﻿do growe by hedges and busshes both set and unset." — Turn. 

 Names, E ij. 



Urtica dioica L. Sp. PI. 984 (1753). 1562. " Our comon 

 nettel of Englande."— Turn. ii. 170. 



U. pilulifera L. Sp. PI. 983 (1753). 1640. " Hath beene 

 found naturally growing time out of minde, both at the towne of 

 Lidde by Romney, and in the streetes of the towne of Eonmey in 

 Kent, where it is recorded Julius Caesar landed with his souldiers, 

 and there abode for a certaino time, which it is likely was by them 

 called Romania & corruptly there-from Romeney or Romny, and for 

 the growing of it in that place, it is reported that the souldiers 

 brought some of the seede and sowed it there for their use, to rubbe 

 and chafe their limbes, when through extreame cold they should be 

 stiffs and benummed ; being told before they came from home, that 

 the climate of Brittaine was so extreame cold that it was not to be 

 endured without some friction or rubbing, to warme their bloods, and 

 to stirre up natural heat, from which time it is thought it hath con- 

 tinued there, rising yearely of its owne sowing." — Park. Theatr. ill. 



U. urens L. Sp. PI. 984 (1753). 1597. " Neere unto hedges, 

 bushes, and brambles, and olde wales." — Ger. 571. 



Parietaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 1052 (1753). 1548. "Grow- 

 eth on walles." — Turn. Names, D iiij, back. 



Myrica Gale L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1453 (1762). 1548. "A litle 

 shrub called Gal in englishe, whiche groweth in fennes and waterish 

 mores." Turn. Names, under "Myrtus." See also Herb. iii. 47. 



Betula alba L. Sp. PI. 982 (1753). 1551. "In Northumber- 

 land."— Turn, i. 34 (84). 



B. pubescens Ehrh. Beitr. vi. 98 (1791) (B. glutinosa Fries). 

 1842. Edinburgh Catalogue, 2nd ed. Described and distinguished 

 as a species in Bab. Man. ed. 1, p. 282 (1843). 



B. nana L. Sp. PI. 983 (1753). 1777. " In Breadalbane " 

 (Scotland), &o.~ Lightf. Fl. Scot. 575, with a figure. Discovered 

 by Sir James Nasmyth (E. B. 2326). 



Alnus glutinosa Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 54 (1792). 1548. " Groweth 

 sydes and in marishe middowes." — Turn. Names, A vij. 



M1753). 1597. "Plenti- 

 fully in Northamptonshire, also in Kent by Gravesend."— Ger. 1296. 



Oorylus Avellana L. Sp. PI. 998 (1768). 1551. " The hasell 

 is so well knowen that wee nede not any description of it." — Turn, 

 i. 68 (174). 



Quercus Robur L. Sp. PI. 996 (1753). 1562. " It was told 

 me by a learned man, a frende of myne, that in the year of our 

 lorde mdlvii that there was a great plentye of galles found upon 

 oke leves in the North countre of England and namely about 

 Hallyfax."— Turn. ii. 109. 



Oastanea sativa Mill. Diet. ed.__viii. n. 1 (1768). 1551. 



t abrode in 

 . 47 (114). 



Fagus sylvatica L. Sp. PI. 998 (1758). 1548. " Bech trees 

 we plentuously in many places of England." — Turn. Names, 



