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THE GENUS MATHIOLA IN BRITAIN. 
By James Brirten, F.L.S. 
n the Botanical Magazine for March (t. 7703) Mr. eer oe 
site ** Both sien incana and M. sinuata are no 
growing wild in Britain; the rin er on cliffs in the Isle of Y Wisht, 
and the latter on the coasts of Devon, Cornwall, and Wales; but 
usion er two plants from our Flora; the following 
n (1683) sets aside the English localities which 
Gerard seers “to aa is and other plants described in the same 
great plenty of Leucojum es inum majus, ya. 291; but all in 
the circumference of about + of a mile, and = one plant of 
them in flower and that with good seed.” Ray, in 1686, writes 
‘‘Invenimus in litore arenoso insule Angleseig 1 in rer é regione 
Caernarvan oppidi in Wallia, atque etiam in extrema parte Cornubie, 
et alibi in litoribus arenosis’’ (Hist. Plant. i. 780): the Carnarvon 
locality he déscribes in Cat. Plant. Angl. 192 (1670) as ‘at Aber- 
aren in Carnarvanshire.”” In the herbariun of Adam Buddle (d. 
1715) there is a specimen ‘‘ from Mr. Stephens ont of Cornwall.” 
In 1773 Banks collected it in Flintshire at ‘* Breton Ferry, on @ 
little sandy bay through pia the road passes at low water half a 
mile to me westward’ (Herb. Mus. Brit.), M. sinuata, indeed, 
seems to have been a characteristic sli of the Welsh coast, for, 
besides the bodlities already mentioned, we have specimens from 
Barmouth (Merioneth), Swansea cee oi bob es Opes 
and Traeth Mawr (Hugh Davies s), a bay he mouth of t 
Madoe, on the border of Carnarvon and Meri : 
It is clear, however, that the plant has ca been dying out, 
and it would be worth while to ascertain whether it is still to be 
found. Dillwyn (Flora of Swansea, 35 (1848) ) says: ‘In 180 02 
was plentiful on the sandhills between Swansea and the Mumbles, 
but has now become rare: it grows also sparingly on the aed -side 
between the Eastern Pier and Crumlyn Burrows,’ A note by the 
Rev. D. Broughton in Phytol. iv. 880 (1853) states that at Bar- 
mouth, where it was “ formerly abundant,”” he ‘could only find 
three weak plants, not in flower.” Mr, Griffith, in his Flora of 
