414 ADDITIONAL. NOTES, ETC. 



1850, he informed me of another Hampshire locality, but 

 without saying whether he wrote on sight of a specimen, 

 or only on report ; the station being " in the low mea- 

 dows near Stoke Common, near Bishopstoke, collected by 

 Dr. Gamier, Dean of Winchester." In the British Flora, 

 edition 6, "South Wales" is indicated for this species; 

 but I know not on what testimony that province has been 

 stated to produce the plant, and hence I cannot rely upon 

 the record. The indications of habitats, as given ui the 

 British Flora, have gradually accumvilated into a medley 

 of errors, direct and indirect ; which must be the case in 

 every work that treats of localities, while the authors 

 have neither leisure time for keeping up their own know- 

 ledge on the particular department, nor inclination to 

 consult the works of others who do attempt to sift out 

 and correct the many errors that get into print. 



310. Lathyrus sylvestris, vol. i. p. 326. 



Provinces 9, 15, 16 may probably all three be con- 

 sidered as belonging to the true area of this plant. One 

 station is recorded in the Flora of Liverpool, " Sutton 

 Bridge, Frodsham, — John Harrison, 1850." The exist- 

 ence of this species in Forfarshire is confirmed by Mr. 

 Gardiner's Flora of the county. And Mr. J. T. Syme 

 informs me that it is " certainly wild in the island of 

 Mull, off the south coast, between Loch Spelve and Loch 

 Buy, growing on nearly perpendicular rocks, with Sedum 

 Rhodiola." Mr. Pascoe finds it in Cornwall. Under 

 those circumstances, several alterations will require to be 

 made ui the formula of distribution. The south limit will 

 be extended to Cornwall. The north limit will be traced 

 to Forfarshire and the Isle of MuU. The estimate of 

 provinces will rise to 15. The estimate of counties may 

 be given at 50 ; the species having been recorded from 

 44 counties, and some others being still among the 



