226 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. superficiales subhexagonss ssepe punctatse. Sp. M. hemisphcBrico proxima. Hab. Tana (Kiroruma Flumen). Mariscus maritimus, sp. n. Glabra. Culmi fasciculati, 4 dm. longi, graciles, apice trigoni leves, basi vix incrassati. Folia 4, sub- basalia, usque ad 3 dm. longa, 1-3 mm. lata, debilia flexuosa ; vaginas bruneae, striatae, tenuiter membranaceEe. Bractese 4, usque ad 15 cm. longaB, cum foliis consimiles, basi paullo dilatat^. In- florescentia in 1 caput compositum congesta, 15 mm. longa et lata, fere pyramidata ; spicaB 5-6. Spiculse numerosas, dense stipatae, 5 mm. longae, ovato-oblongae, lucide castaneae, 3-nuciger8e. Elia- chilla infra glumam imam nuciferam secedens, alis ellipticis, albo- scariosis. Glumae ovato-oblongae, vix acutae, multo-striatae vix carinatffi. Antheras lineares, ecristatae. Stylus linearis, brevius- culis ; rami 3, lineares, longi. Nux cum f parte glumas aequilonga, anguste oblonga, fequaliter trigona, lucide brunea ; cellulas super- ficiales hexagonae, perobscurae. Sp. M. bulbocauliwSbY. atrosanguinecB affinis. Hab. Mambrui, in arenis maritimis. The types of the species here described are in the British Museum Herbarium. FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. COMPILED BY William A. Clarke, F.L.S. (Continued from p. 185.) Schoenus ferrugineus L. Sp. PI. 43 (1753). 1885. '* Col- lected beside Loch Tummel [Co. Perth] in July [1885] by Mr. [James] Brebner." — F. Buchanan White in Journ. Bot. 1885, 219. S. nigricans L. Sp. PI. 43 (1753). 1660. Hinton and Teversham Moors" (Cambs.).— R. C. C. 82. Cladium jamaicense Crantz, Inst. i. 362 (1776). 1660. '♦Hinton Moor" (Cambs.).— R. C. C. 43. Kobresia caricina Willd. Sp. PL iv. 205 (1805). 1805. The honour of making this singular plant known is due to Mr. Dickson, who gathered it in the county of Durham in 1799. The Rev. Mr. Harriman had indeed found it in 1797." — E. B. 1410. Carex dioica L. Sp. PI. 972 (1753). 1690. "Frequently found on the Bogs on the West side of Oxford." — Bobart in Ray Syn. i. 235. C. Davalliana Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 266 (1800). 1800. " Discovered in marshy ground in Mearns-shire, North Britain, by Prof. James Beattie, jun., of Aberdeen." — Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. C. pulicaris L. Sp. PI. 972 (1753). 1666. *' Gr. Cyperoides jjulicare. A mile east from Oxford at Hockley of the Hole." — Merrett, 52. C. rupestris All, Fl Ped. ii. 264 (1785). 1836. Discovered
