53 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from p. 18.) 



Simethis bicolor Kunth, Euum. iv. 618 (1843). 1847. Found 

 by Miss Charlotte Wilkins, of Westbury, "amongst heath and 

 furze in a lonely spot [Poole Heath] more than two miles from 

 Bourne" [Bournemouth, Hants]. — Gard. Chron. 1847, 467. 



Allium Ampeloprasum L. Sp. PL 295 (1753). 1688. "A. nwn- 

 tanum iiuijor An(jUruni. Newtoni. In parva insula Hohns dicta supra 

 Bristolium in Sabrinte aestuario copiose proveuit." — Ray Hist. ii. 

 1126. A specimen collected by Newton in this locality is in Herb. 

 Sloane, clii. 153. 



A. Scorodoprasum L. Sp. PI. 297 (1753). 1690. "In 

 montibus Westmorlandicis observavit D. Lawson. In Troutbeck 

 holm by Great Strickland." — Ray Syn. i.j 165. [" 1 received a 

 plant of it from Mr. Tho. Edwards, apothecarie in Excester, who 

 found it growing in the west parts of England." — Ger. 143.] 



A. sphserocephalum L. Sp. PI. 297 (1753). 1847. Found 

 in 1847 by H. 0. Stephens on St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol. — Phyt. 

 ii. 929. 



A. vineale L. Sp. PI. 299 (1753). 1548. " Crowe garhke 

 . . . groweth in the fieldes." — Turn. Names, A vj, back. " In 

 middowes and feldes in every countrey." — Turn. i. 26 (1551). 



A. oleraceum L. Sp. PL 299 (1753). 1688. " Invenimus 

 inter segetes Notleias in Essexia." — Ray Hist. ii. 1119. 



A. Schaenoprasum L. Sp. PL 301 (1753). 1777. "By 

 Fast-Caste, on the borders of Berwick-shire. Dr. Parsons."— 

 Lightf. Fl. Scot. 180. 



A. sibiricum L. 1843. " Rocks and cliffs near the sea in 

 Cornwall. Tintagel. Rev. R. [W.] T. Bree. Between Kynance 

 Cove and Mullion."— Bab. Man. ed. 1, 307. 



A. triquetrum L. Sp. PL 300 (1753). 1875. " Most abundant 

 near Helston, Cornwall . . . J. Cunnack, 1874." — Rept. Bot. Exch. 

 Club, 1872-4, 43; Journ. Bot. 1875, 378. 



A. ursinum L. Sp. PL 300 (1753). 1551. "Groweth in 

 woddes about Bath."— Turn. i. 26 (78). 



Muscari racemosus Mill. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 1805. "Fields 

 at Hengrave [Suffolk] ; and plantations at Cavenham. Sir T. G. 

 Cullum."— Bot. Guide, 548. 



Scilla autumnalis L. Sp. PL 309 (1753). 1629. "Groweth 

 wilde in many places of England. I gathered divers rootes for my 

 garden, from the foote of a high banke by the Thames side at the 

 hither end of Chelsey, before you come at the Kings Barge-house." 

 —Park. Parad. 132. 



S. verna Huds. Fl. Angl. ii. 142 (1778). 1650. «' At the 

 Kings-end neere Dublin. Mr. Heaton." — How, Phyt. 60. 



S. festalis Salisb. Prod. 242 (1796). 1548. " Muche in Eug- 

 lande about Syon and Shene " (Middx.). — Turn. Names, D vj. 



