30 FLORA ORCADENSIS. 
Genus LXXXIII.—-ANTHRISCUS (Bernh.) 
169. A. VULGARIS (Bernh.), Beaked Parsley. 
Reported by Dr Duguid and R. Heddle. 
170. A. syLvestris (Hoffm.), Wild Beaked Parsley. 
Swanbister, not uncommon. It grows pretty 
frequently in the neighbourhood of farm steadings 
and at road sides in rich soil. Also recorded by Neil. 
‘Mr Bennett got specimens which he said were of this 
plant, but differed slightly. Mr Bennett—“It is a 
form that is not familiar to me at first sight. Opiz 
has a variety, alpestre, but gives no description.” 
Genus LXXXIV.—FCENICULUM (Hill). 
171. F. vunGARE (Mill.), Fennel. 
Grassy banks, seashore, Carrick, Eday (July 1883, 
Col. H. H. Johnston, C.B.) I failed to find this in 
1908 ; probably extinct. 
Genus LXXXV.—SCANDIX (Linn.) 
172. S. Pecren-VENERIS (Linn.), Shepherd’s Needle. 
In cornfields; rather scarce. Deerness, Firth, 
South Ronaldshay, Stromness, We. 
Genus LXXXVI.—CONIUM (Linn.) 
173. C. MAcULATUM (Linn.), Hemlock. Scarce. 
Mirkaday, Lingro, Berstane, Crantit, We. Dr 
Fortescue writes, “I noticed last August (1911) that 
the conium had died out at the spot where I first 
observed it about 1880, and was now growing eighty 
yards farther west on side of public road, Lingro.” 
