176 UMBELLIFER^. 



part of one of the pastui'cs, but the second in cultivation, and 

 the plants only on the hedge-hank between it and the other 

 field, 1871 : 3'^et existing in the locality, but in reduced quantity 

 through extended cultivation, 1877. 

 This ascends to 400 feet in District in. (Devon), and to 575 near 

 Dupath. It attains its greatest luxuriance in partially shaded woodland 

 glades, where its stems sometimes are two or three feet high and con- 

 siderably branched. When gathered the leaves wither very quickly. 

 First record : Hore, m Phytologist, 1841 ; also first for DevoBk- 



SMYBNIUM, L. 



345. S Olusatrum, L. Common Alexanders. 



Denizen ; on hedge-banks and in waste spots about villages or in 

 the vicinity of old houses. Connnon. April, jMay. 



c. I. Antony Passage ; Keys, Fl. ii. 181 ! ; abundant, but with a 

 nuniber of ' escaped ' species. About Port Wrinkle. Down- 

 derry, near houses. Cliff' by Seaton estuary, opposite the old 

 house by the sands. Trethill, Sheviock, close to farm buildings. 

 Trehan. Trevollard, growing near Leonurus Cardiaca. Be- 

 tween Saltash and Notter Bridge. St. Mellion, close to the 

 Rectory House. St. Winnolls. Tideford Cross. 

 II. Bank by the sea near Kingsand village. Near Wiggle farm-house, 

 Rame. Lower Tregantle. Near Torpoint. Wilcove. ]Merri- 

 field. Cremyll. Saltash. Tinnel. St. Dominick. 



D. III. Stoke ; Jacob, Keys, Fl. ii. 181. Hedge-bank behind Mont- 

 pellier House, Pennycross. St. Budeaux, close to the village. 

 King's Tamerton. On hedge-banks close to farm buildings at 

 Horsham, Tamerton Foliot. Gnatham, and near Holes Hole. 

 Beer Ferrers. Near Whitleigh. 

 IV. Crabtree ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 192. Rocks under the Hoe 

 and Citadel ! Keys, Fl. ii. 181. On limestone rock above the 

 Barbican, Plymouth, at the back of the Admiral iMcBride Inn. 

 In plenty between Lipson Terrace and Mount Gould. Catte- 

 down. Oreston. Plymstock. Widey, Fursdon, Higher Leigham, 

 in Egg Buckland parish, and close to that village. 

 V. Langdon. Noss, below a garden. By a ruin, also near a garden, 

 Newton Ferrers. Blackpool, close to a cottage. Between 

 Ridgway and Ivy bridge, opposite Ford farm-house. By cottages 

 between the Plymouth and Ivybridge Road and Lynham. 

 W. Ivybridge ; Julian, Keys, Fl. ii. 181. Kingston, close to the 

 village, and near a farm-house between that and Gutsford 

 Bridge. Mothecombe. Battisborough Cross. Ermington, close 

 to the village, and near a farm-house between that and Sequers 

 Bridge. CarseAvell. JAlodbury. 



