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Occasionally II . anfractiforme has a certain look of //. argenteum 

 Fr., from which, however, it differs in many essential points. The 

 only other British form that I have seen, with which it is likely to 

 be confounded , is one that I have gathered with Mr. Hanbury on 

 Ben Laoigh, and with Messrs. Linton on one of the Glen Lochay 

 hills. This approaches it by the golden-yellow flowers and deeply 

 toothed or incised leaves, but is of a taller and more straggling 

 habit, has longer and more curved peduncles, longer, more 

 numerous, and floccose-bordered phyllaries, very dark styles, &c. ; 

 the leaves are also yellowish green, thinner, broader, with more 

 patent teeth, and they are more abruptly narrowed into the petiole, 



I have abstained from adding this to our rapidly growing list as 

 a new species, until it had been well tested by two or three seasons' 

 cultivation, both in my own and other gardens. This ordeal lias 

 been passed through very satisfactorily, no important variation 

 having occurred. If anything, the wild characters are accentuated 

 in a richer soil ; the flowers, as is natural, being more abundant, 

 and the peduncles greyer with floccose down, a change probably 

 due to the softer air and more sheltered situation. Messrs. Linton 

 have also found it to come u true'' from seeds sent by me. 



I entirely agree w r ith Mr. Beeby's recent remarks under H. 

 zetl andicum , and had placed all my gatherings at Mr. Hanbury's 

 disposal to deal with as he thought tit. However, he now writes to 

 me as follows : — M I am shortly going to write a further little paper 

 on Hieracia, in continuation of my notes which have from time to 

 time appeared in the Journal of Botany, embracing the work that 

 has been done during the last three years. The plant which we 

 have often spoken of as //. anfractiforme has, however (with the 

 exception of a single specimen sent me without a name by 

 Dr. Buchanan White), been so specially your own discovery, and I 

 am so entirely satisfied as to its meriting specific rank, that I shall 

 esteem it a favour if you will publish it in your own name, prior to 

 the publication of my paper." 





FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S, 



An attempt has been made in the following pages to extract 

 from printed botanical works published in Great Britain the earliest 

 notice of each distinct species of our native and naturalised flowering 

 plants, and thus to supply information seldom to be found in any 

 of the numerous floras of the country now available for reference. 



In such an undertaking some limits have to be observed ; and 

 first, it will probably be generally allowed that the earliest works 

 affording definite information on this subject are those of William 

 Turner, commencing with his Libellus de re herbaria novus, pub- 

 lished in 1538, With regard to some plants, especially trees, 



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