528 MR. A. BENNETT ON VERONICA VERNA, L., V. TRIPHYELOS, L., 
III. 
DISTRIBUTION OF VERONICA VERNA, L., 
V. TRIPHYLLOS, L., HERN I ARIA GLABRA , L., AND 
SCLERANTHUS PERENNIS, L. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Rend 29 th October, 1907. 
Of these four species the first only is confined to E. Anglia, 
the second and the fourth are each found in one county 
only outside, the Herniaria though less confined is strictly 
a Germanic species in Britain.* All the Guernsey and Cornish 
specimens so named he has seen, Dr. B. Syme refers to 
H. ciliata, Bab. Until late years the two first were supposed 
to be confined to the “ Breck ” lands of W. Suffolk and 
W. Norfolk, but they have been gathered in E. Suffolk, the 
older records of such were considered to have been errors, but 
they have been confirmed by later observers. 
The following account is a resume of what is known of 
their distribution in England. 
Veronica verna^ Linn. Sp. PL, ed. 1, 14, 1753. 
Vernal Speedwell. Eng. Botany, t. 25. August 1, 1791. 
First record. 
“ Found by Sir J. Cullum near Bury in Suffolk.” Rose’s 
Elements of Botany, 445, 1775. Dr. Hind in his B. of Suffolk 
gives ‘ 1771,’ but I do not know on what his authority rests. 
* Though H. glabra is a reputed Cornish species it is doubtful. See Davey, 
Tentative List of Cornish Plants, 181, 1902. 
