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Praxinus excelsior L. Sp. PI. 1057 (1753). 1548. " Asahes 

 growe in euery countrey." — Turn. Names, D ij, back. 



Ligustrum vulgare L. Sp. PL 7 (1753). 1562. " Groweth 

 very plentuously in Cambrich shyre in the hedges."— Turn. ii. 38. 



Vinca minor L. Sp. PI. 209 (1753). 1551. " Groweth . . . 

 wylde ... in the west cuntre."— Turn. i. 59. 



Mierocala filiformis Hoffm. & Link, Fl. Portugaise, i. 359 

 (1809). 16 70. "Versus extrema Cornubias in solo putrido & 

 lacustri provenit."— Ray, Cat. 63. 



Blaekstonia perfoliata Huds. i. 146 (1762). 1570. " Anglise 

 locis . . . collibus urbi Bristoise eminentibus." — Lob. Adv. 173. 



Erythrsea Centaurmm Pers. Syn. i. 283 (1805). 1538. 

 " Gentaurii duo sunt genera minus . . . angli vocant Centory." — 

 Turn. Lib. " In great plentie throughout England, in most 

 pastures and grassie fieldes." — Ger. 437. 



E. latifolia Sm. Engl. Fl. i. 321 (1824). 1804. "In arenosis 

 maritimis prope Liverpool cum vulgari . . . invenerunt D. Bostock 

 M.D. et D. Shepherd, Hort. Botanici Liverpoolensis curator in- 

 defessus."— Smith, Fl. Brit. iii. 1393. 



E. linarifolia Pers. Syn. i. 283 (1805). 1805. "Mr. Winch 

 finds it abundantly near Newcastle, and Mr. Brodie . . . equally 

 copiously near Brodie House in Elgin shire." — Dawson Turner in 

 Bot. Guide, 469. There are specimens in Herb. Mus. Brit, collected 

 on Holy Island by W. McRitchie and J. Shepherd in 1794. 



E. pulchella Fries, Nov. ed. 2, 74 (1828). 1796. "First 

 found in England by my friend James Watt Esq. on the north 

 coast of Cornwall, on the downs at Port Owen, near the sea." — 

 With. Arr. ed. 3, 255. 



E. capitata Willd. ex Cham. Adnot. ad Fl. Berol. (1815), 

 var. sphasrocephala Townsend in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 403 (1881). 

 1879. Freshwater Downs, Isle of Wight.— F. Townsend in Journ. 

 Bot. 1879, 327. See also his Fl. of Hampshire, 213, and Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xviii. 398. 



Gentiana Pneumonanthe L. Sp. PI. 228 (1753). 1633. 

 " On a wet moorish ground in Lincolnshire, 2 or 3 miles on this 

 side Caster [Caistor] , and as I remember, the place is called 

 Nefcleton Moore." — Johnson, Ger. em. 438. 



G. verna L. Sp. PI. 228 (1753). 1650. " In the Mountaines 

 betwixt Gort and Galloway [Galway] , abundantly. Mr. Heaton." 

 —How, Phyt. 46. << Gathered in April 1797 in Teesdale Forest 

 Durham by Mr. John Binks and sent us by the Rev. Mr. Harriman, 

 the first botanist who has ascertained it in England." — E. B. 493 

 (1798). 



G. nivalis L. Sp. PL 229 (1753). 1794. Ben Lawers.— James 

 Dickson in Linn. Trans, ii. 290. 



G. Amarella L. Sp. PL 230 (1753). 1568. " It groweth in 

 England both in Dorsetshyre upon the playne of Salisberrye and 

 also in Yorkeshyre in bare places." — Turn. iii. 25. 



G. germanica Willd. Sp. PL i. 1346. 1841. " Some years 

 ago Mr. W. Pamplin observed a Gentian with large flowers in the 

 neighbourhood of Tring, in Hertfordshire." The Rev. W. H. Cole- 



