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MELANTHACEiE. 



COLCHICUM, Linn. 



775. C. autumnale, L. Meadotv-Safron. 



Native ; in pastures, woods, aud old hedgebanks, rather 



common. 

 G. In a pasture close to Westbury-on-Trjm. Iron Acton. 



Tortworth. Yate. 

 S. Bisbport Wood. Brislington. Pastures on Dundry 

 Hill, aud on tbe Bridgwater road under Dundry. 

 Abundant on Failand Farm, Field near Barrow Coui't 

 in plenty. Clevedou. Keynsham. Portbury. Yatton. 

 Whitchurch. Immense quantities in meadows on 

 Mendip, near Shipham. Shutshelf Wood, near Ax- 

 bridge. Ball Wood, near Congresbury, Paul Wood, 

 near Temple Cloud. In old lanes on Mendip above 

 Sidcot ; and ou the rough stony ground at the hill-top 

 towards Churchill, In meadows at Churchill, Frequent 

 about Bath. Cameley. Chew Stoke. Compton Martin. 

 Horriugton Bottom ; and elsewhere near Wells, Weston- 

 in-Gordano. Wriugton. Plants bearing white flowers 

 grow at Sutton, near Chew Magna ; near Whitchurch ; 

 near Hallatrow ; at Chelwood — " dozens of 'em in one 

 place " ; also at Whitley Batch, near by, aud in meadows 

 at Stanton Priox-. 



An account of Colchicum flowering in spring (March, 

 1880), both on Failand Farm and in pastures on the 

 Bridgwater road, will be found in the Journ. of Bot. 

 for May, 1880. The author expressed an opinion that 

 this would not prove to be a permanent condition of the 

 plants, but one temporarily induced by the pecuUarly 

 early and severe cold of the previous autumn. This 

 view has been justified by subsequent observation. In 



