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L. FAscicuLATUM Fosl. Co. Galway I Roundstone Bay (McCalla, 

 Hanna, Foslie), Fahy Bay (Hanna in Herb. Batters). Co. 

 Cork: Schull (ex Johnson, in list of Irish Corallinacese). Co. 

 Waterford : Ballynacourty (ex Johnson I.e.). 



Exsicc. — Hohiies, Algce BritanniccB Bariores no. 262. 



CHMBOPHYLLUM AUBEUM L. IN BRITAIN. 

 By G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 



In English Botany, under t. 2103, published in January, 1810, 

 there is a description of the above-named Umbellifer, which Smith 

 says was found by G. Don "in the borders of fields, between 

 Arbraath [Arbroath] and Montrose, and at Corstorphine, near 

 Edinburgh." Subsequently Don (Herb. Brit. fasc. ix. ? 1812, 

 No. 207) repeated the above record, adding, " I observed what I 

 believed to be an intermediate plant between this and the C. syl- 

 vestre, near the village of Kirkliston, about ten miles west from 

 Edinburgh." The specimen in his Fasciculns is correctly named, 

 but no one seems to have found the plant again in either of the 

 above localities, and Hooker [Student's Flora, p. 531) says, "Scot- 

 land, G. Don, not confirmed." It was therefore a great pleasure 

 to hear from Mr. James Eraser, of Leith, in 1909, that he had 

 found it at Callander. 



Last year I had perforce to break my journey at this popular 

 centre, and after dinner strolled out ; to my surprise, within five 

 minutes' walk of the ' Dreadnought ' Hotel, I met with G. aureuvi, 

 growing in great quantities by the Teith, up the banks of which I 

 traced it north-westwards for more than a mile, growing in im- 

 mense quantities to the exclusion of C. temulum. It was not 

 only on the banks of the river, but also in some meadows and 

 fields and under walls in the vicinity ; doubtless its very abundance 

 having led the numerous botanists who must have visited this 

 place to think it was a form of Anthriseus sylvestris Hoffm., 

 wliich it somewhat suggests. A closer examination, however, 

 shows that this plant is a perennial, and it has not the furrowed 

 stem of A. sylvestris. From C. temuUim, which its somewhat 

 spotted stems with swollen nodes might suggest, its perennial 

 growth, its leaves of a brighter green and firmer texture and witli 

 acute segments, and its umbels with denser and more showy 

 flowers, clearly distinguish it. It was pleasant to see, so firmly 

 established, another of Don's reputed discoveries. 



A word or two may be said as to the status of the plant. Its 

 Continental distribution is rather against its being Scottish, and 

 Nyman says it occurs in South Germany, Switzerland, Italy, &c., 

 but not in France (except the Pyrenees), Holland, Belgium, or 

 Northern Germany, while it is adventitious only in South Norway. 

 It is a plant which would scarcely tempt the horticulturist to intro- 

 duce it to his garden but, like the Chervil, it has ax'omatic pro- 



