336 MR. A. BENNETT ON LIPARIS LOESELII AND TEUCRIUM SCORDIUM. 
This seems to me rather weak evidence on which to certainly 
admit it as a Lincolnshire species, though I have myself little doubt 
that it grew in the East and West Fens before they were drained. 
According to Mr. Clarke’s “ First Records of Brit. FI. Plants, 
ed. 2, 134, 1900,” it was first recorded by Ray in his Catalogus 
circa Cantabrigensis nascent. 106, 1660. In Europe it occurs in : 
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, 
Switzerland, Tyrol, Lombardy, Austria, Hungary, Russia mid. and 
south. North America, Canada ! United States ! From dates 
I have accumulated it seems to occur in abundance in cycles of 
about twenty years. 
The specimens I gathered at Ran worth are the largest I have 
seen of the species ; two or three of them measure 9| inches in 
height, and one from Chippenham in good fruit measures 9 inches. 
Syme in ‘English Botany,’ 3 ed. vol. ix., p. 134, says “stem 3 to 8 
inches high.” The majority of British specimens I have gathered 
and seen come between 3 and 6 inches in height ; and this is the 
range that Bentham gives in his 1858 Flora. 
Teucrium scordium, Linn. English names : Marsh Germander, 
Water Germander, Water Calamint, Scordium, 534, 1 and 2. 
Catalogus Ilortii. Joh. Gerardi, 1599. Garlicke Germander. In 
England this plant has become very rare in many counties, but is 
still fairly plentiful in Devon and in Ireland. 
It occurs in the following counties : — 
4. Devon North. — Lord Courteney’s Park; Braunton Burroughs 
(Burrows). Polehele Hist, of Devon. 1863 ! 1876 ! 1884! 
22. Berks. — Meadow called Nietford (St. Neot’s Meadow) 
Richard Slater, Gerarde Herbal, 535, 1597. Sp. in Herb. Brit. 
Museum ! Refound by Mr. Druce, Sept. 1900. 
23. Oxford. — Groweth near to Oxenforde on both sides of the 
water. Gerarde, 1597. 
Near Aristolte’s Well at Oxford, Merrett, 1666. Upon Botley 
Causeway .... nigh Oxney Hill, &c., Mr. Cole. 1657. Banks of 
the Isis at Highbridge ; Ejmsham Common Sibthorp. Godstow, 
very rare, sp. H, Boswell in Herb. Brit. Museum!; 1597, 1657, 1780. 
Mr. Druce has been unable to find it. FI. Oxford, 224, 1886. 
26. Suffolk West. — Lakenheath, very rare; Henslow and 
Skepper, FI. Suffolk, 68, 1860. Hind, FI. Suffolk, 278, 1889. 
Searched for in recent years unsuccessfully. 
