FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 843 



Spiraea Ulmaria L. Sp. PI. 490 (1753). 1568. " Medewurte 



> . . groweth about water sydes," &c. — Turn. hi. 8. 



S. Filipendula L. Sp. PL 490 (1753). 1548. " Filipcmlula 

 groweth in great plentie beside Syon & Sliene in the iniddowes." 

 Turn. Names, E vij. 



Rubus Idaeus L. Sp. PI. 492 (1753). 1597. " I have found 



it among the bushes of a cawsey, neere unto a village called Wis- 

 terson, where I went to schoole, two miles from the Nantwitch in 

 Cheshire."— Ger. 1091. 



R. nessensis W. Hall in Trans. B. Soc. ] I'm. iii. 21 (1794). 

 Ii. subercctm Anderson (1813). 1794. " I found [it] in the High- 

 lands in 1787, on the banks of Lochness." — W. Hall, L c. 20. See 

 Journ. Bot. 1885, 372. 



R. fruticosus L. Sp. PI. 493 (1753). 1562. " Groweth 

 commonlye in hedges and with other busshes." — Turn. ii. 118. 



R. corylifolius Sm. Fl. Brit. ii. 542 (1800). 1800. Frequent 

 in hedges. — Smith, I.e. But see Bay Syn. iii. 467: " videntur 

 sane dine Bubi vulgaris species,' 1 &c. 



R. caesius L. Sp. PL 493 (1753). 1597. "In divers fieldes 

 in the Isle of Thanet, harde by a village called Birchiuton." — Ger. 

 1091. It is probably the second kind of bramble mentioned in 

 Turn. ii. 118. 



R. saxatilis L. Sp. PI. 494 (1753). 1670. " In the North 

 West part of Yorkshire."— Ray, Cat. 269. 



R. Cham^morus L. Sp. PI. 494 (1753). 1597. "Plentifully 

 upon Ingleborough hils," &c. — Ger. 1091. 



Until the publication of Smith's English Flora (1824), the above 

 were all the species of Rubi described in British Floras — Ii. fruti- 

 cosus thus standing as the representative of 53 species (418 — 470) 

 of L. Cat. I have attempted to trace the history of these 53 spe- 

 cies, but in several cases the result is not satisfactory, so I have 

 decided to let this genus stand as above. For further information 

 on the subject see vol. i. of E. B. Suppl. (1830), the early vols, of 

 the Phytologist (1845-8), Babington's papers in Ann. & Mag. N. H. 

 (1845, &c), and the Supplement to E. Bot. ed. iii. 



Dry as octopetala L. Sp. PL 501 (1753). 1650. " In the 

 mountains betwixt Gort and Galloway [Gal way] . Mr. Heaton." 

 How, Phyt. 120. 



Geum urbanum L. Sp. PL 501 (1753). 1548. "Groweth 

 communely about hedges." — Turn. Names, t> iij. 



G. intermedium Ehrh. Beitr. vi. 143 (1791). 1663. " Found 

 in the fields somewhere about the town" (Cambridge).— R. C. C. 



App. i. 4. 



G. rivale L. Sp. PL 501 (1753). 1633. "Found ... in 

 Wales by . . . Mr. Thomas Glynn."— Ger. em. 996. 



Fragaria vesca L. Sp. PL 494 (1753). 1548. " Every man 

 knoweth wel inough where strawberies growe." — Turn. Names, 



D lj. back. 



Potentilla Fragariastrum Ehrh. Herb. 146 (1789). 1633. 

 " Upon Blackheath, in Greenewich Park," &c— Ger. em. 998. 



P. verna L. Sp. PL 498 (1753). 1641. "In montosis."— 



