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Anglesey and Carnarvon, says it is extinct in both these counties. 
ut there seems no ground for doubting that M. sinuata is 
‘indigenous or aboriginal”’ in Wales. 
n England it may be regarded as probably extinct, although 
there seems no reason to suppose that it was not indigenous in 
Mr. Mansel Pleydell does not include it as a Dorset plant ; but in 
Smith’s Correspondence (i. 485) will be found a letter from the 
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(Engl. Bot. t. 1935) runs: ‘ Discovered by Mr. Turner and Mr. W. 
Borrer in 1806 on the cliffs to the east of Hastings, where this 
specimen was gathered May 27, 1808. It grows on such inac- 
cessible rocky ledges as to be obtainable only by a person let down 
from the summit with a rope.” The first record from the Isle of 
Wight is quoted by Mr. Townsend from Snooke’s Flora Vectiana 
(1823) :—‘‘ The cliffs from Compton to Freshwater Gate are 
Journan or Borany.—Vou. 88. (May, 1900.] . 
