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FIRST RECOKDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



S. nanus Sprong. Pugillus, i. 4 (1813) {S. iiarvulus Roem. & 

 Scliult. Syst. Veg. ii. 124 (1817). 1841. Edinburgh Cat. Drit. PI. 

 ed. 2. "Found in Hampshire."— Bab. in PhytoL i. 310(1842). 

 "Collected in. July, 1837, at Lymington, Hants, in the newly 

 excavated swimming bath." — G. E. Smith in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



S. fluitans L. Sp. PI. 48 (1753). 1688. " Ad nos transmisit 

 D. Dodsworth: Invenio etiam inter Gramina sicca D. Philippi 

 Bkippon hujus specimina, a nobis coUecta in Cambria prope Madern 

 & alibi, quamvis per oblivionem in Catalogo Plantarum Anglise 

 illud omisi."— Eay Hist. ii. 1310. 



S. cernuus Vahl, Enum. ii. 245 (180G). (.S'. Savii Seb. & Maur. 

 Fl. Rom. Prod. 22(1818). 1831. "Anglesea, July 8, 1828."— 

 W. Wilson in Bot. Miscell. ii. 134, as S. sctaceas ; S. Savii was, 

 however, intended (see E. B. SuppL 2782, where the plant is first 

 recorded under that name, and Wilson's specimens in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit.). " Juncus maritimum exile Plimostii " (Park. Tbeatr. 1270) 

 is probably tbe same species, which is abundant about Plymouth : 

 see Briggs, Fl. Plym. p. xxviii. 



S. setaceus L. Sp. PI. 49 (1753). 1634. " Juncellus omnium 

 minimus, Chamajschoenos. Dwarfe-rush." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 45. 



S. Holoschoenus L. Sp. PI. 49 (1753). 1688. " Nuper in 

 Auglia detexit in comitatu Somerseti D. Stepliens." — Ray Hist, 

 ii. 1303. 



S. lacustris L. Sp. PI. 48 (1753). 1597. " In standing pooles 

 and by rivers sides." — Ger. 31. " Harefield " (Middx.). — Black- 

 stone, Fasc. 4G (1787). 



S. Tabernsemontani Gmel. Fl. Bad. i. 101 (1805). 1696. 

 "In the Sea-ditches at Bricklesey and Mersey-Island. Mr. Dale." 

 Ray Syn. ii. 273. See Fl. Midd. 301. 



S. carinatus Sm. E. B. 1983 (1809). 1716. "Juncus aq. 

 major carinatus. Doody's furrowed Bull-rush. This Mr. Doody has 

 observed about Limehouse ; I have also found it in his Company 

 near the Thames, on this side Battersey Meadows." — Petiver, 

 Concordia Graminum no. 199. 



S. triqueter Linn. Mant. i. 29 (1767). 1666. " At the Horse- 

 ferry at Westminster. Hunc mihi primus ostendit Dr. Dale in- 

 siguis Botanicus."- — Merrett, 67. 



S. maritimus L. Sp. PI. 51 (1753). 1629. "Ad insulam 

 Sheppey . . . Cyperus rotundus iuodorus septentrionalium Lob." 

 — Johns. Kent, 5 ; cf. Johns. Merc. Bot. 32. " In tlie Isle of 

 Shepey it fills almost every ditch." — Curtis, Fl. Lond. iv. 4 

 (c. 1783). 



S. sylvaticus L. Sp. PI. 51 (1753). 1632. Hampstead Heath. 

 — Johns. Enum. (" Cyperus gramineus sive miliaceus Lob."). 



S. Caricis Retz.^Prod. 64 (1779). [Blijsmus coiiipressus Panz 

 (1821) ). 1688. " A D. Newton mihi primum ostensmu est a se 

 collectum in aquosis prope Orton Westmorlandije vicum necnon 

 circa Chislehurst. Exsiccatum vidi apud D. Plucknet, qui primus 

 illud observasse dicitur." — Ray Hist. ii. 1910. 



S. rufus Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 133 (1806). {Blijsmus rufus 

 Link (1821) ). 1777. " In the Isle of Mull."— Lightf. Fl. Scot. 



