JUNCUS ACUTUS L. IN NORTH = EAST 

 YORKSHIRE. 



P. FOX LEE, 

 Dett'sbury. 



With reference to my note in the ' Naturalist,' 1906, p. 92, on 

 the addiiion to the North Riding Flora of Eyythrcra pulchella 

 (or Centaurium puIchcUum Druce, Oxford List of Plants), I 

 lind now that a still better addition to the Flora of the County 

 as a \\ hole w as observed by me in July 1905, upon one of the 

 salt-marsh flats near East Coatham, Redcar, namely— /wwcms 

 acutus—i\iQ great sharp-fruited Sea Rush. This latter plant, 

 strongly growing in circular tufts, 3-ft. high, was quite the 

 particular feature of the area, having for its companion the 

 tiny rose-starred flowers of the Centaurium. At the time of 

 gathering I confused this J uncus acutus with the commoner 

 /. maritimiis, finely developed, and sent dried specimens of 

 the few I gathered with the Centaurium and other things from 

 the same district to Mr. J. G. Baker, the author of ' North 

 Yorkshire.' Somehow, my gathering of Junciis acutus in 

 Yorkshire* must have been shewn to Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell 

 by Mr. Baker, and he, apprehending its importance, made a 

 note of it for the ' Journal of Botany,' in which it appears, 

 (1906, p. 105). Only a few days ago my friend, Arnold Lees, 

 quartering the botanical highways and byways of print for 

 data on distribution for his Supplement to the West Yorkshire 

 Flora, drew my attention to the matter, and 1 have supplied 

 him with a specimen in confirmation of the name, and now 

 hasten to place on record in * The Naturalist ' the occurrence 

 of this very restricted British plant in our county of broad 

 acres. London Cat., Ed. 10, gives it a vice-county census of 16 ; 

 this for ' 62 ' being included, as also that for 11 S. Hants. As 

 an unquestioned native, Topogrl. Bot. Ed. 2 (1883) shews it to 

 grow from Devon East, through Sussex and E. Kent, up to 

 Norfolk West (Newbould) — the ' Wash ' saltings ; and north 

 up the Welsh coast from Somerset to Carnarvon (Ley, 1886) ; 

 Flint Shore, Westmorland (Lonsdale) flats and Kircudbright 

 shore being 'insufficiently vouched,' — in Watson's own non- 

 committal phrase. Druce's Oxford List gives it for fifteen 

 county areas only in England ; four in Ireland and Sarnia — 

 where along Vazon Bay it has been known over a century. Its 

 earliest British record was for near Harlech, Merioneth, so far 

 back as 1641 (How's ' Phytologia,' 63). 



Naturalist. 



