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only in the position to be assigned to S. purpurea in the specific 

 order, and in the retention of three forms of the species and two of 

 the hybrid with vhninalis in the Addendum List. Tlie triple hybrid, 

 S. sesquitertia F. B. White, appears in cultivation to justify the 

 origin assigned to it ; as also does S. secerneta [purpurea x phijlici- 

 folia). The question, however, is liable to be raised again with 

 regard to the latter, whether S. Croweana Sm. is not the earlier 

 name ; since connation of filaments was a distinguishing feature of 

 this variety of *S'. phi/licifolia, and connation of filaments is one of 

 the main evidences of the presence of -S. purpurea in composition.* 

 There is, however, some confusion in the specimens to which the 

 name *S'. Croiveana has been given, and some suspicion of " mon- 

 strosity" in some of the specimens that clearly have connate 

 filaments [Jouni. Linn. Soe. xxvii. 898, 399), and on these grounds 

 Dr. White thought it desirable to impose a fresh name. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from p. 365.) 



Arrhenatherum avenaceum Beauv. Agrost. 55 (1812). 1597. 

 " In the fields next to S. James Wall as ye go to Chelsey." — Ger. 22. 



Fibichia umbellata Koel. Gram. Gall. & Germ. 309 (1802). 

 Cynodon Dactylun Pers. (1805). 1688. "Found by Mr. Newton 

 . . . between Pensans and Marketjew in Cornwall." — Ray Fascic. 

 Stirp. Brit. 



Sieglingia decumbens Bernh. Erf. 44 (1800). Triodia Br. 

 (1810). 1670. "Gramen avenaceum minus procumbens paniculis 

 non aristatis." — Ray Cat. 141. " Harefield Common" (Middx.). — 

 Blackst. Fasc. 34 (1737). 



Phragmites communis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134 (1820). 1551. 

 " Groweth muche in England." — Turn. i. 64 (25). 



Sesleria cserulea Arduin. Animadv. Bot. Spec. alt. 18 (1763). 

 1670. "Gramen spicatum montanum asperum e rupium fisauris 

 in monte Ingleborough exit." — Ray Cat. 155. "Ab amico optimo 

 D. Fitz Roberts accepi, qui alicubi in Cumberlandia collegit." — 

 Ray Syn. ii. 325 (1696). 



Cynosurus cristatus L. Sp. PI. 72 (1753). 1632. " Gramen 

 cristatum, Bauh." — Johns. Kent, 15. "In most medowes about 

 Mid-summer."— Ger. em. 29** (1633). 



Koeleria cristata Pers. Syn. i. 97 (1805). 1688. " Observatur 

 nobisque communicata D. Dale in montosis et campestribus sed 



* See Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 451, where Dr. White remarks : — " As belonging 

 to Salix sordida I put all plants which, however like cinerea they may be, have 

 the filaments of the stamens more or less united to each other .... one of the 

 best characters of hybridization with S. purpurea is the presence of connate 

 stamens." 



