NOTES AND NEWS. 109 
Trichomanes, alas! has gone from Bell Bank. Mr. Clarke’s work does 
not embrace the ferns ; and one hardly dare set down on paper what 
one thinks about the origin of the present habitat in the western half 
of the West ees ‘e real ‘Killarney’ fern. It does grow 
therein, but—— day-tripper might go westward and (with 
a light portable aes gather and spn it; aye, and the true 
Maiden-Hair also if they but ‘knew the ro 
As for Lincolnshire, for so long fies hate only eight of 
these earliest records for all England come from within its marches. 
ese commencing with 1597 (Cochlearia officinalis and Atropa, 
both Gerardean), range through 1633 (Gentiana pneumonanthe and 
ii Gerardean, too) to 1690 (@. Lachenalit, Ray), and 1695 © 
(Obione pedunculata, Plukenet) to 1839 (Viola stagnina, Nicholson), 
1845, and last, but far from least important, 1881 ;—this being the 
date of the discovery of Sedinum Carvifolia by the Rev. W. 
Fowler, thereby confirming his connection in ‘ Apostolic succession” 
with those Fathers of Herbary, Gerarde and John Ray! 
The records for Northumberland begin with William Turner, 
whose ‘ Names of Herbes’ (1548), and in a lesser degree his Herball 
(1551-68), furnish most of the earliest notes for any county. Amongst 
them is the first mention of the Common Heather for Britain (1551), 
Meum Athamanticum, and the horseradish. ‘The first Scottish plant 
to be recorded was Zrienfalis by Bauhin in 1620. The Scotch Fir, 
Cesar notwithstanding, found its standard-bearer in John Parkinson, 
so late, comparatively, as 1640. The first Hibernian plant to be 
placed on the roll of fame was Arbutus Unedo, the Strawberry-tree 
(also in 1640 by the same compiler) which might thereby, not 
unfancifully be held to warrant the still prouder title of the Irish 
aurel. F. ARNOLD LEEs. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
As the 9th edition of the London soe ae has been noticed in these columns, — 
little ent be said except in praise of Mr. . A. Clarke’s ‘ First Records of 
ts, 
1892-1 West, Newman & Co., 3s. 6d.). Some at any rate of our readers will 
appreciate the eficits ofa writer, of sound knowledge, to a ae record the first 
appearance in print of our in such a manner as t understandable 
to botanical people. As ary, ‘a note on eee, ated an index complete 
he volume. In the a, ym order a Tooue Catalogue, edition 8, is followed, 
so we get no Buda and no Carex Hudsonii Ar. Bennett, but in place of the latter 
a name that may not be more agreeable to Mr. es—C. elata All. (1785)= 
C. stricta ee plt7g2) and Mr. Os rke proceeste: ¢ ‘For ea eg @ ny 
synonyms see B 1. Cam., 260; Ray, Syn. 
ed. ii., 412 (espa. > But  Potentilla —— Neck. “eos Silla fetal Salah 
at A osirks In loo! through the book we noted that in on area named 
€ page, Vorkehie heads the list of first seconis with 60. ,Westiorland o 
Nowhumberlan 17, Lancashire 14, Lincoln 8, Cumber land 7, Cheshire 4, 
Tham 3, and two each for Derby, Notits., ee Isle of Man. Again we must say,. 
April 1897. 
