I FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 83 S. neglectum Beeby in Journ. Bot. 1885, 193. 1885. Found by Mr. W. H. Beeby "in October, 1883, at Albury Ponds, near Guildford, Surrey."— Journ. Bot. 1885, 26, 193. S. simplex Huds. Fl. Angl. ii. 401 (1778), 1597. Common throughout England." — Ger. 41. S. affine Schinzl. in Flora, 1845, 670. 1851. "In lakes, Island of N. Uist, and Galloway, Scotland; Snowdon." — Bab. Man. ed. 3, 338 ; see also Bot. Gaz. iii. 158. S. minimum Fr. Summa, ii. 560 (1849). 1666. On the East side of Scrooby nigh a great Wood where the foot way is cast up Nottinghamshire." — Merrett, 115, Arum maculatum L. Sp. PI. 966 (1753). 1548. " Groweth in euery hedge almost in Englande about townes in the spryng of the yere." — Turn. Names, B ij, back. A. italicum Mill. Diet. ed. viii. (1768). 1854. Discovered by Dr. Bromfield and Mr. Albert Hambrough in the Undercliff, Isle of Wight.— Phytol. v. 194. Acorus Calamus L. Sp. PI. 324 (1753). 1666. " Found by Dr. Brown neer Lyn, and by Mr. Brown of Oxford, near Hedly in Surry." — Merrett, 2. " In fluvio Yare prope Nordvicum [Norwich] a cl. viro D. Thos. Brown M.D. primura observatus, nobisq. ante decem annos ostensus fuit." — Bay Cat. 7 (1670). Lemna trisulca L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1597. " I found it once in a ditch by Bermondsey house neer to London and never elsewhere." — Ger. 681. L. minor L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1562. "Well Imowen in England and specially of them that have pondes." — Turn. ii. 33, back; but see 'Libellus' and 'Names,' under Lens palustris. L. gibba L. Sp. PI. 970 (1753). 1778. " L. minor /S. gibba." — Huds. ii. 399. " Lower Bishop's pool, Northwick, near Worcester, and in a pool near the east side of Malvern Chace, Worcestershire, Sept. 8, 1776."— Stokes in With. Bot, Arr. ed. 2, p. 1020 (1787). L. polyrrhiza L. Sp. P. 970 (1753). 1724. "In fossis et aquis purioribus passim occurrit." — Kay Syn. iii. 129. Wolffia Michelii Schleid. Beitr. 233 (1844). 1866. In "a pond near Staines Common, Middlesex." — Dr. Trimen in Journ. Bot. 1866, p. 219. Alisma Plantago-aquatica L. Sp. PI. 342 (1753). 1597. "About the brinkes of rivers, pondes, and ditches almost every- where."— Ger. 338. Figure only, Turn. ii. 94 (1562). A. ranunculoides L. Sp. PL 343 (1753). 1633. "I found [this] in the companie of Mr. Willm. Broad and Mr. Leonard Buckner in a ditch on this side Margate in the Isle of Tenet." — Johnson, Ger. em. 417. Elisma natans Buchenau in Pringsheim, Jahrbuch, vii. 25 (1869). 1732. "In the great lake below the old castle at Llanberys ; Mr. Brewer." — Martyn's Tournefort, i. 17. Samuel Brewer's MS. account of his journey in Wales in 1726 (in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus.) contains the following: — "July 21. I took a walk down to the meadows below the old castle, and in the great ^nd lower moss lake towards Carnarvon met with .... Bur flag a2
