108 REVIEW: FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PL 
Some corrections of Yorkshire ae beyond those noted i in 
Addenda (pp. 95, 96, 97), must be made. 
The first record for Audus aoa should bear date 1640, 
Yorkshire,’ Parkinson, p. 1015, anticipating the Ray Cat. notice 
30 years. 
Then, Ray’s record for Potentilla verna of 1670 is the first, b 
Johnson’s general one of 1541 ‘in montosis’ really had refere 
the P. alpestris (maculata) of Northumberland and Teesda 
hill districts of North England, where (as at Giggleswick with 1 
to Hudson’s record for verna) the true vera does not grow. 
visited Teesdale, there first noting Potentilla fruticosa likewise, 
1633, and the cinquefoil that grows so finely along with the s 
species is all a Zestris : he did not differentiate it from verna,h 
—or rather, evidence that he did, is lacking. 
Again, Merrett’s earliest record (1666) of Sedum anglicum 
Ingleborough (Pinax, p. 111) in the mud of the slate stones, is dro 
for the Yarmouth record of 1670. There cannot be much dt 
what Merrett meant by his ‘Sedum minimum flore mixto ex | 
et rubro’ when S. anglicum is a feature still, of the high S$ 
rocks, S. and E. from Lakeland to Morecambe Bay and the Lune ie 
Fells. Mr. Clarke, too, follows Dillenius’ mislead, I hold, in referrin 
the Merrettian record of 1666 for Saxifraga aizoides—‘ Sedu 
illecebra, fol. oblongis, floribus luteis maculosis’—to Sedum cil 
(which has not a yellow spotted flower), the first certain re 
which is Ray’s of 1677. That is a small point, hovena 
within a decade of years, and between two such shining lig 
early days it doesn’t matter to whom the award of merit is @ 
An omission among the Hawkweeds is the Hzeracium maculae 
record, of 1666 also, ‘ betwixt Ingleborough hill and Settle’ (Pin 
99), a puzzling form, one extreme passing well as Gibsont, the 0 
as vu/gatum with maculate leaves, a spotting in which several © 
Composites of the locality partake. 
Carex paradoxa was known at Askham Bogs, near 
Baines (who wrote in 1840), and gathered by Dr. Spruce in 1° 
but Dr. Moore’s in Bad. Man. may be the first record in | p 
I think not, although I have not the exact reference. PF 
were exhibited either at Edinburgh or London, and a report give 
some such journal as the Atheneum: I retail from memory 
Mr. Newbould told me, and I possess all his notes and MSS. € 
—they are too voluminous to go through at present. 
Before we leave Yorkshire let mé say that Geranium By 
still persists ‘ad ripam fluvii inter Bingley et Keighley 
— as in the days of Hudson and Re 
