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S. neglectum Beeby in Journ. Bot. 1885, 193. 1885. Found 

 by Mr. W. H. Beeby "in October, 1883, at Albury Ponds, near 

 Guildford, Surrey."— Journ. Bot. 1885, 26, 193. 



S. simplex Huds. Fl. Angl. ii. 401 (1778), 1597. "Common 

 tbroughout Enghxnd." — Ger. 41. 



S. affine Scbinzl. in Flora, 1845, G70. 1851. "In lakes, 

 Island of N. Uist, and Galloway, Scotland; Snowdon." — Bab. 

 Man. ed. 3, 338 ; see also Bot. Gaz. iii. 158. 



S. minimum Fr. Summa, ii. 560 (1849). 1666. " On the 

 East side of Scrooby nigh a great Wood where the foot way is cast 

 up Nottinghamshire." — Merrett, 115. 



Arum maculatum L. Sp. PI. 966 (1753). 1548. " Growefch 

 in euery hedge almost in Englande about townes in the spryng of 

 the yere." — Turn. Names, B ij, back. 



A. italicum Mill. Diet. fd. viii/ (1768). 1854. Discovered 

 by Dr. Bromfield and Mr. Albert Hambrough in the Undercliff, 

 Isle of Wight.— Phytol. v. 194. 



Acorus Calamus L. Sp. PI. 324 (1753). 1666. " Found by 

 Dr. Brown neer Lyn, and by Mr. Brown of Oxford, near Hedly 

 in Surry." — Merrett, 2. " In fluvio Yare prope Nordvicum 

 [Norwich] a cl. viro D. Thos. Brown M.D. primum observatus, 

 nobisq. ante decern annos ostensus fuit." — Kay Cat. 7 (1670). 



Lemna trisulca L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1597. " I found it 

 once in a ditch by Bermondsey house neer to London and never 

 elsewhere." — Ger. 681. 



L. minor L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1562. "Well knowen in 

 England and specially of them that have pondes." — Turn, ii. 33, 

 back; but see 'Libellus' and 'Names,' under Lens palustris. 



L. gibba L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1778. " L. minor f3. gibba." 

 — Huds. ii. 399. " Lower Bishop's pool, Northwick, near Worcester, 

 and in a pool near the east side of Malvern Chace, Worcestershire, 

 Sept. 8, 1776."— Stokes in With. Bot Arr. ed. 2, p. 1020 (1787). 



L. polyrrhiza L. Sp. P. 970 (1753). 1724. "In fossis et 

 aquis purioribus passim occurrit." — Bay Syn. iii. 129. 



Wolffia Michelii Schleid. Beitr. 233'(1844). 1866. In "a 

 pond near Staines Common, Middlesex." — Dr. Trimen in Journ. 

 Bot. 1866, p. 219. 



Alisma Plantago-aquatica L. Sp. PI. 342 (1753). 1597. 

 "About the brinkes of rivers, pondes, and ditches almost every- 

 where."— Ger. 338. Figure onlv, Turn. ii. 94 (1562). 



A. ranunculoides L. Sp. PI. 343 (1753). 1633. "I found 

 [this] in the companie of Mr. Willm. Broad and Mr. Leonard 

 Buckner in a ditch on this side Margate in the Isle of Tenet." — 

 Johnson, Ger. em. 417. 



Elisma natans Buchenau in Pringsheim, Jahrbuch, vii. 25 

 (1869). 1732. "In the great lake below the old castle at 

 Llanberys ; Mr. Brewer." — Martyn's Tournefort, i. 17. Samuel 

 Brewer's MS. account of his journey in Wales in 1726 (in Bot. 

 Dept. Brit. Mus.) contains the following: — "July 21. I took a 

 walk down to the meadows below the old castle, and in the great 

 and lower moss lake towards Carnarvon met with .... Bur flag 



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