74 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxvi. 



78. Peebles. Pentland Hills, source of the Medwin, 

 about 1000 feet. 11.9.1836.— Dr. A. Hunter. J. H. Balfour 

 sp., 19.9.1838. 



77. Lanark. Boorland Moss, Walston, Sept. 1850.— G. F. 

 Blackie. No altitude given, but the parish ranges from 660 

 to 1000 feet alt. 



69. Westmoreland. Neathheath Syke, alt. 1800 feet, Sept. 

 1840. — John Bell. Backhouse in Herbarium, York ! . 



66. Durham. Wet moor, Inishope, Weardale ; 2.8.1885. — 

 J. P. Soutter sp. 



65. York, N.W. Sedbergh. — J. Handley, "Yorkshire 

 Naturalist" (1903), p. 408. Cotherstone Fell, 1847.— D. 

 Oliver sp. The actual station is swamps at the junction of 

 the river Balder with the Black Beck. Discovered here by 

 J. Backhouse, 1810 ; sp. in York Herbarium. 



58. Cheshire. Knutsford Moor, where it was associated 

 with Andromeda, Melampyrum pratense, Car ex limosa, 

 curta, and stellulata; 1 also with Slum angustifolium, 

 Cicuta, Potamogeton polygonifolius, Carex ampullacea, 

 Lastrea spinulosa,, L. thelypteris, and Osmunda regalis. 



The date of its first record here (and for Britain) is 1724, 

 Dill, in Ray, " Syn.," 3rd ed., p. 355 ; but the plant had 

 been gathered some time between then and 1696, as in an 

 old volume of coloured impressions of Cheshire plants 2 the 

 locality is given, and the names are those of the 2nd ed. 

 of the " Synopsis." Specimen sent from here by Mr. Okell 

 of Chester, and figured in " Eng. Botany," t. 1009, 3 Aug. 

 1801. Extinct in 1842. The species did not become 

 extinct here altogether through natural causes, as the 

 following extract will show : — 



" Still exists on Knutsford Moor, but is almost destroyed 

 by the rapacity of some individuals who have dug it up for 

 sale in the most remorseless manner." — Dr. J. B. Wood, in 

 " Phytologist," i. (1842), p. 282. 



In Ireland in the middle and north-east (i.e. in six of Mr. 

 Praeger's divisions), but characterised as very rare. 



In Europe it is a species of Arctic Norway to 69° 29' 

 N. lat., Swedish, Finnish, and Russian Lapland, Iceland, 



1 Lord de Tablev, "Fl. Cheshire" (1899), p. 142. . 



2 Perry, " Phyt.,'" i. (1843), p. 700. 



3 This plate is not quoted in the 3rd ed., iv. (1865), t. 550. 



