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"Fl." for " Flora" (the journal so called), '' En. PI." for " Enume- 

 ratio Plantarum" may be taken as examples of unsatisfactory 

 abbreviations: Mr. Jackson rightly gives these as "Herb. Brit.," 

 "Flora," and "Enum. PI." Again, there should be some different 

 way of citing a complete work and a paper in a magazine : Mr. 

 Druce cites " Tausch, Fl." and "Planch., Ann. Sc. Nat." where 

 Mr. Jackson quotes "Tausch, in Flora" and " Planchon, in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat." There should be one mode of citation, whereas on this 

 one page Mr. Druce indulges in almost infinite variety : sometimes 

 the author's name alone is quoted ; sometimes the title of the book 

 is added, with or without the date, volume, and page. Occasionally 

 the matter rests on Mr. Druce's ipse dixit — ^^ Clinjmntlieinuvi Par- 

 thenium, Bernh., is earlier than Persoon," for example. 



I do not propose to pursue further my examination of Mr. 

 Druce's last contribution to the confusion. of nomenclature, but 

 the single page from which I have cited these examples contains 

 material for further criticism. In the interests of botanical nomen- 

 clature in general and of British botanists in particular, I would 

 implore Mr. Druce to refrain from continuing his present course of 

 burdening our literature with untenable names. 



James Britten. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from p. 228.) 



Carex rigida Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 193 (1792). 1792. 

 "In summo vertice montis Snowdon, Mr. Hudson. In alpicis 

 Scoticis, Mr. Dickson." — Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. But it had been 

 found by Sir J. E. Smith, in 1782, on Ben Lomond (see E. B. 2047). 



C. aquatilis Wahlenb. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1G5 

 (1803). 1832. " Common on the Clova range of mountains," Scot- 

 land ; found by W. J. Hooker, W. S. Burchell, and R. K. Greville 

 [about 1824] .— E. B. S. 2758. 



C. kattegatensis Fries, Ind. Sem. Hort. Upsal. (1857). C. 

 salina Wahlenb. /i. katte(/atensis Lond. Cat. ed. 8. 1885. " Caith- 

 ness, August, 1883. J. Grant."— Journ. Bot. 1885, 50, 290. 



C. Goodenowii J. Gay in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2nd ser. xi. 191 

 (1839). C. viilffaris Fries (1842). 1696. " Gramen cyperoides, 

 foliis caryophylleis, spicis erectis sessilibus e seminibus confertis 

 compositis." — Ray Syn. ii. 264, 4. " Gramen caryophylleum, an- 

 gustissimis foliis, spicis sessilibus brevioribus erectis non compactis, 

 Nobis . . . Hoc primo a charissimo Fratre Tillemano ostensum est, 

 dein variis in locis observatum." — Morisou, Hist. Ox. in. 243 (1699). 

 "Peat Bogs on Bullingdon Green."— Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 31 (1794). 



C. flacca Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. Appendix, no. 669 (1771). 

 C. (jlauca Scop. (1772). 1688. " Gramen cyperoides fol. caryoph. 



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