UMBELLIFER.E. 165 



y. Wembury ; Keys, ih. Bridgend. Between the Pl3'montli and 

 Yealnipton Road and Puslinch Bridge, sparingly ; also by the 

 tidal inlet below Kitley Pond. 

 VI. By the Erme near EfFord ; and by a tributary stream at Orcher- 



ton And near Cling Mill. 

 Sometimes this is perennial, through buds breaking out around the 

 crown of the root-stock of flowering plants ; these by tlie succeeding 

 spring form large tufted leafy masses about the withered flower-stalks of 

 the previous year. I noticed many such tufted plants by Tameiton Creek 

 in ]March, 1875. 



In Eiiglish Botany, ed. 3, it is stated to be biennial, in the Manual 

 perennial. 



First record : Watson, 1835. 



HELIOSCIADIUM, Koch. 



318 H. nodiflorum, Koch. Procumbent Water Parsnii). 



Native ; m streams and ditches. Very common. Pai't of June 



to September, or later. Area general. 



The commonest of the stream-side and ditch species of the Umhelliferce. 



Cows are fond of this plant, and will crop its leaves even when there is 



no lack of grass. 



PETROSELINUM, Hoffm. 



319. P. sativum, Hoffm. Common Parsley. 



Alien ; established on rocky banks and walls. Rather rare. Part 

 of June to August, 

 c. I. In plenty on a rocky bank close to an old limekiln on the St. 

 Stephens side of Antony Passage. A few plants near a house 

 at Trewandra, 1874. 

 II. Cremyll, on limestone rock. Well established in one or tAvo spots 

 by jMillbrook Lake, between Inceworth and Southdown. On a 

 garden wall, Saltash. 

 D. III. On limestone rocks by the road to Devil's Point from Durnford 

 Street, Stonehouse. Hedge-bank by a garden near Pounds. 

 Sparingly on a garden wall at Tamerton Foliot, with a patch of 

 Allium Schcenoprasiim, 1875. 

 IV. On some rocks between Mount Batten and Turnchapel, apparently 



well estabhshed, 1874. 

 V. Well and plentifully established on a wall below a garden in the 

 village of Newton Ferrers. Sparingly on a wall at Creacombe, 

 1873. Wembury, near the Alms-houses. Fu'nfly established 

 on a slaty bank or cutting by the Plymouth and Totnes Road, 

 at Elburton ; associated with Geranimn pyrenalcum. 

 VI. On an old wall near the church at ^lodbury. A plant or two on 

 a wall near Ermington village, 1874. 



