182 86. GRAMTNA. 



"Woodward, &c.). It has been also published as found in 

 Somerset (Dr. Southby, in N. B. G.), Dorset (Pulteney, 

 quoted in B. G. ; Salter, Cat), Kent (G. E. Smith, S. K. 

 Cat.), Suj0folk (Eng. Flora, &c.), and Nottingham (Deering, 

 quoted in Flo. Nott.). Of these six counties, it will be 

 seen that two are received without doubt, two are ques- 

 tioned as requiring verification, and two are quite rejected 

 untn verified. 



1306. Lagurus ovatus, Linn. 



Area [* * 3]. 



Samian. Incognit in England. Long known as a plant 

 of Guemse}'. I am not aware that it is anywhere in print 

 as an English plant ; but a specimen is in my herbarium, 

 "from Sewer's End, near Safeon "Walden, in Essex," 

 which was brought, along with many other specimens, to 

 the Linnean Society, for distribution to the members. 

 The person who brought those specimens, had also 

 brought thither several other highly suspicious plants, 

 equally asserted to have been found wild in the same 

 county. At some future day, perhaps, it may be weU for 

 botanists to have a hint on the value of some of that 

 person's specimens, doubtless also presei-ved in other her- 

 baria, in case they should hereafter be adduced as proofs 

 of the nativity or old establishment of the species in 

 England. Too much reliance has already been placed 

 upon a solitary specimen or two of doubtfully British 

 plants, preserved in old herbaria, without the true history 

 of the specimen being known. 



