238 MR. A. BENNETT ON HOLOSTEUM UMBELI.ATUM, L. 
Hildersham Furze Hills. W. H. Coleman in Bot. New 
Guide, 601, 1837. tolerable plenty on one of them (next 
Linton) and very sparingly on the roadside near them. June 
12, 1905. J. and A. Bennett. But the roadside was being 
“ pared ” and I fear it is doomed. Babington in his FI. 
Camb. quotes Smith’s note* “ In Cambridgeshire, Lyons, 
Herb. Banks,” As Lyons died in 1775, he was the first to 
gather it in England. 
30. Bedford. 
Near Ickleford in great abundance. H. Groves, J. of 
Botany, 244, 1876. Just on the borders of Herts and Bedford 
at Willbury Hill near Ickleford, Hitchen. Blow and Groves 
in Record Club Rep., 185, 1876. 
Reported from Gloucester (Buckman) and Kent (Me Ivor), 
but never confirmed. 
Distribution : — 
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, France, Belgium, 
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Russia, Siberia, 
Davuria, Algeria (Durand and Schinz. Consp. FI. Af., 5. 815, 
1895)- 
* Fl. Brit. 1, 63, 1800. 
