472 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. only in the position to be assigned to S. purpurea in the specific order, and in the retention of three forms of the species and two of the hybrid with viminalis in the Addendum List. The triple hybrid, S. sesquitei'tia F. B. White, appears in cultivation to justify the origin assigned to it ; as also does S. secerneta [purpurea x phylici- folia). The question, however, is liable to be raised again with regard to the latter, whether S. Croweana Sm. is not the earlier name ; since connation of filaments was a distinguishing feature of this variety of S. phylicifolia, and connation of filaments is one of the main evidences of the presence of .S'. purpurea in composition.* There is, however, some confusion in the specimens to which the name 8. Croweana has been given, and some suspicion of •* mon- strosity" in some of the specimens that clearly have connate filaments (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 398, 399), and on these grounds Dr. White thought it desirable to impose a fresh name. FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. COMPILED BY William A. Clarke, F.L.S. (Continued from p. 365.) Arrhenatherum avenaceum Beauv. Agrost. 55 (1812). 1597. '* In the fields next to S. James Wall as ye go to Chelsey." — Ger. 22. Fibichia umbellata Koel. Gram. Gall. & Germ. 309 (1802). Cynodon Dactylon Pers. (1805). 1688. " Found by Mr. Newton . . . between Pensans and Marketjew in Cornwall." — Ray Fascic. Stirp. Brit. Sieglingia decumbens Bernh. Erf. 44 (1800). Trlodia Br. (1810). 1670. " Gramen avenaceum minus procumbens paniculis non aristatis." — Ray Cat. 141. Harefield Common" (Middx.). — Blackst. Fasc. 34 (1737). Phragmites communis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134 (1820). 1551. " Groweth muche in England." — Turn. i. 64 (25). Sesleria caerulea Arduin. Animadv. Bot. Spec. alt. 18 (1768). 1670. "Gramen spicatum montanum asperum e rupium fissuris in monte Ingleborough exit." — Ray Cat. 155. "Ab amico optimo D. Fitz Roberts accepi, qui alicubi in Cumberlandia collegit." — Ray Syn. ii. 325 (1696). Cynosurus cristatus L. Sp. PI. 72 (1753). 1632. Gramen cristatum, Bauh." — Johns. Kent, 15. " In most medowes about Mid-summer."— Ger. em. 29^ (1633). Koeleria cristata Pers. Syn. i. 97 (1805). 1688. *' Observatur nobisque communicata D. Dale in montosis et campestribus sed
- See Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 451, where Dr. White remarks : — "As belonging
to Salix sordida I put all plants which, however like cinerea they may be, have the filaments of the stamens more or less united to each other .... one of the best characters of hybridization with S. purpurea is the presence of connate stamens."
