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FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



with a small long narrow leaf swimming upon the water, and a 

 plant with a white 3 leaved flower with fruit shaped like a narrow 

 purslain leaf on the top, the under leaves like Suhidaria in shape, 

 though not tubulous or jointed as Siihuho-ia is." 



Sagittaria sagittifolia L. Sp. PI. 993 (1753). 1570. "In 

 Anglia prope Oxonium prope moenia, . . . etiam Londini ad arcis 

 Regife vallum, & in Tamesis crepidinibus palludosis." — Lob. 

 Adv. 126. 



Damasonium stellatum Pers. Syn. i. 400 (1805). 1633. 

 " I found [it] a little beyond Ilford, in the way to Rumford, and 

 Mr. Goodyer found it also growing upon Hounslow Heath." — ■ 

 Ger. em. 417. 



Butomus umbellatus L. Sp. PI. 372 (1753). 1570. "In 

 lacuniis & torpidis aut lente fluentibus rivulis Belgiiie, Angliie, &c. 

 Londini ad arcem Regiam casteriumqiie navium, hibernicarum 

 nascitur." — Lob. Adv. 44. 



Triglochin palustre L. Sp. PI. 338 (1753). 1597. "Gramen 

 aquaticum spicatum. In mirie and muddie grounds." — -Ger. 12. 

 " Tamworth."— Withering, Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 378 (1787). 



T. maritimum L. Sp. PI. 339 (1753). 1597. " In marish 

 and waterie places neere to the sea." — Ger. 21. "Near Yarmouth, 

 Mr, Woodward."— With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 378 (1787). 



Scheuchzeria palustris L. Sp. PI. 338 (1753). 1807. "Dis- 

 covered by the Rev. [James] Dalton in June, 1787, growing 

 abundantly in Lakeby Car, near Borough-bridge, Yorkshire." — 

 E. B. 1801. Sowerby's MS. note on the drawing gives the date of 

 finding as June, 1807. 



Potamogeton natans L. Sp. PL 126 (1753). 1597. "In 

 pooles, ponds," kc. — Ger. 675. [" Potimogeton — Pond Plantayne." 

 — Turn, Names, F v.] . 



P. polygonifolius Pourr, in Mem. Acad. Toul. iii. 325 (1788). 

 1829. Lindley, Syn. Brit. Flora, 250. "P. oUongus,'' with syn. 

 ^' pDli/gonifoliiu^." "Ditches near Horsfield (Sussex). Mr. D. 

 Turner."— Hook. Fl. Brit, ed, 1, 76 (1830). [? "P. natans, 

 var. 2. Boggy ground on Birmingham Heath." — With. Bot. Arr. 

 ed. 2, 172 (1787).] 



P, fluitans Roth, Tent. Flor. Germ. i. 72 (1788), 1885. 

 Ramsey, Hunts ; found by Mr. Alfred Fryer. — Bot. Exch. Club 

 Rep, 1884, 111 (1885), 



P. coloratum Hornem, ap. Fl. Dan. t. 1449 (1813). P.plnnta- 

 gineus Du Croz (1818). 1839. "Ditches at Ham ponds near 

 Sandwich, Kent, W. Wilson Saunders." — Ann, N, H. ii. 349. 

 First found [in Cambs] in 1827 by Rev. L. Jenyns (Blomfield). — 

 Bab. Fl. Cambs. 248. 



P. alpinus Balbis, Misc. Bot. 13 in Act. Turin. 329 (1804). 

 P. rufcscens Schrad, (1815). 1804. "Found in the river at Scole, 

 Norfolk, by Mr. Woodward and Mr. Turner," &c.— E. B. 1286 

 ("P. fluitans"), 



P, sparganifolius Ljestad, ex Fries, Nov. Fl, Suec. Mant. i. 9 

 (1832), 1856, " In the river at Maam, Galway. Mr. T. lurk." 

 —Bab, Man. ed. 4, 351. 



