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1718. Derham, Phil. Lett, 216. Lawson's letter to Ray in full. 

 1724. Ray, Syn., ed. iii., 320. 1744- Wilson, Syn., 74. 1762. 

 Hudson, Fl. Ang., ed. i., 97-8. 1763. Martyn, Plant. Cantab., 61. 

 1775* Jenkinson, Desc. Brit. PI., 45. Lawson repeated, and 

 i Mr. West 1 told me he found it last year in Low Furness.' I77& 

 Robson, S. Flora, 205. Lawson repeated, and in 1778. Hudson, 

 Fl. Ang., ed. ii., 112. 1787. Withering, ed. ii., 268, but ascribed to 

 'Ray. 9 1789, Camden, ed. Gough, 145. 1796. Withering, ed. iii., 

 285-6. Lawson repeated, and 'where I searched for it, which has 

 been frequently done by a person resident near that place, but 

 without success/ J. T. Woodward. 'Mr. W. Atkinson lately told 

 me [i.e. Withering] it is not to be found near Roosebeck, but that 

 the Salso/a kali is found there, and that it is apprehended this was 

 sent to Mr. Ray in a dried state by his sister, 2 who used to collect 

 plants for him. But Ray gives the plant on the authority of 

 Mr. Lawson, so that if there be a mistake, it probably originated 

 with the latter.' 1799. Dr. Hull, Brit. FL, 58-9. 'This plant is no 

 longer to be found at Roosebeck . . . See Withering/ 1800. 

 Smith, Fl. Brit, I., 293-4. 'Not found by any botanist of the 

 present day.' 1801. Withering, ed. iv., 280. As before ; not given 

 in later editions. 1805. Turner and Dillwyn, Bot. Guide, I., 367. 

 Lawson's locality and Woodward repeated, but for the former ■ Ray.' 

 1807. Miller, Gard. Diet, ed. Martyn, 3 vol. L, pt. 2. Found by Ray 

 on the sea coast of Lancashire. 1808. Hull, Flora, ed. ii., 78. As 

 before. 1812. Smith and Sowerby, Eng. Bot, vol. 34, 2413. 

 4 . . . the plant is one of those of which we have been obliged 

 to recur to an exotic specimen, for though there are numerous 

 authorities for its having been formerly found in various and remote 

 parts of the English sea-coast, nobody can meet with it now. Its 

 aspect and characters are too distinct to admit a possibility of any 

 other plant having been mistaken for this.' 1828. Smith, Eng. FL, 

 ed. ii., 37.8. Lawson repeated. 1830. Hooker, W. J., Brit FL, 

 ed. i., 134-5. 'Found many years ago in Lancashire . . . but 

 now apparently extinct. Now I fear quite lost as a native of 

 Britain; and repeated in 1855. Hooker, ed. iii., 139. 1835* 

 Watson, N. Bot. Guide, I., 301. 'Roosebeck, Low Furness. Ray 

 <B. G.). Not now found there.' 1836. Sowerby, Eng. Bot., ed. ii., 



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*T. West, author of Antiq. of Furness, b. 1703, d. 1779; educated at 

 St. Omer ; ordained priest, R. C. Sketch biography in Casson 7 s * Furness 

 Worthies,' 18S9, pp. 8-9. 



2 Who was she ? I have asked the question in * Notes and Queries,' 1894, and 

 have had no reply. Did she send the specimen from some other locality ? 



3 It should be noticed that in the Sth ed., 1768, the last in Miller's lifetime, 

 the species is given as continental only. 



April 1896. 



