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152 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



V. lutea Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1, 331 (1762). 1597. " Master 

 Thomas Hesketh . . . found it growing upon the hils in Lan- 

 cashire, neere unto a village called Latham," — Ger. 701. 



Polygala vulgaris L. Sp. PL 702 (1753). 1562. " I have 

 sene thys herbe oft in England." — Turn. ii. 96, hack. 



P. oxyptera Reichb. Iconographia, Cent. i. p. 25 (1823). 

 1836 P Prof. Babington (E. B. Supp. 2827) thinks this " is 

 probably the plant found by Mr. E. Forbes in the Isle of Man, and 

 described by him in the Trans. [Proc] Edin. Bot. Soc. pt. 1, 

 p. 35 [42] ." 1839. " Mr. Borrer has gathered [it] on the New- 

 haven cliffs and elsewhere in Sussex. . • . Gathered by myself at 

 Seacombe, Cheshire, in Sept. 1837."— E. B. Supp. 2827. 



P. serpyllacea Weihe in Flora, ix. 745 (1826). 1847. Bleak 

 Down, Isle of Wight, May, 1846. Dr. Bromfield.— Phytol. ii. 966. 



P. calcarea F. Schultz in Flora, 1837, 752. 1834- " Found 

 at Cuckstone, Cobham, and other parts of Kent, in the summer of 

 1831."— D. Don in E. B. Supp. 2764. 



P. amara L. Syst. ed. 10, 1154 (1759). (1) var. uligiiwsa Fr. 

 1853. Found by Messrs. Backhouse on Cronkley Fell, Yorkshire, 

 24th May, 1852.— Ann. N. H. 2nd S. xi. 272. (2) var. austriaca 

 Crantz. 1871. Discovered June 5th, 1871, on Wye Downs, Kent, 

 by Mr. J. F. Duthie.— Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 212. 



Prankenia lsevis L. Sp. PI. 331 (1753). 1633. " I found it 

 flouring the third day of September, 1621, on the ditch bankes at 

 Burseldon ferrey by the sea side in Hampshire. Io. Goodyer." 

 Ger. em. 567. 



. Dianthus Armeria L. Sp. PI. 410 (1753). 1634. "Collibus 



et nonnullis pascuis." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 21. See Journ. Bot. 

 June, 1892. 



D. deltoides L. Sp. PI. 411 (1753). 1597. " In our pastures 

 neere about London, and other places, but especially in the great 

 field next to Detford, by the path side as you go from Eedritfe to 

 Greenewich." — Ger. 476. See Journ. Bot. June, 1892. 



D. caesius Smith, E. B. 62 (1794). 1724. " Found ... on 

 Chidderroks in Somersetshire by Mr. Brewer." — Ray, Syn. iii. 336, 2. 



D. prolifer L. Sp. PI. 410 (1753). 1650. "In the grounds 



'iwixt Hampton Court and Tuddington" (Middx.).— How, Phyt. 

 .10, 12. 



Saponaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 408 (1753). 1597. "It 



sunnie places." — Ger. 360. 



running brooKS m 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



AMMOBIUS 



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says of this species, "Believed to occur in Scotland." Probably he 



years 



