SAXIFEAGACE^. 119 



Meadows and open hilly places ; very rare. P. May, June. 

 I. In a moist meadow near Moor Hall, Harefield ; BlacJcst. Fasc. 90. 

 IV. In a hilly meadow above Child's Hill, Hampstead; Irv. MSS. 

 V. Sparingly on a ditch-bank by the roadside which skirts the south of 

 Chiswick House Grounds, 1869 ! ; Warren. 

 VII. [In the great field called the Mantells,* by Islington ; Gcr. 693.] 

 [On the back side of G-raye's Inne, where Mr. Lambe's Conduit heade 

 standeth ; Park. Theat. 423.] 

 First record: Gerarde, 1597. This is likely to occur in other places, as 

 it is abundant in some neighbouring parts of Surrey. 



CHRYSOSPLENIUM, Linn. 



263. C. oppositifolium, L. 



Saxifraga aurea Bodonm (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 418 ; Comp. 183. Syme E. B. iv. t. 563. 



Wet places in woods, and shady sides of ditches ; rare. P. April. 



I. Side of ditch in a meadow just below Coney's Farm at Harefield, 

 plentifully ; Blackst. Spec. 89. 

 IV. On Hampstead Heath ; Huds. i. 156. Bank of a ditch by the road- 

 "side on the west side of the Heath, 1824; Pamplin. Turner's Wood, 

 below the ' Spaniards ;' Im. MSS. In a shady ditch that runs across 

 Ken or Bishop's Wood ; Burnett, 105 ; Macreight, 93. By the stream 

 in the south part of Bishop's Wood, abundant, 1869. 



First record; Blackstone, 1746. 



PARNASSIA, Linn, 



26ft. P. palustris, L. Grass of Parnassus. 



P. vulgaris ^ palustris, Inst. B. H. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 419 ; iii. 438 ; Comp. 184. Syme E. B. iv. t. 565. 

 Wet meadows ; very rare. P. July — September. 

 I. In the moist meadows near Harefield Mill, particularly in a bog in 



the meadow next Mr. Ashby's fishing-house ; Blackst. Fasc. 72. 



'Observed by Mr. Ligo, who communicated (it) to me 1735;' 



Blackst. MSS. Meadows bet. Harefield and Eickmansworth, 1868 ! ; 



Newh. 



First record: Blackstone, 1735. 



* Usually called the Commandry Mantells. Part of the manor of the priory of 

 St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell. It covered sixty-six acres, comprising the greater 

 part of modern PentonviUe, and extending southward to the New River head. 



