242 UMBELLIFERAE 



Top. Bot. 192. Symc, E.B. iv. 116, 1586. Nyman, 306. Fl. Oxf. 139-40. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods and thickets. Very local. P. July- 

 August. 



First record. P. magna, Ilsley, the author in the Rej). of Bot. Record 

 Quh, 98, 1884. 

 1. Isis. Between Botley and Cumnor. 



3. Pang. Near Ilsley. AshriJge Wood. 



4. Kennet. Burghfield. 



5. Loddon. Wargrave, Melvill. 



Near Cumnor it occurred as the var. rosea = P. magna, \a.Y. rosea, 

 Koch, Syn, 287 (1837). 



P. major evinces a preference for clayey soils. It is recorded for all 

 the bordering counties, hut its occurrence in Hants is very doubtful. 



CONOPODIUM, Koch, in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. (1824), 118. 

 C. denudatum, Koch, I.e. Pig Nut, Earth Nut. 



Bunium Bulbocastanum, Huds. Fl. Angl. 122 (not of Linn.). B./lexuo- 

 sum, Stokes in With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, i. 276. 



Top. Bot. 191, Syme, E. B. iv. 113, t. 584. Nyman, 303. Fl. Oxf. 137. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, hedges, heaths, &c. Common 

 and generally distributed, more frequent in friable soil. P. 

 April-July. 



First record. Earth Chesnut. It growes in Merley Wood and Chylsey 

 Wood, MS. in Ltjfe's Herball, 1660. Bunium Jlexuosum, Dr. Noehden, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. Conopodium Jlexuosum, plentiful in Hamp- 

 stead Norris Woods, Mr. J. Lousley in Russell's Cat. 1839. 

 C. denudatum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



[Mtrrhis Odorata, Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2, i. 207 (1772), Scandix odorata, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 257. Odorata, Rivinus, Pent. Irr. Occurs in Oxfordshire and 

 Surrey, but probably only as a relic of cultivation.] 



CHAEROPHYLLUM, Linn. Gen. n. 320. 



C. temuliim, Linn. Sp. PI. 258 (1753). Rough Chervil, Wild Chervil. 



C. temidentum, Sm. E. B. t. 1521. Myrrhis iemidenta, Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 51. 



Top. Bot. 206. Syme, E. B. iv. 169, t. 625. Nyman, 300. Fl. Oxf. 136. 

 Native. Septal. Thickets, hedge-banks, &c. Very common and 



generally distributed. P. (?B.) May-July. 

 First record. C. temulum. In hedges, common, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



This and Conium macidatum are the only two British plants belonging 

 to the order which have spotted stems, but this is a hairy, while 

 Conium is a glabrous plant. 



Chaerophyllum temidum is found in all the bordering counties. 



