486 ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 



857. Lithospermum piirpureo-ccerulewm, vol. ii. p. 277. 



Province 7 is at length confirmed to the real area of 

 this species ; Dr. Biclwell having sent specimens to the 

 Botanical Society of London, labelled from a " lime-stone 

 thicket near Denbigh." Perhaps this may intend the 

 original station, " on the top of a bushy hill north of 

 Denbigh," quoted from Eay, but at the same time denied 

 by Griffith, in Turner and Dillwyn's Botanist's Guide. 

 The mention of this plant in the New Botanist's Guide, 

 page 249, must have originated in some misreading of Mr. 

 Bowman's manuscript. The north limit may be carried 

 to Denbighshire. The provincial and comital estimates 

 will become 4 and 5. The range of latitude will be 50 — 

 54 ; and that of temperature 51 — 48. 



Xd. Symphytum asperrimum, vol. ii. p. 279. 



" Has been found, apparently wild, in a meadow on the 

 left bank of the river Tame, near Bredbury Wood, near 

 Hyde (Mr. J. Sidebotham) " : — Buxton's Bot. Guide to 

 Plants around Manchester. Probably another of Mr. 

 Sidebotham's worse than useless records in science, the 

 tendency of which would be to mislead distant botanists ; 

 not intentionally so, it may be, but only through the 

 reporter's ignorance of what is required in records for 

 scientific purposes. 



861. Borago officinalis, vol. ii. p. 280. 



Included in Mr. Buxton's book mentioned above, as " an 

 occasional visitant," which may warrant the addition of 

 province (9) to fill up the blank in the series of Nos. 



865. Asperngo procumhens, vol. ii. p. 282. 



Province 17 may be added to the area, on authority of 

 Mr. Borrer and Mr. Syme. The former botanist saw it 

 at Dornoch, Sutherland, in 1808 ; and the latter found it 

 at Portmahoc, on the Dornoch Firth, in 1842. The north 



