26o Wroo/ : Xo/i's on ^'orkshit-c liotmiv in 17^7- 



From Dr. R. RiciiAKDStJX to S. Bkewkk. 



July 28, 1727. 

 [Extract. ]—' The last wceke the same person who broui^-ht 

 me Epimedium An<^uillari;e \Kpimcdiiim alpiniini\ showed me 

 a plant in Binj^-ley town which I never expected to be a 

 native of Enj^Iand ; 'tis common in the streets and upon the 

 dunghills ; it was out of flower when he showed it me, but 

 beini^ an old acquaintance I knew it at the first sig-ht, 'tis 

 Campanula penta^ona perfoliata, Mor. Hist. 2, 457. I am <;lad 

 3'ou think of visiting- Yorkshire.' 



From Dr. Richardson to S. Brewer. 



Aug. 10, 1727. 

 [Extract.] — 'Epimedium Anguiilariai was found by John 

 Emmott, a gardiner of Bingley, lately in a wood nigh that place. 

 I sent a servant to see it growing in its native place, and to 

 bring some roots of it along with him, which he has accordingly 

 don. The same Gardiner brought me a large branch of a 

 Bettula foliis platans, if it is not a rare kind, 'tis a very remark- 

 able variety. The same person also brought me a plant which 

 he gathered about Richmond in this county ; it was not in 

 flower ; it seems to be an Aster. 1 sent the Consul [Sherard] 

 a specimen of a Valeriana I found nigh Gigleswike. He 

 takes it to [be] Valeriana sepine rotundifolia inodora of Mr. 

 Ray. This was out of flower when I found it, but if the 

 aromatic smel of the root had not discovered it to be a Vale- 

 riana I had not known whither to have referred it. It thrives 

 very wel in my garden, the leaves round and undivided, as 

 large as a small Dock.' 



Notes of most of these plants were communicated by Richard- 

 son to Dillenius for the 3rd edition of Ray's ' Synopsis,' 

 published in 1724, and the records appear in Dr. Lees's ' West 

 Riding Elora.' But for several of the plants these letters 

 constitute the first record, ante-dating by many years the first 

 records given by Dr. Lees. The plants referred to as found at 

 Bingley are almost certain to have been introduced and planted 

 to deceive Dr. Richardson. 



Mr. II. 11. Coi-bi'tt informs us tliat his note in tin- 'Naturalist,' No. 594, 

 p. 224, rfcoiclini^ Silciic nuiiins lu-ar Doiirastor is an error. Tlu' ])lant lias 

 b('«'n named hy Mr. W. l-'o^^i^fitt, of Tliirsk, as Silcnc dicliotoina Klirlj., a 

 soiitii I-Cnro|3ean easiial. 



Naturalist, 



