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Skipwith Common i 4 Yorkshire* points to the arte almost 
to the certainty, of its being a native British plant. In the 
original description fr Boissier (Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. ii. 1, 82), 
and in Willkomm’s Deser. Plant. Nov. Crit. Hisp. i. 114, t. 734 
and Prodr. Flor. Higp. iii. 603, the only locality given is “ near 
Madrid,” where it was found by Reuter in 1841. No other South 
European locality seems to be known, and in a letter to one of us 
Mr. F. N. Williams states :—‘‘ I have every reason to believe that 
this original and ne mege in fe W. Europe marks the plant as 
an alien, and that it is truly native further north, having been 
probably ‘suibed over as not quite typical S. apetala. I ot 
xa so many specimens of S. Reuwtert fro 
the North of England, ee from inland localities, as to prota the 
idea that it has been imported from Spain. I am quite prepared 
to reverse the early view of the habitat of this plant, and now 
hold that it is a casual or alien in its — and only station 
‘near Ma , and a native of more northern countries. r. 
Williams further suggests the nlikelihood of S. Reuteri having 
reached Yorkshire oe either Spain or over the Pennine Hills 
from Lancashire. urther strengthening this view it is inte- 
resting to note that the Lancashire plant differs in certain respects 
from that of Yorkshire. There is no specimen in Herb. Kew, either 
from Spain or anywhere else; but there is an example of the var. 
ss dinicelonie., mentioned by Willkomm (from ta which Mr. 
aa: ee after careful o S. maritima. 
cond recorded en station for 3. “Renter and 
the first for Britain, appears to be ~ a Capt. J. A. H. Steuart— 
“‘on the railway platform, Great Malvern, Worcester, August 8th 
1892” (Bot. Exch, Club Rep. i 1892 (1893), p. 358). In a note 
in the same Report Mr. Druce refers to similar specimens collected 
by himself in Northamptonshire or their edition of Babington’s 
Manual, Messrs. Groves, who place it as a variety of S. apetala, 
extend its distributi on to pee and Pembrokeshire 
these must be added the following stations nares examples in Herb. 
Wheldon :—Redear, N. Yorks, re; 1868, J. G. Baker; Birken- 
head, Cheshire, Fily, 1902, J. A. Wheldon (vide Bot. Exch. Club 
Rep. 1902, p. 38); Walton, near ‘ Liverpo ol, 8. Lancs, 1906; near 
Preston Docks, 1906 (Fl. W. Lanes) ; and near Morecambe, W. 
Lanes, , J. A. Wheldon. e specimens from all the above 
localities, except three which we have not seen, are more or less 
glandular-setose, some exceedingly so. In this respect they agree 
with Boissier’s specimens, which are described as being “ parce 
aero: uberula.” 
e plants recently diseovered in Yorkshire (Skipwith Com- 
mon, W. Ingham), as also similar plants from Strensall Common, 
J. A. Wheldon, are entirely eglandular. It would seem therefore 
that sg ry two forms of this species, oe te to such similar 
* See Journ. Bot. 1907, 413, where ‘* Portuguese”’ should read “ Spanish.” 
