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curious Monotropa, or Yellow Bird's Nest, and the 

 dark poisonous Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Bella- 

 donna), we have gathered in many delightful rambles 

 with our acute friend, Professor BTJCKMAN, among the 

 Cotteswold woods and wilds in Gloucestershire.* 



In some places the Knobby-rooted "Water-Drop- 

 wort ((Enantke pimpinelloides) , cannot fail to attract 

 attention, where, as in "Worcestershire and Glouces- 

 tershire, it fills whole upland meadows with its white 

 close-flowered umbels in the month of June, just 

 before the time of cutting the grass. It is well dis- 

 tinguished by its root of many widely- spreading round 

 or ovoid scaly tubercles on lignose stalks, terminating 

 in fibres. The radical leaves extend in a remarkable 

 horizontal manner, bi-pinnate, the pinnuUe broadly 

 elliptical. An allied species, flowering in May, and 

 considered by HOOKER and ABNOTT as the (E. silai- 

 folia, Bieb. (peucedanifolia Sib. and Smith,) has the 

 tubercles of the root elliptical or pyriform, and always 

 sessile, often suddenly swollen and graduating into 

 fibres. In the latter plant the radical leaves scarcely 

 differ from those of the stem, and it affects marshy 

 spots and the vicinity of rivers. (Enantlie LacJienaliij 

 which is the commonest of the three, flowers a month 

 later than the others with a lax umbel, and delights 

 in maritime or salt-water marshes. Its root consists 

 of many long slender fusiform tubercles, its radical 

 leaves are simply pinnate, their leaflets broadly lance- 

 olate, entire, blunt. The fruit of this is small, inversely 

 conical, without any callosity at the base.f 



* See Professor BUCKBIAN'S Botany of the Environs of Cheltenham. 



t See the Phytologist for Dec. 1845 (vol. ii. p. 354 et seq.) for figures of 

 the roots and detailed descriptions of these plants. 



