18 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Crocus nudiflorus Sm. E. B. 491 (1798). 1738. "In 

 Nottinghaui Meadows and about Treat-Bridge." — Deering, Cat. 

 Stirp. 57 (as Culchicuin commune; but see Ordoyno, Fl. Notting- 

 ham., 19). 



Romulea Columnse Seb. & Maur. Fl. Eom. Prod. (1818). 

 1834. Found 24tli March, 1834, by W. C. Trevelyan and John 

 Milford, " on the Warren between Dawhsh and Exmouth, Devon- 

 shire."— Loudon's Mag. N. H. vii. 272. 



Sisyrinchium angustifolia Mill Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 1846. 

 " Collected in a wood near Woodford, Co. Galway" [by Mr. James 

 Lynam in 1845] .— Phytol. ii. 500. 



Gladiolus illyricus Koch, Synopsis, 698 (1837). 1857. 

 " Found by the Rev. W. H. Lucas in the New Forest, Hampshire, 

 in 1856." — C. C. Babington in Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xx. 158. 



Narcissus Pseudo -narcissus L. 8p. PI. 289 (1753). 1548. 

 " Our yealoAve daffodyl." — Turn. Names, E vj. 



Galanthus nivalis L. Sp. PI. 288 (1753). 1778. "In 

 pratis et ad sepes ; in pomariis frequens, in comitatibus Westmor- 

 landico, Cumberlandico, Lancasteriensi, Gloucesterensi." — Huds. 

 ed. ii. 140. 



Leucojum gestivum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 414 (1762). c. 1785. 

 "Found undoubtedly wild betwixt Greenwich and Woolwich . . . 

 also ... in the Isle of Dogs." — Curtis, Fl. Londinensis, fasc. 5, t. 23. 



L. vernum L. Sp. PI. 289 (1753). 1866. " In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bridport, Dorset." — Mr. Mansell-Pleydell in Journ. 

 Bot. 1866, 209 : but see Gard. Mag. 1836, 371, and Fl. Oxfordsh. 301. 



Tamus communis L. Sp. PI. 1028 (1753). 1597. "In 

 hedges and bushes almost everywhere." — Ger. 722. 



Ruscus aculeatus L. Sp. PI. 1041 (1753). 1548. " Groweth 

 in Kent wilde by hedge sydes." — Turn. Names, F viij. 



Asparagus officinalis L. Sp. PI. 313(1753). 1597. "Groweth 

 wilde in Essex ... in great plentie neere unto Harwich, at a 

 place called Laudamer lading." — Ger. 954. 



Polygonatum verticiliatum All. Fl. Ped. i. 131 (1785). 

 1793. "Arthur Bruce, Esq., Secretary to the Nat. Hist. Society 

 of Edinburgh, first found it, July 1st, 1792, in the Den Rechip, a 

 deep woody valley, four miles north-east of Duukeld, in Perthshire." 

 — E. B. 128. 



P. multifiorum All. Fl. Ped. i. 131 (1785). 1562. "Well 

 knowen ... in England." — Turn. ii. 98. "In Somersetshire, 

 upon the north side of a place called Mendip," &c. — Ger. 758 (1597). 



P. officinale All. Fl. Ped. i. 131 (1785). 1597. "Groweth 

 in certaine woods in Yorkshire, called Clapdale Woods, three miles 

 from a village named Settle."- — Ger. 758. 



Maianthemura Convallaria Weber in Wigg. Prim. Fl. Holsat. 

 15 (1780). 1597. " Groweth in Lancashire, in Dingley wood, 

 sixe miles from Preston in Aundernesse ; and in Harwood, neere to 

 Blackburne likewise." — Ger. 330. 



Convallaria majalis L. Sp. PI. 314 (1753). 1597. "On 

 Hampsted Heath, fower miles from London, in great abundance," 

 &c.— Ger. 332. 



(To be continued.) 



