226 FIEST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



superficiales subhexagonfe ssepe punctata. Sp. M. heimsphcerico 

 proxima. 



Hab. Tana (Kiroruma Flumen). 



Mariscus maritimus, sp. n. Glabra. Cnlmi fascicnlati, 4 dm. 

 longi, graciles, apice trigoni leves, basi vix incrassati. Folia 4, sub- 

 basalia, usque ad 3 dm. longa, 1-3 mm. lata, debilia flexuosa ; 

 vaginae bruneiB, striata-, tenuiter membranaceffi. Bracteos 4, usque 

 ad 15 cm. longiB, cum foliis consimiles, basi paullo dilatatfe. In- 

 florescentia in 1 caput compositum congesta, 15 mm. longa et lata, 

 fere pyramidata ; spicfe 5-6. Spiculae numerosae, dense stipatii3, 

 5 mm. longfe, ovato-oblongae, lucide castanea?, 3-nucigerae. Klia- 

 chilla infra glumani imam nuciferam secedens, alis ellipticis, albo- 

 scariosis. Glumae ovato-oblong;B, vix acuta\ multo-striatte vix 

 carinatfe. Antberas lineares, ecristatte. Stylus linearis, brevius- 

 culis ; rami 3, lineares, longi. Nux cum f parte glumj^ jpquilonga, 

 anguste oblonga, aequaliter trigona, lucide brunea ; celkiliB super- 

 ficiales hexagons, perobscurfe. Sp. M. halhocauliyox. attusangumece. 

 afiinis. 



Hab. Mambrui, in arenis maritimis. 



The types of the species here described are in the British 

 Museum Herbarium. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from p. 185.) 



Schoenus ferrugineus L. Sp. PI. 43 (1753). 1885. " Col- 

 lected beside Loch Tummel [Co. Perth] in July [1885] by Mr. 

 [James] Brebner." — F. Buchanan White in Journ. Bot. 1885, 219. 



S. nigricans L. Sp. PI. 43 (1753). 1660. " Hinton and 

 Teversham Moors" (Cambs.).— R. C. C. 82. 



Cladium jamaicense Crantz, Inst. i. 362 (1776). 1660. 

 " Hinton Moor" (Cambs.).— R. C. C. 43. 



Kobresia caricina Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 205 (1805). 1805. "The 

 honour of making this singular plant known is due to Mr. Dickson, 

 who gathered it in the county of Durham in 1799. The Rev. Mr. 

 Harriman had indeed found it in 1797." — E. B. 1410. 



Carex dioica L. Sp. PI. 972 (1753). 1690. "Frequently 

 found on the Bogs on the West side of Oxford." — Bobart in Ray 

 Syn. i. 235. 



C. Davalliana Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 266 (1800). 1800. 

 " Discovered in marshy ground in Mearns-shire, North Britain, by 

 Prof. James Beattie, jun., of Aberdeen." — Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. 



C. pulicaris L. Sp. PI. 972 (1753). 1666. " Gr. Cyperoides 

 pulicare. A mile east from Oxford at Hockley of the Hole." — 

 Merrett, 52. 



C. rupestris All. Fl. Ped. ii, 264 (1785). 1836. Discovered 



