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FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 278 "Fl." for Flora" (the journal so called), En. PL" for '< Enume- ratio Plantarum" may be taken as examples of unsatisfactory abbreviations: Mr. Jackson rightly gives these as Herb. Brit.," Flora," and "Enum. PL" Again, there should be some different way of citing a complete work and a paper in a magazine : Mr. Druce cites " Tausch, Fl." and " Planch., Ann. Sc. Nat." where Mr. Jackson quotes "Tausch, in Flora" and " Plauchon, in Ann. Sc. Nat." There should be one mode of citation, whereas on this one page Mr. Druce indulges in almost infinite variety : sometimes the author's name alone is quoted ; sometimes the title of the book is added, with or without the date, volume, and page. Occasionally the matter rests on Mr. Druce's ij^se dixit — " Chrysanthemum Par- theniuvi, Bernh., is earlier than Persoon," for example. I do not propose to pursue further my examination of Mr. Druce's last contribution to the confusion of nomenclature, but the single page from which I have cited these examples contains material for further criticism. In the interests of botanical nomen- clature in general and of British botanists in particular, I would implore Mr. Druce to refrain from continuing his present course of burdening our literature with untenable names. James Britten. FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. COMPILED BY William A. Clarke, F.L.S. (Continued from p. 228.) Carex rigida Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 193 (1792). 1792. " In summo vertice montis Snowdon, Mr. Hudson. In alpicis Scoticis, Mr. Dickson." — Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. But it had been found by Sir J. E. Smith, in 1782, on Ben Lomond (see E. B. 2047). C. aquatilis Wahlenb. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 165 (1803). 1832. " Common on the Clova range of mountains," Scot- land ; found by W. J. Hooker, W. S. Burchell, and R. K. Greville [about 1824] .— E. B. S. 2758. C. kattegatensis Fries, Ind. Sem. Hort. Upsal. (1857). C. salina Wahlenb. ^. kattegatensis Lond. Cat. ed. 8. 1885. " Caith- ness, August, 1883. J. ijrant."— Journ. Bot. 1885, 50, 290. C. Goodenowii J. Gay in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2nd ser. xi. 191 (1839). C. vulgaris Fries (1842). 1696. " Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, spicis erectis sessilibus e seminibus confertis compositis." — Ray Syn. ii. 264, 4. " Gramen caryophylleum, an- gustissimis foliis, spicis sessilibus brevioribus erectis non compactis, Nobis . . . Hoc primo a charissimo Fratre Tillemano ostensum est, dein variis in locis observatum." — Morison, Hist. Ox. iii. 243 (1699). "Peat Bogs on Bullingdon Green."— Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 31 (1794). C. flacca Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. Appendix, no. 669 (1771). 0. glauca Scop. (1772). 1688. " Gramen cyperoides fol. caryoph. Journal of Botany. — Vol. 34. [June, 1896.] t