FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 345 



amonge bushes and hedges and in middowes and woddes in all 

 countries in great plentye." — Turn. i. 90 (219). 



A. odorata Mill. Diet. ed. viii. n. 3. 1853. Found by Prof. 

 Babington and Rev. W. W. Newbould, Sept. 9th, 1852, "on the 

 rocky shore of Lough Neagh, in the county of Antrim " ; and about 

 the same time by Mr. Jos. Woods in Devon and Cornwall. — Ann. 

 N. H. Ser. 2, xi. 363. 



Poterium Sanguisorba L. Sp. PI. 994 (1753). 1597. 

 " Wilde upon many barren heathes and pastures/' — Ger. 889. 



P. officinale Hook. 1548. " Groweth much about Syon and 

 Skene, and in many other places of Englad " (BiptnnsUa). — Turn. 

 Names, H j. back. 



Rosa spinosissima L. Sp. PI. 491 (1753). 1597. " Groweth 

 very plentifully in a fielde as you go from a village in Essex, called 

 Graies .... unto Horndon on the hill, insomuch that the fielde 

 is full fraughte therewith all over." — Ger. 1088. 



R. involuta Sm. Fl. Brit. hi. 1398 (1804). 1804. "In insulis 

 occidentalibus Scotias. D. Walker and D. J. Mackay." — Smith, L c. 



R. hibernica Sm. E. B. 2196 (1810). 1803. "I first dis- 

 covered it on the side of the road leading from Belfast to the village 

 of Hollywood." — John Templeton in Trans. Dublin Soc. hi. 163. 

 He first noticed it in 1797 : see Stewart & Corry, Fl. North-east of 

 Ireland, 1795, 



R. mollis Sm. E. B. 2459 (1812). 1804. " In the way from 

 Edinburgh to Kavelston wood." — Sm. Fl. Brit. ii. 539. Smith 

 (E. B. I. c.) quotes "Rosa sylvestris folio molliter hirsuto," &c, of 

 Dillenius (R. Syn. iii. 478, 1724) as a synonym of this species, but 

 the identity of the two seems doubtful. 



R. tomentosa Sm. Fl. Brit. ii. 539 (1800). 1696. "In 

 sepibus non infrequens a D. Dale observata." — R. Syn. ii. 296. 



R. rubiginosa L. Mant. ii. 564 (1771). 1597. "In the 

 borders of fieldes and woods in most parts of England." — Ger. 1088. 



R. mierantha Sm. E. B. 2490 (1812). 1812. " Mr. W. 

 Borrer has communicated to us the present Rose, under the above 

 name. He observes that it is common in hedges and thickets." 

 Smith, E. B. I. c. Borrer sent it to Smith in 1811. 



R. sepium Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. 2, 252 (1799). 1821. "Near 

 Bidford Grange (Warwickshire) . . . July, 1818." [W. T.] Bree. 

 Purton, Midi. Flora, iii. 41. In E. B. S. 2653, and elsewhere 

 wrongly quoted " Bridport." 



R. canina L. Sp. PI. 491 (1753). 1538. " Cynosbatos . . . 

 anglis a wylde heptre, or a brere toe.* 1 — Turn. Lib. 



R. stylosa Desr. Journ. de Bot. ii. 113 (1809). 1808. " Mr. 

 William Borrer . . . first distinguished this Rose in England . . . 

 [it] is common in Sussex." — E. B. 1895 (as li. collina). He sent 



it to Smith in 1807. 



R. arvensis Huds. i. 192 (1762). 1667. " In the fields near 

 Hackney in the way thence to London." — Merrett, 105. 



(To be continued.) 



