﻿246 FIRST RECORDS OF BR] 



Arsmert whiche hath the blacke spotte in it . . . groweth most 

 commonlye in moyst places."— Turn. iii. 62. 



" " "In the 



Hedington Field above S. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital half a mile from Oxford. . . . A. D. Jacobo Bobarto 

 observata & descripta est." — Ray, Syn. ii. 58. 



P. maculatum Trimen & Dyer in Journ. Bot. 1871, 36. 1724. 

 "Passim circa Londinum." — Ray, Syn. iii. 145. 



; P. amphibram L. Sp. PI. 361 (1753). 1597. " In standing 

 waters . . . almost everywhere " ("Potamogeton angustifolium"). 

 —Ger. 675. 



P. Bistorta L. Sp. PI. 360 (1753). 1568. " Called in some 

 places of England Astrologia and in some places Pationes."— Turn, 

 hi. 12. » The great Bistort grows in moist and watery places."— 

 Ger. 323 (1597). 



P. viviparum L. Sp. PI. 360 (1753). 1597. " In Westmor- 

 land, at Crosby Eavenswaith, at the head of a parke belonging to 

 one Master Pickering."— Ger. 323. 



Oxyria digyna Hill, Hort. Kew. 158 (1769). 1640. "A 

 gentleman of Anglesey called Mr. Morris Lloid of Prislierworth 

 found it on a mountaine in Wales."— Park. Theatr. 745. 



Rumex conglomerates Murr. Prod. Gott. 52 (1770). 1629. 

 "Lapathum acutum vulgare." — Johns. Kent, 2. 



R. sanguineus L. Sp. PI. 334 (1753). 1640. "As a pot herb 

 planted in gardens, yet found wild also."— Park. Theatr. 1227. 



R. maritimus L. Sp. PI. 335 (1753). 1641. " Lapathum fol. 

 acuto, flore aureo, Bauh. ... In uliginosis."— Johns. Merc. Bot. 

 pars alt. p. 24. 



R. limosus Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. ii. 182 (1799). (R. palustre Sm.). 

 1700. " Lately found in Tothill fields by Mr. Isaac Rand."— 

 Pluk. Mant. 112. This is given as first British record in Fl. Midd. 

 239, but Babmgton (Fl. Cambs. p. 200) cites Ray's "Lapathum 

 aquaticum sive Hydrolapathum minus Ger. emac. [3891 Park. 

 [1225] " as this species. 



R. pulcher L. Sp. PI. 336 (1753). 1666. "Common in St. 

 George's Fields, and other places about London."— Merrett, 69. 



R. obtusifolius L. Sp. PI. 335 (1753). 1633. Figured and 

 described Ger. em. 888, 8, but probably referred to by Turner 

 (Herb. ii. 121). 



R. acutus L. Sp. PI. 335 (1753) (R. pratensis Mert. & Koch). 

 1834. " Marshes of the Adur, near Henfield, Sussex, where it was 

 first distinguished [by Mr. Borrer] in 1820." — E. B. Suppl. 2757. 



R. conspersus Hartm. Skand. Fl. i. 147 (1820). 1855. "A 

 hybrid not uncommon in Kinross-shire, particularly in the parish 

 of Orwell . . . seems to be R. conspersus Hartm."— Hooker & Ar- 

 nott's Brit. Fl. ed. vii. 368 (under R. aquaticus). 



R. crispus L. Sp. PI. 335 (1753). 1633. "A varietie [of 

 Lapathum acutum] with crisped or curled leaves."— Ger. em. 387. 



R. aquaticus L. Sp. PI. 336 (1753). 1830. " Moist places 



