PEUCEDANUM PALUSTRE AND LATHYRUS PALUSTRIS IN BRITAIN. 4G7 
nr. 
DISTRIBUTION OF PEUGEDANUM PALUSTRE AND 
LATHYRUS PALUSTRIS IN BRITAIN. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Rea/ 1 28th October , 1902. 
In the ‘Norfolk and Norwich Transactions,’ vol. vi. p. 457 (1899), 
and again in vol. vii. p. 333 (1902), I submitted to the Society 
some Notes on rare East Anglian Plants; and following these up 
I here give the distribution so far as known of the above two species. 
I do so as a contribution to what I trust may some day appear, 
a Historical Record of the British Flora, tracing the species from 
their first records to the then time, with all their varying nomen- 
clature, &c., under which they have appeared. It may seem 
needless to record all their localities, but if the rate at which some 
of our common species even are disappearing, it will not be so. 
Around this town (Croydon) Primroses are now rare, yet forty 
years ago thousands might have been gathered, and not been missed. 
Peucedanum palustre. Moencli. Methodus pi., Marburg, 82. 
1794. 
Tiiysselinum palustre (Tourn). Gray, Nat. Arrang. Brit. Plants, 
518, 1821. 
Selinum palustre. Linn. Sp. plant, ed. 1, p. 244, 1753. 
In Ledebour’s Flora Rossica, vol. ii. p. 310, 1844; 15 synonyms 
are given of this plant. 
English names : — 
Marsh Selinum. Huds. FI. Ang., ed. 3, p. 115, 1798. 
Marsh Milky Parsley. Relhan. FI. Cantab, ed. 3, p. 115, 1820. 
Marsh Milkweed. Withering Arrang., ed. 7, p. 2, 372, 1830. 
Marsh IIoo’s Fennell. Hooker. Brit. FI., ed. 1, p. 118, 1830. 
Milk Parsley'. Henslow and Skepper. FI. Suff., 36, 1860. 
Marsh Peucedan. Bentham. Hand. B. FI. 255, 1858. 
Water Parsnep. ‘Tofield’ ex Lees. FI. W., Yorkshire, 260, 
1888. 
With regard to this last name in Dr. Prior’s Pop. Names of Brit. 
Plants, 246, 1870; and in the Rev. K. Trimmer’s FI. Norfolk, this 
