (Phyt. 18, 1650), "found in Surrey."

B. falcatum L. Sp. Pl. 237 (1753). 1834. Found by Mr. Thomas Corder in 1831, "at Norton Heath, between Chelmsford and Ongar, Essex."-E. B. S. 2763.

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Trinia vulgaris DC. Prod. iv. 103 (1830). 1570. Bristolæ in Anglia, ad rupem Vincentii, nobis primum magna copia repertam." --Lob. Adv. 331.

Apium graveolens L. Sp. Pl. 264 (1753). 1548. "Groweth in watery places and also in gardines."-Turn. Names, C viij. "Growes wilde abundantly upon the bankes in the salt marshes of Kent and Essex."-Ger. em. 1014.

A. nodiflorum Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxi. 10 (1867). 1632. "Sium umbellatum repens."-Johns. Kent, 27. "Almost in every watery place about London."-Ger. em. 257.

A. inundatum Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxi. 9 (1867). 1641. "Sium pusillum foliis variis nondum descriptum, in aquosis.' Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 33. "In Surrey near Purbright."Merrett, 114.

Cicuta virosa L. Sp. Pl. 255 (1753). 1633. "Found by Mr.

Goodyer in the ponds about Moore Parke; and by M. George Bowles in the ditches about Ellesmere [Salop], and in divers ponds in Flint-shire."-Ger. em. 257.

Carum verticillatum Koch in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 122 (1824). 1732. Near Ayr, in Scotland. Mr. W. Houston.-Martyn's Tournefort, 154.

C. segetum Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. i. 892 (1867). 1629. "Sium terrestre."-Johns. Kent, 8. First observed by John Goodyer, who says (Ger. em. 1018), "I took the description of this herb the yere 1620, but observed it long afore."

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C. Bulbocastanum Koch in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 121 (1824). 1841. Found by Rev. W. H. Coleman in 1839, near Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire."-E. B. Supp. 2862.

Sison Amomum L. Sp. Pl. 252 (1753). 1548. "Besyde Shene" (Middx.).—Turn. Names, G. iij, back.

Sium latifolium L. Sp. Pl. 251 (1753). 1597. "In moorish and marshie grounds."-Ger. 200. 1650. "By Redding."How, Phyt. 114 (1650).

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S. erectum Huds. i. 103 (1762). 1633. in the company of M. Robert Larkin going betweene Redriffe and Deptford."-Johnson in Ger. em. 257.

Agopodium Podagraria L. Sp. Pl. 265 (1753). 1597. "Groweth of it selfe in gardens without setting or sowing."Ger. 849.

Pimpinella Saxifraga L. Sp. Pl. 163 (1753). 1568. "Groweth commonlye in Englande."-Turn. iii. 11.

P. major Huds. i. 110 (1762). 1660. "In the woods about S. George Hatley, and many other woods on the borders of Cambridgeshire towards Bedfordshire."-R. C. C. 118.

Conopodium denudatum Koch in Nov. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 119 (1824). 1548. "Groweth plentuouslye in Northumberland beside Morpeth."-Turn. Names, B i, back.

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Myrrhis odorata Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 107 (1772). 1777. Frequent in the low lands [of Scotland], in orchards, and waste places, but always near houses."-Lightf. Fl. Scot. 166.

Chærophyllum temulum L. Sp. Pl. 258 (1753). 1633. "Found in June and July almost in everie hedge."-Ger. em. 1037. Scandix Pecten L. Sp. Pl. 256 (1753). 1562. "Groweth in ye corne."-Turn. ii. 130.

Anthriscus vulgaris Pers. Syn. i. 320 (1805). 1632. Hampstead Heath.-Johns. Enum. ("Myrrhis sylvestris nova Equicolorum ").

A. sylvestris Hoffm. Umb. 40 (1814). 1548. "Myrrhis . . . called in Cambrygeshyre casshes... groweth in hedges in every countrey."-Turn. Names, E v, back.

Seseli Libanotis Koch in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 111 (1824). 1690. "On Gogmagog Hills in Cambridgeshire."-Ray, Syn. i. 70. Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Dict. (1768). 1677. "By the seaside in Cornwal towards the lands end plentifully," and "Pevensey Marsh in Sussex and elsewhere."-Ray, Cat. ed. 2, 111.

Crithmum maritimum L. Sp. Pl. 246 (1753). 1548.

"Groweth much in rockes and cliffes beside Dover."— Turn. Names, C v, back.

Enanthe fistulosa L. Sp. Pl. 254 (1753). 1597. "Neere the river of Thames or Tems about the Bishop of Londons house at Fulham."-Ger. 902.

. pimpinelloides L. Sp. Pl. 255 (1753). 1844. "Dry meadow near Forthampton, Gloucestershire. Mr. Edwin Lees."J. Ball in Ann. N. H. xiv. 4.

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C. peucedanifolia Pollich, Hist. Pl. Palat. i. 289 (1776). 1794. "Banks of the Isis beyond Ifley."-Sibth. Fl. Oxon, 98. Œ. Lachenalii Gmel. Fl. Bad. i. 678 (1805). 1690. fossis. . . in parochia Quaplod agri Lincolniensis non procul ab oppido Spalding."-Ray, Syn. i. 241.

E. crocata L. Sp. Pl. 254 (1753). 1548. "Groweth muche by the Temmes syde about Shene."-Turn. Names, H iiij, back.

Œ. Phellandrium Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. 432 (1778). 1597. "In most places of England: it groweth very plentifully in the ditches by a causey as you go from Redreffe to Detforde neere London.". Ger. 905.

Œ. fluviatilis Coleman in Ann. N. H. xiii. 188 (1844). 1724. "In rivulo inter Woodstock et celebrem illum pontem Ducis Marlborugii juxta Blenheim."-Dill. in Ray, Syn. iii. 216. • In Hertfordshire, Rev. W. H. Coleman."-Bab. Man. ed. 1, 131 (1843).

Æthusa Cynapium L. Sp. Pl. 256 (1753). 1597. "Among stones rubbish... almost everywhere."-Ger. 905.

Siler trilobum Crantz, Stirp. Austr. 186, fasc. iii. 62 (1767). 1871. "Upon rough chalky rising ground near Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, June, 1867."-J. C. Melvill in Journ. Bot. 1871,

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Silaus pratensis Bess. ap. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. vi. 36. 1568. "In Englande there is a wilde kinde of Daucus with longe smal leaves which groweth commonlye in ranke medowes that our countremen call Saxifrage."-Turn. iii. 67.

Meum Athamanticum Jacq. Austr. iv. 2, 303 (1776). 1548. "I never sawe thys herbe in Englande savynge once at saynte Oswarldes" [St. Oswald, in Lee, near Hexham].-Turn. Names, E v. "Groweth in the bisshoprik of Durram in wild mores called felles."-Turn. ii. 57 (1562).

Ligusticum scoticum L. Sp. Pl. 250 (1753). 1684. "Imperatoriæ affinis umbellifera maritima Scotia."-Sibbald, Scotia, ii. 32. "On a certain sandy & stony hill six miles from Edinburgh towards Queensferry in Scotland."-Ray, Fascic. 13 (1688).

Selinum Carvifolia L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, i. 350 (1762). 1881. Found by Rev. William Fowler in July, 1880, near Broughton Woods, N. Lincolnshire.-Report of Bot. Rec. Club (1881), and Journ. Bot. 1882, pp. 93, 129.

Angelica sylvestris L. Sp. Pl. 251 (1753). 1568. "Groweth here in the lowe woodes and by the water sydes."-Turn. iii. 6.

(To be continued.)

HERMAPHRODITE HAZELS.-I have noticed in this neighbourhood (Stonyhurst, Blackburn), during the present spring, three cases of hazels bearing male catkins with some of their florets apparently bisexual. The phenomenon is most noticeable in the bud, when the long red styles protrude from between the closed-up scales. By the time the florets have opened, the style is withered, but may still be discerned as a black thread among the anthers. In each of the three plants a fairly large proportion of the male catkins, perhaps about a quarter, exhibited the abnormal growth; the number of style-bearing florets on a catkin varying from two or three to fifteen or more. The styles occurred mostly among the lower florets. I have seen the hazel quoted as an example of proterandry. In these parts the rule seems to be that as soon as a plant has matured its first pollen, it has also some mature stigmas to receive it; and that as long as mature stigmas remain, there remains also some pollen to fertilise them.-C. A. NEWDIGATE.

[See Journ. Bot, 1889, 193, for note on another somewhat similar form. Specimens of both are in the British Museum Herbarium.— ED. JOURN. BOT.]

LONICERA CAPRIFOLIUM IN WEST KENT.-Two or three years ago I thought I found Lonicera Caprifolium growing in the neighbourhood of Halling, near Maidstone, but it was too early in the year to say for certain. Last week, however, I certified it. It is not, I suppose, native, but in this station it has every appearance of one, growing on the top of a steep chalky bank on the rough edge of a large thicket of hazel, &c., and far from habitations. In the neighbourhood Helleborus fœtidus and Aquilegia vulgaris grow in considerable quantity, both, I think, certainly native. The Lonicera may be bird-sown, but were it not for the great doubt which appears to exist as to its nativity in Britain, I should not for an instant have suspected this station.-A. H. WOLLEY DOD.

FLORA OF KENT.-From various causes, the publication of this work, projected a good many years ago, has been postponed. The available materials are now, however, nearly all incorporated, and we hope to see them in print at no distant date. Owing to the great advance made recently in the knowledge of critical forms, we need, and earnestly invite, the assistance of all botanists who may visit the county during the present season, in order that the information with regard to such forms may be as accurate and complete as possible. Our own occupations, and the fact of our being non-resident in the county, make this co-operation the more necessary and valuable. The Batrachian Ranunculi, Rosa, Rubus, Potamogetons, and Chara may be instanced as groups especially requiring further study. We shall be greatly obliged by the gift or loan of specimens, which should be complete and well-preserved, as indifferent material is useless. The Sevenoaks district may be expected to promise many brambles of interest; and the marshes of Sheppey and Thanet, as well as the wealden district between Cranbrook and Romney Marsh, should repay careful search. The

autumnal sea-side vegetation also requires further attention. Any information given will receive due acknowledgment, and may be sent to the Rev. E. S. Marshall, Milford Vicarage, Godalming. It is desirable to have definite localities for plants, not necessarily for precise publication, in the case of any which might be threatened with extinction by greedy collectors. FREDERICK J. HANBURY; EDWARD S. MARSHALL.

HIERACIUM FRIESII Htn. var. PILOSUM.-I suggest this as a name for the variety described by me under H. Friesii var. hirsutum (Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 369), and I regret that I overlooked the fact of the latter varietal name having already been employed by Hartmann for a different plant.-FREDERICK J. HANBURY.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Handbook of the Iridea. By J. G. BAKER.

London: George

Bell & Sons. 1892. 8vo, pp. xii. 247. Price 7s. 6d. WE are always glad of a handbook or monograph from Mr. Baker, and regret to learn from the opening words in the preface to the present one that "this is the last of a series"; we can only hope that its assiduous author will soon set to work on a similar undertaking. Since his arrival at Kew in 1866, Mr. Baker has been busy working up the Vascular Cryptogams and petaloid Monocotyledons: thanks to his papers in the Linnean Society's Journal, and his handbooks, collections of the latter group can be arranged with comparative ease, and the frequent damping off of "Floras" before the Monocotyledons are reached, though still a great drawback, is partly remedied. Before he lays down his lens and pen, will not Mr. Baker give us a monograph or handbook of the Scitaminea, to supersede the somewhat incomplete and unwieldy

revision of Horaninow?

The arrangement in tribes and genera adopted in the work before us is practically identical with that followed in Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum. Tribe I., Moraaa, contains the large genus Iris, with the nearly allied Moraa and eleven small genera characterised by their stalked, often fugitive flowers, and the position of the style-branches opposite the stamens and the outer segments of the perianth. In separating Morea from Iris the author follows Bentham, and makes geographical distribution a factor, Iris being restricted to the north temperate zone and Moraa to the Cape and Tropical Africa, with one species in Australia. Slight differences from the Genera Plantarum are found in the separation of Hydrotania from Tigridia, on account of its campanulate perianth, the substitution of Sweet's name Herbertia for Bentham's Alophia, the former claiming priority, while the small Cape genus, Hexaglottis, is no longer stigmatised as a "genus anomalum."

Tribe II., Sisyrinchica, differs from the first in having the stylebranches alternating with the anthers. It is subdivided into four subtribes-the Crocea, with a bulb or corm, and one-flowered spathes;