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PEUCEDANUM PALUSTRE IN LAKE LANCASHIRE. 



ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S., 



Croydon. 



Looking through Winch's Herbarium at the Linnean Society, 

 a few weeks ago, I found a specimen of the above species from 

 Withering' s herbarium, from the station given in the Botanist's 

 Guide, 301, 1805, in Lake Lancashire. Neither Mr. Watson nor 

 Mr. Baker, Lake Flora, 110, 1885, seem to have known of this 

 specimen. Mr. Martindale (Westmorland Note Book, Natural 

 History Record, 67, etc., 1888) does not notice the Westmorland 

 record of the Guide (between Ambleside and Kendal, Mr. Jackson), 

 although giving particulars of many old records. Mr. Petty 

 asks, 'Naturalist,' p. 198, 1896, 'Can it have been the case 

 here?' i.e., CEnanihe Lachenalii mistaken for it. The specimen 

 is certainly P. palustre Mcench, and so confirms the old record. 

 Mr. F. A. Lees in the Flora of West Yorkshire, 260 (1888), says 

 he saw it at Southport, Lancashire, in 1870. This would seem 

 to remove counties 59 and 69 from the square enclosures in 

 Top. Botany (i.e., as supposed errors). Of the other dubious 

 counties Hereford is disposed of in the Flora of Hereford, 151 

 (1889). '61. York s. east.' I know of no confirmation of this. 

 76 Renfrew and 83 Edinburgh, though never confirmed, and 

 treated as errors, are not impossible, as it is distributed all 

 through Sweden up to Norland, and in South and North 

 Norway, and Finland. Mr. Watson, Top. Bot., ed. 2, 201 \ 

 (1883), puts a query to Essex, but Mr. Ray knew the plant well 

 in Cambridgeshire. Beyond the records in Top. Botany, it was 

 found last year by Messrs. Hilton and Druce in Sussex. This 

 is a very likely county, as it formerly yielded the Senecib 

 pal ust ris L. (though not in the same place). In Rand's 

 herbarium at the British Museum there is a specimen of the 

 Senccio gathered in 1725 at 'Amberley,' by Dr. Manningham 

 (who was rector of Slinfold for thirty-nine years). At this date 

 Amberley Wild-Brooks must have been a deep morass. 



Mr. Druce has recorded the Peucedaniim as an alien in his 

 Flora of Berkshire, 249 (1897), also in Journal of Botany, 308 

 (1891). No doubt as enclosures and drainage increase it will 

 become rarer, but it still occurs in Somerset !, Norfolk !, 

 Suffolk !, Cambridge !, and, I suppose, Lincoln and York. It 

 may be extinct in Huntingdon, as the fens around Yaxley and 

 Stilton are now all drained. In the Broad district in Norfolk it 

 [901 September 2. 



