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solitary plant was observed, some time since, growing in the centre of a 

 large wood near Bath, Somerset, by Miss Lonsdale ; but I am informed it 

 has been recently dug up." The only remaining locality which I have 

 found to be recorded for P. corallbvx, is that given in Baker's Supplement 

 to Ba'uus Flora of TorJcshire, published in 1854, where it is said (p. 40,) 

 to be " naturalised in Kildale Woods, Cleveland, W. Mudd. Probably on 

 the site of an old garden." 



Order I-. — Berberidace/e. 

 Epimedium alpinum, L. This is another of the plants which have 

 been recorded as native to this country, though perhaps on insufficient 

 grounds. The older authors, as Gerarde and Parkinson, were unacquainted 

 with it as a British plant, nor was it^known as such to the great Kay, the 

 true father of English botany. The first notice we have of its pretensions 

 to rank as an indigenous plant, is to be found in Blackstone's Specimen 

 Botanicum, published in 174G, where it is recorded (p. 19,) on the authority 

 of Dr. Kichardson, as growing ''in Bingley Woods, six miles from W. 

 Bierley, Yorkshire, not sparingly." In this locality it apparently held its 

 ground, and perhaps still remains, for Mr. Samuel Gibson, in Fhyt. i, 715, 

 N.S., states that " it is still to be found in the neighbourhood." " On the 19th 

 of June last, [1843]," he adds, '•' Mr. Ainley showed me the plant growing 

 on the left hand side of the river, going from Bingley towards Leeds. In 

 1821 and 1834 I got it on the other side of the river, and much farther 

 from the town." In Withering's Si/stematic arrangement, (ed. 4,) the 

 following Cumberland localities for the plant are given. " Mr. Eobson 

 has sent me a specimen which was gathered on Skiddav/, in July, 1795. 

 Also specimens from the Rev. T. Gisborne, whose plants were discovered 

 in 1787, in a very wild part of Cumberland called Carrock Fell," (ii, 197.) 

 Cumberland, indeed, appears to have been the head-quarters of the plant, 

 for we find that it was reported " on Saddleback, near Threlkeld," by Mr. 

 Hutton ; and authenticated by Mr. Rudge, who " had received a specimen 

 from a lady, who gathered it herself in the above habitat," (B. G., i. 146.) 

 Mr. Borrer also recorded it in Phjt. ii, 3, O.S., from " a wood by the river, 

 half-a-mile from Santon Bridge, some three miles from Nether Wasdale, 

 Cumberland," but considered it to have been there introduced ; and a 

 friend, in whose herbarium is a specimen of this plant, informs me that it 

 is stated to have been found on the Screes, a mountain on the side of 

 Wast-water, also in Cumberland. In the Supplement to the Flora of 

 Yorkshire, (p. 70,) it is said to be " naturalised in Kildale Woods* 



