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Sir John Hill's specimen, labelled " The least Hares-eare. 

 Bupleiirum minimum R.S. pag. 221. This grows in dry, sandy 

 places — as by the road-side going from Laingdon Hills to the 

 Saltmarshes, a mile from the Hills. It flowers in July : " (2) one 

 from the Banksian herbarium, labelled " Maldon, Essex, Mr. 

 Lightfoot, 1775 " : (3) three from Edward Forster's, labelled 

 respectively '• Bupleurum tenuissimum. On a common between 

 Warley Street and Hare Hall, 1793 " ; " near South End ; " and 

 "on the wall of the Blackwater between Heybridge and Gold- 

 hanger, near Maldon, 1793 " ; (4) one from Dr. Varenne labelled 

 " Walton-on-the-Naze, 1867"; ^.nd (5) one from Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett from " Near Southend, Sept. 1882." Parkinson, in the 

 Theatvum (p. 578), mentions a B. mininium as well as 

 B. angustifolium and B. latifolium, but only speaks of the 

 two last-mentioned as British, How, in his Phytologia 

 (p. 1 8), records "Bupleurum minimum nondum descriptum 

 fioribus luteis. The smallest Hares-eare with yellow flowers : 

 found in Surrey," a record which Mr. Clarke quotes,'^ with 

 a query, under B. temiissimum ; and Merrett (Pinax, p. 17) lumps 

 Bupleurum aiigusii/oliuiii nwnspeliense, G. 608, with B. minimum, 

 p. 578, and records it from " betwixt Bromeley and Eltham in 

 Kent, and at Paddington beyond the Bridge in the way 

 to Harrow." This reference is quoted by Edward Forster 

 (E.B.S. 2763) for B. falcaium, a determination in which Messrs. 

 Trimen and Dyer do not concur {Flora of Middlesex^ loc. cit.). 

 Blackstone's record [Specimen Botanicum (1746), p. 8) " Bupleurum 

 minimum Park. 578, angustissimo folio, C. B. Pin. 278. . . . By 

 the roadside, near Thorndon, Essex, Mr. Hill," probably refers to 

 Hill's specimen now in the British Museum Herbarium and is, 

 therefore, B. tenuissimum, as inferred by Gibson {Flora of Essex, 

 p. 134). Thus there is no satisfactory record of B. falcatum 

 before Thomas Corder's in 1831, whilst Brewer's record of this 

 species from Reigate Heath {Flora of Surrey, p. loi) is not above 

 suspicion. 



" Catanance leguminosa quorundam J. B. . . Crimson-grass-Vetch. I 

 liave found it in many places, as in the bushes about Pancras-chuich near London, 

 at Black-No tley in Essex." 



This is a record mainly interesting as being one from Ray's 



3 First Records of British Flowering Plants, ed. ii., p. 60. 



