292 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Ligusticum. 



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Hedges. About Harefield. Blackst. [Between Okeover and 

 Ashbourne. St. Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Mr. Woodward. 

 In the woods and other places about Hayes, near Oswestry, as* 

 common as the first sort. Seeds gathered Oct. 4, 1770, were 

 sown Jan. 2, 177 1* and produced plants which flowered in 1772, 

 and they or many of their progeny row occupy the same spot in 



Jan. 1789* It seems to be more than a variety. Mr. Waring.] 



B. July. 



LIGUSTICUM. Bloss. equal; petals rolled in- 

 wards, undivided: fruit egg-oblong, tapering 



at each end, 5 ridges on each seed. 





Sco'ticum. L. Leaves doubly three-fold. 



Pluk. Q6. 2-Pet. 26. \l~Penn. tour. ii. 24. at p. <205~Hem. 



par. 227-FL dan. 207. 

 Leaves glossy underneath. Linn. Little-leaves oblong-wedge- 



shaped, entire below, above irregularly serrated, and sometimes 

 deeply cut. Mr. Woodward. 



Scottish Lovage, or Sea Parsley. Rocks and cliffs by the sea- 



side in Scotland and the Western Isles, Near Queen's Ferry. [N e , ar 

 Kinghorn, Scotland. Mr. Whately. At Weams castle Fife- 

 shire, and on the coast between Arbroath and the Red-head| 

 Angus-shire. Mr. Brown. Cramond Island, 0' miles from Edin- 

 burgh. Dr. Hope.] B. July.* 



Cornubien'se.L. Root leaves doubly compound, cut; stem leaves in 



threes, spear-shaped, entire: furrows of the seeds 



indistinct. 



* 



E. hot. 682~Smith. ic.pict.fasc. ii.-i?*y8. at p. 20<MV- 2& 9« 

 Cornwall Saxifrage. Cornish Lavage. Cornwall. B. J^V* 



Ever since the time of Ray this plant seems to have been lost, 

 or at least to have eluded the researches of our modern botanists, 

 and for a long time only one specimen was known to exist ; and 

 some concluded that the species was extinct ; but a few years ago, 

 Mr. Pennington discovered it in great plenty in a field near Bod- 

 min, which had then been ploughed, after having lain fallow 

 from time immemorial. Being at Bodmin in June 1793> I *P - 

 plied to Mr. Gilbert, the proprietor of the land, who very oblig- 

 ingly sent a person to conduct me to the field in which Mr- * en- 

 nington had rediscovered the plant. This field is more than * 

 mile North of Bodmin ; the fuue is again growing upon It* bu 



It is much valued in the Isle of Sky. The root is reckoned a go m 

 carminative, and an infusion of the leaves a good purge for calves. 

 besides used as food, either as a sallad, or boiled as greens, i^-**- • 



I 77 2 »- P« 2*0- Horses, sheep, and goats eat it. Cows refuse it. 



