370 70. URTICACEiE. 



tended tracts of country. It remains local or again disap- 

 pears, although reported from several different and distant 

 counties ; namely, Cornwall, Hants, Kent, Surrey, Essex, 

 Suffolk, Stafford, Salop, Glamorgan, Anglesea, Lancaster, 

 Durham, and Northumberland. Some of these counties 

 may produce the U. Dodartii, and not U. pilulifera ; but, if 

 so, I am unable to distinguish them from the rest by the 

 published records. My specimens of U. pilulifera are from 

 Suffolk, collected by Mr. Fitt ; and I see that " coarsely 

 toothed" and "nearly entire" leaves occur occasionally on 

 the same single plant. Nor do I find that the seeds of the 

 coarsely toothed specimens fi-om Suffolk, not quite ripe, 

 are easily distinguishable fi-om those of the nearly entire 

 leaved plants from Kent and Essex. I suspect that U. pi- 

 lulifera and U. Dodartii will prove to be only forms of a 

 single species. 



981. Urtica Dodartii, Linn. 



Area (2 3 4). 



Alien. Only of late distinguished from U. pilulifera by 

 English botanists ; and a reference may be made to the 

 latter, supra, for the grounds on which they are conjectured 

 not to be really distinct species. My specimens of U. Do- 

 dartii are from Kent (Sir W. C. Trevelyan) and Essex 

 (Mr. E. G. Varenne, through the Botanical Society of 

 London). It is also reported from the Isle of Wight, Nor- 

 folk, and Cambridge ; — sown in the former by Dr. Brom- 

 field, as we are informed by himself, in the Phytologist i. 

 806 ; the locality havii^ been previously recorded for "U. 

 pilulifera " in that periodical. 



