82 FIBST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. department is the arboretum ; and we are indebted to him for the first instalment of the Handbook of Trees and Shrubs grown at Kew, which was noticed in this Journal for 1895 (p. 29), and the com- pletion of which is much to be desired. The long-needed Guide to the Gardens, the absence of which has formed the subject of inquiries in Parliament during the last five years, will doubtless owe much of its value to Mr. Nicholson's knowledge. His principal work is The Dictionary of Gardening^ a standard book of reference. Mr. Nicholson was born (at Eipon) in 1847, so we may expect from him many more years of useful work. FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. COMPILED BY William A. Clarke, F.L.S. (Continued from vol. xxxiii. p. .) Lnzula Forsteri DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 160 (1805). 1804. " Mr. Edward Forster first observed this in 1795 . . . between Hog hill and Collier-row in Hainhault Forest, Essex." — E. B. 1293, and Sm. Fl. Brit. iii. 1395. A note on the original drawing for E. B. says, "First observed in 1790." L. vernalis DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 160 (1805). L. pilosa Willd. Enum. 893 (1809). 1597. "In woods ... or shadowie places."— Ger. 17. L. maxima DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 160 (1805). 1670. "I observed it plentifully in the ditch of a close adjoyning to Hampsted-wood near London." — Ray Cat. 149. L. arcuata Wablenb. in Summ. Veg. Scand. 13 (1814). 1824. " Summits of Cairngorum and others of the Grampian mountains. Prof. Hooker."— Sm. Engl. Fl. ii. 183. L. spicata DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 160 (1805). 1787. " On the very summit of Ben Lomond. Dr. J. E. Smith."— With. Bot. Arr. ii. 365. L. campestris DC. FL Fr. iii. 161 (1805). 1597. "In watery ditches . . . going from Paris garden bridge to Saint Georges fields," London. — Ger. 16. L. erecta Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 156 (1808). L. multifiora Lej. Fl. Spa, 169 (1811). 1660. "Gramen hirsutum majus panicula juncea compacta." — R. C. C. 68. Ray Hist. ii. 1291, &c. Formerly generally described as a var. of L. campestris, but as a separate species in Forster's Fl. Tonbridg. (1816). Typha latlfolia L. Sp. PI. 971 (1753). 1548. " Groweth in fennes & water sydes among the reedes. ... It is called in englishe cattes tayle or a Reedmace." — Turn. Names, G vij. T. angustifolia L. Sp. PI. 971 (1753). 1670. "Typha palustris media J. B vidi in rivulo quodam juxta sedes Nobiliss. Comitis Warwicensis Leezhouse dictas in Essexia." — Ray Cat. p. 308. Sparganium ramosum Huds. Fl. Angl. ii. 401 (1778). 1562. "Comon in England." — Turn. ii. 143,
