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only as an introduced plant. I have only one locality for the Penin- 

 sula; namely, at its northern extremity, on the authority of the Flora 

 Bathoniensis, which questions the true nativity there. Again, some- 

 what unexpectedly, I find the name marked in a list of Isle of Wight 

 plants, which Dr. Bromfield kindly checked for me, before leaving 

 England ; and that being my sole authority for the second province, 

 I should have preferred to ascertain from Dr. B. (now abroad) whether 

 the mark was intentionally or inadvertently affixed to the name of 

 'nutans:' perhaps it ought to stand so; for Dr. Bromfield rarely is 

 inadvertent in his botanical doings. Next, we have the third province 

 to consider ; and here, on the cliffs of Kent, some species certainly 

 does grow ; and to which the various names of * nutans,' ' italica,' 

 ' patens,' and ' paradoxa,' have been applied, in a medley of confusion 

 which I ara not just now prepared to unravel. S. nutans is reported 

 also from Hertfordshire, by Messrs. Webb and Coleman, ' probably 

 introduced.' For the province of Ouse, a locality has been published 

 ' in the corn, between Harrington and Wakerley,' on authority of 

 Morton's History of Northamptonshire ; but this species is not a corn- 

 field plant, and some other was more likely the one seen there. No- 

 body appears to have confirmed the correctness of the Rev. W. Wood's 

 locality of ' Hawkestone,' in Shropshire, which is the only one in the 

 fifth province, as far as my notes go ; but as the S. nutans grows in 

 Dovedale, on the Derbyshire side of a narrow stream, it may also 

 grow on the Staffordshire side of the same stream, which will give the 

 species a ' local habitation ' just within the county limit of the Severn 

 province; though, in respect of physical geography, that part of Staf- 

 fordshire belongs of right to the Trent province. The provinces of 

 North Wales and Trent are not disputed. That of Yorkshire requires 

 corroboration ; the single locality, ' rocks about Knaresborough,' 

 resting on old and not very safe authority. ' Salisbury Crags,' by 

 Edinburgh, is the locality given with specimens, which are labelled 

 * S. italica,' from the Edinburgh Botanical Society ; but surely that 

 species must have been sown there, or it would have been earlier dis- 

 covered by some of the numerous good botanists with which that city 

 is always supplied. The counties of Fife, Forfar and Kincardine, 

 have been several times reported on ample authority. S. nutans 

 seems best to associate with the Anglo-Cambrian group of the Local 

 type. Its head-quarters are on the limestones of North Wales and 

 Derbyshire, with several outposts or outlying localities, of which the 

 south-east coast of the East Highlands appears to be the strongest. 

 As to Orkney, it stands only on the faith of Lowe's list, and cannot be 



