﻿"long ago" by Mr. G. Don, Mr. J. Mackay, and others on highland 

 mountains in Scotland (E. B. 2559, M. rupicola), but first published 

 in Don's Herb. Brit. 205 (1804, as M. alpina). 



M. sylvatica Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. ed. 1, 61 (1791). 1666. 

 «' In Charlton and many other woods in Kent." — Merrett, 82. 



M. arvensis Willd. Prod. Fl. Berol. 77 (1787). 1597. 

 " Upon most drie gravely and barren ditch bankes." — Ger. 267. 

 " In the backe close of Sir John Tunstall his house a little beyond 

 Croydon."— Park. Theatr. 692 (1640). 



M. collina Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. 61 (1791). 1830. First 

 clearly distinguished from M. arvensis by Borrer in E. B. S. 2629; 

 but the M. arvensis figured E. B. 2558 (1813) is this species. 



M. versicolor Sm. E. B. 2558 (1813)1 1670. In Cambs. 

 —Bay. " M. scorpioides minor flosculis luteis."— Bay, Cat. 218. 



Lithospermum purpureo-cseruleum L. Sp. PI. 132 (1753). 

 1670. " On the top of a bushy hill near Denbigh-town .... 

 also in Somerset- shire, not far from Taunton." — Bay, Cat. 197. 



L. officinale L. Sp. PI. 132 (1753). 1548. " Groweth 

 plentuously aboute woddes and busshes." — Turn. Names, E j, back. 



L. arvense L. Sp. PI. 132 (1753). 1562. "In England 

 growyng among the corne." — Turner (Herb. ii. 41). Johns. Kent, 

 p. 2 ("Anchusa degener facie milii solis"). 



Echium vulgare L. Sp. PI. 139 (1753). 1551. "Groweth 

 in sandy e places .... called in some places of Englande Cattes 

 tayles, in other places wilde Buglosse."— Turn. i. fol. 16. 



Calystegia sepium B. Br. Prod. Nov. Holl. 483 (1810). 

 1548. " Convolvulus ... in english wythwynde or byndeweede 

 . . . wyndeth it selfe about herbes and busshes."— Turn. Names, 

 C iiij, back. 



C. Soldanella B. Br. Prod. Nov. Holl. 483 (1810). 1551. 



"I have not sene it in England savyng only besyde Porbeck 

 [Dorsetshire] . Howbeit, I thynke verely, that it is in other places, 

 in great plenty."— Turn. i. fol. 37. 



Convolvulus arvensis L. Sp. PI. 153 (1753). 1538. "Con- 

 volvulus .... The comon bynde aut The lytell wynde."— Turn. 

 Lib. " In most parts of England."— Ger. 714 (1597). 



Cuscuta europsea L. Sp. PI. 124 (1753). 1797. "Mr. 

 Sowerby last autumn received wild specimens of the real europaa 

 from Mr. Alexander Smith of Aberdeen, and others from the Be v. 

 Mr. Hemsted, which have at the same time verified the plant as a 

 native of Britain."— E. B. 378. But it is probably included in the 

 passage cited from Turner under the next species. 



C. Epithymum Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 140. 1548. "Doder 

 groweth aboute Flax, Tares, Nettels, Tyme, Savery, Hoppes, and 

 many other such lyke, it is much more plentuous in Germany then 

 it is in Englande."— Turn. Names, B viij, back. 



C. Trifolii Bab. in Phytol. i. 467 (1843). 1843. First noticed 

 in 1842 by Mr. G. S. Gibson near Thaxted, Essex.— Phytol. I. c. 



Solanum Dulcamara L. Sp. PI. 185 (1753). 1568. " Groweth 

 about ditches and watery places, and hedges."— Turn. iii. 2. 



S. nigrum L. Sp. PI. 186 (1753). 1597. " Commeth up in 



