MRS. geiffitiis'b alg/f. 51 



fielde betweene a small village called Charleton and Greenwich." 



Ger. 929. Gerard's figure represents F. qneata, but he probably 

 intended this species. " Discovered by Mr. Jacob Kayer in the 

 corn-fields about Woldham, near Rochester, in Sept. 1792." 

 E. B. 590. 



Mathiola sinuata Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. iv. 120 (1812). 

 1633. " Gathered by Mr. George Bowles upon the rocks at Abor- 

 dovye in Merionethshire." — Ger. em. 461. 



iv. 11!) (1812). 1808. 



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cliffs to the east of Hastings."— £. B. 1935. 



Cheiranthus Cheiri L. Sp. PL 661 (1753). 1548. "Hertes 

 ease or wal Gelefloure, it groweth upon the walles." — Turn. Names, 

 G viij. 



Nasturtium officinale Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. iv. 110 (1812). 

 1538. " Water cresses." — Turn. Libellus. "Groweth muche in 



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and water sydes." — -Turn. Names, G iij, back. 



Hort. Kew. iv. 110 (1812). 1633. 

 " I have sometimes found [this] in wet places." — Johnson, Ger. 



em. 247. 



N. palustre DC. Syst. ii. 191 (1821). 1713. " Moist ponds, 

 &c, London."— Pet. Herb. Brit. 49, 9. 



amphibium 



1597. 



" In ditches, standing waters and rivers in the chinct 



amongst the mortar of a stone wall that bordereth upon the Thames 

 by the Savoy in London." — Ger. 186. 



(To be continued.) 



MBS. GBIFFITHS'S ALG^i. 



In last year's volume (p. 191) we pointed out the error into 

 which Dr. Dyer (in the Annals of Botany) had fallen with regard to 

 the disposition of Mrs. Gray's Algae. In the last issue of the Annuls, 

 Messrs. Batters and Holmes show that Dr. Dyer was equally at 

 fault in his remarks on the whereabouts of Mrs. Griffiths's Sea- 

 weeds. In this matter, however, we ourselves were somewhat to 

 blame, for, on the faith of the Kew Herbarium Report for 1862, we 

 stated (Joum. Bot. 1889, 47) that Mrs. Griffiths' s plants were at 

 Kew. Mr. Carruthers in a letter to Mr. Batters, which was sent 

 to, but not published in, the Annals, gives the history of Mrs. 

 Griffiths's collections; and, as the matter is of some interest, he 

 has kindly allowed us to publish a copy of his letter in these pages : — 



" British Museum (Natural History), 



"12th June, 1891. 

 " My dear Mr. Batters, 



" In answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 

 5th inst., as to Mrs. Griffiths's collection of Marine Algae here, 



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