CAUCALIS 251 



?5. Iioddon. In a hedge about half a mile from Eton, Gotobed. 



in Sm. Engl Fl. ii. 105 (1824). A specimen from this locality, 



collected by Mr. R. Gotobed in 1803, is preserved in Herb. J. E. 



Smith at the Linnean Society. The locality was very probably 



in Buckinghamshire. 

 In Mavor's Agr. Berks Dr. Noehden records T. maximum as occurring 

 on banks of fields, but not much reliance can be placed on the state- 

 ment. 



In the Phytologisf Mr. Bosioell writes, 'Tordijlium seems quite lost at 

 Eaton Wick, which is near Cumnor, not Eton, Bucks.' But there is 

 an Eton Wick in Buckinghamshire, and there is no authority for 

 connecting the Eaton Wick of North Berkshire with the more cele- 

 brated Eton where Mr. Gotobed found Tordylium. I have failed to 

 find it either at Eton or Frilford, or in any of its Oxfordshire or 

 Buckinghamshire localities, so it is to be feared that this rare species 

 is now extinct in the province of the Upper Thames. 



DAUCUS, Linn. Gen. n. 296 ^Tournefort, Inst. t. i6t). 

 D. Carota, Linn. Sp. PL 242 (1753). Wild Carrot, Bird's-nest. 



Toj). Bot. 202. Syme, E. B. iv. 156, t. 615. Nyman, 279. Fl. Oxf. 130. 

 Native. Pascual. Dry pastures, roadsides, chalk downs, &c. Very 



common and generally distributed, especially in poor soil. B. 



May- August. 

 First record. B. carota, Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 D. Carota occurs abundantly in all the bordering counties. 



**D. puMiLus, Ball, in Linn. See. Joum. xv. (1878) 477. 



Orlaya maritima, Koch, in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. i. (1824) 79. Nyman. 

 278. This plant of southern Europe occvirred as a casual on rubbish 

 heaps at Grandpont in 1890, but the ground is now bu.ilt over. 



CAUCALIS, Linn. Gen. n. 294 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 171). 



**C. LATiFOLiA, Linn. Syst. ed. 12, ii. 205 (1767). 



Tordylium latifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. 240 (1753). Turgenia latifolia, Hoffm. 

 Umb. Gen. 59 (1814). Top. Bot, 203. Syme, E. B. iv. 161, t. 618. Nyman, 281. 



Casual. Agrestal. Cornfields. Very rare. A. June. 



First record. C'aucalis lata Apii folio, C. B. P. Inter segetes in Comitatii 



Oxon. Bercheriae aliisque invenitur (Bobarf), Hanson, Hist. Ox. iii, 308, 



1699. 



In the Flora of Oxfordshire I referred this record to C. daucoides. I find, 

 however, that the plant under the above name in Morison's Herbariiim at 

 Oxford is C. latifolia. I still think it probable that Bobart may have con- 

 fused the two plants, and that the plant whicb occvirred in the two counties 

 mentioned was C. daucoides. I have been unable to find either species. 



4. Kennet. By the raUway, Newbury, a single specimen, Jackson, 1896. 



C. latifolia is reported as a casual plant from Hampshire on very old 

 authority. 



