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humilior rotunclo folio. Neer Ilampsteed Church, and iu Hide-park. 1 ' 

 — Merrett, 6. 



C. vulgatum L. Sp. PL ed. 2, G27 (17G2). 1634. " Alsiue 

 hirsuta, Myosotis." — Johns. Merc. Bot. p. 18. 



C. alpinum L. Sp. PL 438 (1753). 1690. " Juxta aquas ad 

 latera montis Snowdon copiose, ,, E. Lloyd. — Kay, Syn. i. 147. 



C. arcticum Lange. 1887. Found on Snowdon in Aug. 1880 

 by Mr. Augustin Ley.— Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 373. 



C. arvense L. Sp. PL 438 (1753). 1660. " On Newmarket 



Heath .... and almost ou every dry bank about Cambridge.' ' — 

 R. C. C, 19. 



C. trigynum VilL Fl. Dauph. iii. 645 (1789). 1794. Found 

 on Ben Nevis by James Dickson in 1792. — Linn. Trans, ii. 290. 



Stellaria aquatica Scop. Fl. Cam. 2, i. 310 (1772). 1597. 

 Ger. 487 (** the great Chickweede "), with figure. 



S. nemorum L. Sp. PL 421 (1753). 1724. "Found by 

 Dr. Richardson in Bingley Parish " (Yorks.). — Ray, Syn. iii. 347. 



S. media Cyr. Char. Comm. 36 (1784). 1538. M Herba ilia 

 est quam nostrates mulieres vocant Chykwedeaut Chykenwede." — 

 Turn. Libellus. "It groweth on olde houses and iu all places all 

 most in summer." — Turn. Names, A vij (1548). 



S. Holostea L. Sp. PL 422 (1753). 1562. " Stychewort 

 groweth ... in hedge sides and in woddes and shadowy places." 

 Turn. ii. 13. 



S. palustris Retz, Prod. ed. 2, 106 (1795). 1690. "D. 

 Stonestreet invenit in Insula Eliensi & D. Sherrard prope Ox- 

 oniam." — R. Syn. ed. 1, 245. 



S. graminea L. Sp. PL 422 (1753). 1597. "Upon bank 



sides and hedges, almost everywhere." — Ger. 43. 



S. uliginosa Murr. Prod. Gott. 55 (1770). 1597. "In the 

 brinks and borders of wels, fountaiues, and shallow springs." — 

 Ger. 490. 



Arenaria verna L. Mant. i. 72 (1767). 1677. "On the 



mountains about Settle in Yorkshire plentifully." — Ray, Cat. ii. 35. 



A. sulcata Schleich. Mag. Nat. Ges. (1816). Almie rubella 

 Wahl. 1828. "BenLawers . . . sent by the late Mr. J. Mackay 

 in 1796."— Sm. Engl. FL ii. 310. "I found the plant upon 

 Ben [Lawers] in Bredalbane and I never observed it any where 

 else. I believe it to be new to Briton. I first found it 1793 in 

 company with Mr. John Macay [Mackay] ." — G. Don MS. in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



A. uliginosa Schleich. Cent. Exsicc. i. 47. 1844. " Found 

 in 1844 by Mr. John Tatham, Jun., of Settle ; Messrs. James 

 Backhouse, Sen. and Jun., of Darlington ; Mr. Silvanus Thompson, 

 of York ; and Mr. G. S. Gibson, of Saffron Walden, on Widdy Bank 

 Fell" (Co. Durham).— E. B. Suppl. 2890. 



A. tenuifolia L. Sp. PL 424 (1753). 1660. " In the corn 

 fields on the borders of Triplow-heath " (Cambs).— R. C. C. 9. 



A. trinervia L. Sp. PL 423 (1753). 1597. Ger. 489 

 (" Middle Chickweede "), with figure. 



A. serpyllifolia L. Sp. PL 423 (1753). 1597. Ger. 487 ("fine 



Cheekewcede"), with figure. 



