36 82. TYl'IIACE^. 



Typha jonor, Sm. 



Area [3 * 10]. 



Incognit. This sjjecies was long retained in the Floras 

 of Britain, in consequence of Dillenius rej)orting that it 

 had been found on Hounslow Heath, Middlesex, by a Mr. 

 Dandridge. In the New Botanist's Guide, a second lo- 

 cality was added, through an inadvertence there suggested; 

 namely, in the mere, near Scarborough, Yorkshire. In 

 Hall's Flora of Liverpool, it is stated that a sjiecimen is 

 j)reserved in the Herbarium at the Botanic Garden of that 

 town, wliich was brought from a marl-pit, north of Little 

 Crosby, on the Lancashire coast, in 1801. In the more 

 recent Flora of Liverpool, published by Dr. Dickinson, 

 the Author says that he has been unable to find that any 

 other specimen of the plant had ever been gathered there. 

 But Dr. Dickinson does not inform us whether he had 

 himself seen the one specimen in the herbarium referred 

 to ; and I fear that Mr. Hall was not very competent to 

 name species in doubtful cases. More recently. Dr. 

 Bromfield announced (Phytol. iii. 1007) that he had actu- 

 ally seen a specimen, gathered in Kent, by the late Mr. 

 David Don ; and, as a sort of confirmation, be referred 

 to Smith's ' Catalogue of the Rarer Plants of South Kent,' 

 in which T. minor is re^Dorted to grow with T. latifolia, in 

 a dyke at West Ham. But in reference to that announce- 

 ment, Mr. T. B. Flower wrote to me in these terms : — 

 " This is an error, and ought to be corrected. Prof. Don 

 showed me the specimen wliich he had supj)osed to be T. 

 minor, but afterwards had altered his opinion, and believed 

 it a small form of T. angustifolia." 



