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' The Phytologist,' old series, vols, i— v. 8vo. London, 1842-54. 

 = PJiyt. O.S. New series, vols, i — vi. Svo. London, 1855-C3. = PJiyt. JST.S. 



' The Botanist's Guide through England and Wales,' (Turner and 

 Dillwyn.) 2 vols. Svo. London, 1801. = B.G, 



* Synopsis Stirpium Britannicarum,' (Ray.) Third Edition, 1724. 

 = a. Syn. Hi. 



Many valuable local Floras are also occasionally quoted, with other 

 botanical works ; and much assistance from my friend Alexander Irvine, 

 Esq., is thankfully acknowledged. 



Order I. — Ranunculace^. 



Thalictrum majus, • Jacq. This is one of the ill-defined species which 

 are fortunately expunged from our Flora. Babington (Mamoal, ed. 3. p. 4.) 

 gives as its habitat " Bushy hills in the south of Seotland and north of 

 England." " Localities were published for this plant in the provinces of 

 Channel and Thames, on the authority of Dr. Maton and Rev. H. Davies, 

 but there seems good reason to presume that T. flavum must have been 

 mistaken for the present species." Gyh. cc. 73. " At Baysdale, near Dar- 

 lington ; also on the margin of Ulswater, Cumberland. Mr. Robson." 

 English Flora, Hi. 42. 



Adonis flamynea, Jacq. This is recorded in Brewer's Flora of Surrey, 

 p. 313, on the authority of the late Joseph Woods, as being one of the 

 " Plants found on the Thames side, near Wandsworth and Battersea, 

 undoubtedly introduced to the locality." It seems most probable that the 

 plant occurred in the former of these places, which is the locality hereafter 

 so frequently referred to as the waste ground at Wandsworth steamboat 

 pier. 



A. cestivalis, L. " Cornfields on Salisbury Plain, near the road from 

 Ambresbury to Everley." Withering's Systematic Arrangement, ed. 4. Hi. 

 492. " I have specimens of this plant, sent me as indigenous from Dr. 

 Withering and Mr. Sowerby, which, especially the latter, aj^pear very 

 different from A. autamnalis'.'' Turner in B.G. ii. 652. Sir J. E. Smith, 

 however, says, " this has never been found in England ; for specimens sent 

 by my late worthy friend Dr. Withering, show his cestivalis to be but a 

 starved and paler autmnnalis. Eng. Fl. Hi. 44. 



Banunculm aljoestris, L. ''By little rills and among rocks on the moun- 

 tains of Clova, Angus-shire, seldom flowering." G. Don, April 9, 1809. 

 " No other botanist has ever detected an example of the species there." 

 Cyh. i, 83. Babington {Manual, ed. 2. p. 6.) after stating that the figure 



