GENTIANA GERMANICA AS A BRITISH PLANT 443 
(d. 1718) with another specimen from the same locality also of 
Tilden’s collecting (Petiver Hort. Sice. Angl. iii. (= 
152) f. 61). From this contemporary evidence it seems clear that 
the plant of which Ray's description has been quoted is identical 
as 
in which it is definitely named and localized :—‘ Found first b 
r. Eales near Welling in Hartfordshire ; then r. Dale, in 
some barren lanes at Belecham ys ssex.” Some doubt, 
may indeed well be that a large state of this, as well as germanica, 
is covered by Ray’s phrase, and that it is on this account that in 
the third edition of the Synopsis (p. 275) although the description 
is retained, Dillenius has added a note: ‘‘Hadem cum priore.” 
This was also the view of Linnzus, who in Flora Anglica com- 
bines the two plants of the Synopsis. Of post-Linnean authors 
Willdenow was the first to separate them, establishing G. ger- 
manica in his Sp. Pl. i. 1346 (1797). 
When I was visiting or living at High Wycombe in 1865-9, I 
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the Ridge and the Saunderton Union, I noticed this only. 
plants at hand, unable to set down on paper any characters 
