214 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



S. conica L. Sp. PI. 418 (1753). 1724. "A little to the 

 north of Sandown Castle (Kent), Mr. J. Sherard, in company with 

 Mr. Rand."— Ray, Syn. iii. 341. 



S. anglica L. Sp. PI. 416 (1758). 1634. «» Lychnis segetum 

 parva viscosa flore albo." — Johns. Merc. Bot. p. 49. " This Mr. 

 Dent, apothecary in Cambridge, found among corn near the Devils- 

 ditch in Cambridgeshire.'*— R. Cat. 202 (1670). 



S. acaulis L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 603 (1762). 1641. " Caryophyllus 



montanns minimus sive C. pumilio alpinus . . . Mosse Pinkes." — 



Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. p. 18. " On the steep and higher Rocks 



of Snowdon-Hill, in Carnarvonshire, almost everywhere ; observed 



by Mr. Lloyd, or another Welsh Gentleman."— Ray, Syn. i. 141 

 (1690). J J 



S. Otites Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 469 (1800). 1650. « Found on 

 Newma ket Heath, Mr. Sare."— How, Phyfc. 86, 2. 



S. nutans L. Sp. PL 417 (1753). 1670. " On the walls of 

 Nottingham Castle, found by T. Willisell."— Ray, Cat. 202. 



S. noetiflora L. Sp. PL 419 (1753,. 1690. " Found by Mr. 

 Dale among corn." — Ray, Syn. i. 141. " Between Newmarket and 

 Wood-ditton" (Cambs).— Ray, Syn. ii. 201. 



Lychnis alba Mill. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 1629. " Lychnis ail. 

 flo. albo."— Johns. Kent, p. 8. 



L. diurna Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 145 (1794). 1597. " Common 

 in many places.'— Ger. 385. 



L. Flos-cuculi L. Sp. PL 436 (1753). 1570. " In uliginosis 

 pratis Angliae."— Lob. Adv. 189. 



L. Viscaria L. Sp. PL 436 (1753). 1670. " Upon the Rocks 

 in Edinburgh Park, Tho. Willi sel."— Ray, Cat. 202. 



L. alpina L. Sp. PL 436 (1753). 1811. " On rocks near the 

 sumn.it of Clova in Angusshire. First observed by Mr. rG.l Don 

 in 1795."— Linn. Trans, x. 342. 



L - Githago Scop. FL Cam. ed. 2, 310 (1772). 1538. 

 "Githago ... est ilia herba procera, que in tritico flavescente 

 existit, inde corollas apud morpetenses meos pueri in die divi 

 baptistae texunt vulgus appellat Coccle aut pople."— Turn. Libellus. 



Holosteum umbellatum L. Sp. PL 88 (1753). 1775. "On 

 the city walls of Norwich. . . . First noticed by Mr. John Pitchford 

 in spring, 17C5."— Rose's Elements of Botany, p. 447. 



« , xr C i er f stium quaternellum Fenzl, Alsineen (1833). 1670. 



Holosteum minimum tetrapetalon," Ac. » In glareosiss sterili- 

 onbus frequens."— Ray, Cat. 168. 



C. tetrandum Curt. FL Lond. fasc. vi. t. 31 (1793). 1793. 



Discovered by Mr. [James] Dickson on the . . . shores of Inch- 

 Keith and Inch-Combe, in the Firth of Forth." - Linn. Trans, ii. 



pumilum 



1778. Found by 



<&&%$ ? k ?° n "° n *** banks near Croydon," Surrey. 



Curtis' Fl. Lond. 1. c. 



semidecandrum 



,hn„t'fnT nT™.' bp * tL 438 (1753 )- 1724. Frequent 

 about London.— Dill, in Ray, Syn. iii. 348, 2. 



viscosum 



1667. "Alsine Myosotis 



