274 PIBST RECOBDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



when the flowers are not fully expanded. The flowers themselves 

 appear to correspond in all particulars to the printed descriptions. 

 Whether the differences above detailed are of any importance, 

 I leave it to critical botanists to say. 



The finding of 8. Romanzojjiana in the North of Ireland, while 

 of interest to continental as well as British botanists, is of especial 

 importance to local observers, for I see no reason why further 

 search should not lead to its discovery at other stations, perhaps 

 the most likely ground being the extensive bogs that fringe the 

 southern and south-western shores of Lough Neagh, and the 

 marshes on the banks of the Upper Bann. The fact of its habitat 

 being on a worked- out bog shows that, although it may have 

 flourished in its present station for many years, its original home 

 was probably elsewhere in the neighbourhood. 



[The identity of Lindley's S. gemmipara with S. Romanzoffiana 

 of Chamisso (Linnaa, iii. 32 (1828), which was at one time disputed, 

 was accepted by Prof. H. G. Reichenbach and Asa Gray (see 

 Report of Botanical Congress held in London in 1886, p. 176), and 

 may therefore be considered as established. The spelling of the 

 latter name is that of the founder of the species. The Rev. T. 



of 



known 



. . 



In 



1873 I discovered [it] in a new station, east of Dunmanway, about 

 thirty plants in a damp glen. Mr. C. Longfield the next year 

 found it in the neighbourhood of Desert." — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



FIKST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S 



(Continued from p. 216.) 



arvensis 



.. L. Sp. PL 440 (1758). 1570. « Sagime 



bpergula, sive Spurry Belgarum et Anglorum."— Lob. Adv. 857. 

 Near Rochester.— Johns. Kent, p. 2 (1629). 



onum rubrum 



gula flore rubro." — Johns. Kent, p. 28. 



L. marinum Fries, PI. Hall. 76 (1818). 1629. " Spargula 

 marina Daleschamp."— Johns. Kent, p. 4. I am unable at present 

 to give information as to the records of the species into which this 

 is now divided. 



u n P ° ly ? arpon tetra P n yUum L. Sp. PL ii. 181 (1 

 "Circa Lymston prope Exeter, in Devonia, et in 

 landica."— Huds. ii. 60. 



Montia fontana L. Sp. PL 87 (1753). 1663. « About Gam- 



hngay (Cambs).— R. C. C. App. i. 3. 



Elatine hexandra DC. Ic. PL Rar. L 14, t. 43 (1808). 1801. 

 The Revd. Mr. [E.l Williams found it, flowering in August. 



Insula 



1778. 



