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VI. Railway bank, Colney Hatch. Pickard Lock, Edmonton. Side of 

 Lea bet. Edmonton and Tottenham ; Cherry {v. s.). 

 VII. Copenhagen Fields ; Herb. Hardw. Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. Railway 

 bank, Hampstead. 



First record: Blackstone, 1737. The majority of specimens in Middlesex 

 are the remains of cultivation. Wild on the chalk. 



HERACLEUM, L. 



294. H. Spbondylium, Z. Cow Farsnep. Hog-Weed, 

 Sphondylium vulgare, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 454 ; Comp. 196. Syme E. B. iv. t. 613. 



Hedges ; very common. P. July. 

 Throughout all the districts. 

 VII. Marylebone Fields, 1815 ; Herb. G. # R. Sandy End. 



First record : Blackstone, 1737. Blackstone noticed the state (var. j8 an- 

 gustifolium, Bab.) with laciniated leaves (figured in Pluk. Phyt. t. 63) 

 in several places near Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 97. Mr. Irvine 

 mentions a ' var. majus,^ found at Chelsea Old Waterworks ; Irv. 

 H. B. P. 598. 



TORDYLIUM, L. 



295. T. maximum, L. Great Hartwort. 



T. semine minus hirto et limbo quasi Icevi sett parum granulato (Morison). 

 Tordylium sive Seseli creticum minus, Park. (Ray, Buddie). Small 

 Hartwort (Petiver). Tordylium maximum, Inst. R. H. sive Seseli creti- 

 cum majus, Park. (Dillenius). 



Cyb. Br. i. 455; Comp. 196. Syme E. B. iv. t. 614. Hook. Curt, 

 vol. V. (from an Oxford specimen). 



Hedgebanks and waste ground. A. July. 

 III. Frequent about London ; Morison, Umb. 40. Found by Mr. Doody 

 about Thistleworth ( = Isleworth) ; R. Syn. i. 63. I have found it 

 in various adjacent localities there for many years ; Doody MSS. 

 Mr. Doody showed me this growing in two or three places about 

 Thistleworth; MSS. Budd. (There are specimens in Herb. Budd. 

 vol. cxx. fol. 3, and also in Herb. Pet. vol. cli. fol. 147.) Not now 

 to be found in Mr. Doody's locality, Mr. Clements; Hill, 137. 

 Mr. Francis gave me seeds of this plant gathered near Twickenham 

 in 1827; the plants raised from them did (if I mistake not) supply 

 the figure in Baxter's British Plants, vi. 443 ; Pamplin. Near 

 Twickenham, July, 1837, W. Wilson; bet. Twickenham and Isle- 

 worth, in a hedgebank, W. Borrer ; Herb. Mus. Brit. In a hedge on 

 the right-hand side of a lane leading from St. Stephen to the 

 Marquis of Aylesbury's Lodge, about midway, within Twickenham 

 parish, but close to Isleworth, R. Castles ; Watson. 

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