FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 23 



With. Bot. Art. A Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, 

 &c. By William Withering, M.D., F.K.S., Birmingham. Ed. i. 

 1776 ; ed. ii., with references to figures, by Jonathan Stokes, M.D., 

 1787-92 ; and ed. iii. 1796. 



Clematis Vitalba L. Sp. PI. 544 (1753). 1548. »■ Groweth 

 plentuously betwene Ware and Barckway in the hedges." — Turn. 

 Names, G. viij. back. 



Thalictrum alpinum L. Sp. PL 545(1753). 1690. "In 



Alpibus Arvoni® [Carnarvonshire] . • . D. Lloyd." — Bay Syn. 

 i. 62. 4. 



T. minus L. Sp. PI. 546 (1753). 1660. " About Newmarket," 

 Cainbs.— R. C. C. 162. 



T. majus Crantz (Stirp. Austr. fasc. ii. 80 (1763). 1796 ? 

 "Discovered by Mr. E. Robson about 2 miles from Darlington," 

 Durham. — With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, 502. I am unable to trace the 

 history of No. 4 in L. C. Is the above the same species ? 



T. flavum L. Sp. PI. 546 (1753). 1597. " Alongst the ditch 

 sides leading from Kentish streete unto Saint Thomas Watrings, 

 the place of execution, on the right hande" [Surrey] ; also " upon 

 the Thames bankes, leading from BlackeWall to Woolwich, neere 



London" [Kent.]— Ger. 1067. 



Anemone Pulsatilla L. Sp. PI. 539 (1753). 1551. " Groweth 

 . . . about Oxford in Englande as my frende Falconer tolde me." 



—Turn. i. 17 (42). 



A. nemorosa L. Sp. PI. 541 (1753). 1562. "In woddes 

 and shaddish places in April. " — Turn. ii. 114, back (with a good 

 figure). 



Adonis autumnalis L. Sp. PL ed. ii. 771 (1762). 1548. 

 " I have sene it in Englande but very rare." — Turn. Names, B i. 

 (under " Anthenus."). 



Myosurus minimus L. Sp. PL 284 (1753). 1597. M Groweth 



upon a barren ditch banke as you go from Londou to a village 

 called Hampsteed; in a field as you go from Edmonton, a village 

 neere Loudon, unto a house thereby called Pirns," &c. — Ger. 3-45. 



Ranunculus aquatilis L. (aggregate). 1562. " Swimmeth 

 above the water in poules for the most parte of Summer/ 1 — Turn, 

 ii. 114, back. 



R. circinatus Sibth. FL Oxon. 175 (1791). 1794. " Christ- 

 church meadows'* (Oxford). — Sibthorp, I. c. 



R. fluitans Lam. FL Fr. (1778). 1839. In Cainbs., Ac- 

 Bab, m Ann. N. H. iii. 229. First record by this name. 



R. pseudofluitans Newbould ex Baker in Thirsk Bot. Exch. 

 Club Eeport, 1864, p. 5. 1863. " R. peltatus f var. y pseiidv- 

 jiuitans . . . mav be a distinct subspecies, as the Rev. W. W. New- 

 bould inclines to'think."— Syme E. B. i. 20 (1863). 



R. trichophyllus Chaix in Vill. FL Daupk. i. 335 (1786). 1855. 

 " Plentiful in Cainbs., Norfolk, and Suffolk."— Bab. in Ann. N. H. 

 ser. 2, xvi. 390. 



R. Drouetii Schultz ex Godron, FL de Fr. i. 24 (1818). 1855. 

 In Cainbs., &c— Bab. in Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xvi. 393- " First lound 



