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HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 1. Maksh Pennywort — {Hydrocotyle vulgaris.) 

 Borders of ponds, and in boggy ground, where not occupied by larger 

 plants, common. Plentiful on Hale Moss. Fl. May, June. 

 Curtis, ii. 383 ; E. B. xi. 751; Baxter, iii. 168. 

 The only British plant with "peltate" leaves, and difficult to believe umbel- 

 liferous, were it not that the flowers and fruit are conclusive. The delicate and 

 peculiar foliage has procured for it with young ladies the name of " Fairies' tables." 



2. Sanicle — [Sanicula Europcea.) 

 In woods, common. Ashley Woods, near Bowdon ; Cotterill Clough ; 

 Gatley Carrs ; Agecroft Clough ; Reddish ; Bramhall. Fl. May, June. 

 E.B. i. 98; Baxter, iii. 235. 



3. True Hemlock — [Con'tum maculdtum.) 

 Ditch-banks, rather rare. Landside, Pennington, Leigh, and Dry- 

 wood, Worsley. (J. E.) Occasionally about Stretford, Chorlton, and 

 Reddish. The yard of the farm occupied by the notorious Hendersons, 

 at Bramhall, used to be full of it, and may be so yet. Fl. June, July. 



Biennial. 



Curtis, i. 17 ; E. B. xvii. 1191 ; Baxter iv. 303. 



The whole plant is poisonous, but modern experience has shewn it to be less 

 violent than was anciently supposed. 



The name "hemlock" is popularly applied to many different species of the 

 Umbelliferse, — perhaps to all the larger and branching kinds with white flowers, 

 just as the name "dandelion" is given indiscriminately to all the common Com- 

 positse of similar figure. It is well, therefore, to distinguish the present as the 

 " True hemlock." 



Often grown in gardens. 



4. Water Coavbane — {Ciciita virosa.) 

 Ditch-banks and pondsides, rather rare. Pondsides near Bucklow 



Hill ; near Mobberley ; on Knutsford Moor ; plentiful in pits at Mere ; 



in Foxhill meadows. Barton, plentiful ; and between Capesthome and 



Congleton, plentiful, growing with the Ranunculus Lingua. Fl. July, 



August. 



E. B. vii. 179 ; Baxter, v. 395. 



One of the rankest of our vegetable poisons. 



5. Wild Celery — {Apium graveolens.) 



In a clough on the south-side of Mellor Church, Derbyshire, plenti- 



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