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it had become scarce, ' since the trees have been destroyed,' Mart. 

 Mill. Diet. Very sparingly under the bushes near the bog, 1850-55 ; 

 Pajnplin.] Ditchbank north of old target-bank ; Turner's Wood, 

 Bliss; Park Hampst. 29. Bishop's Wood, 1864, a single root; for- 

 merly abundant. 

 (V. Norwood, Middlesex,! abundantly, Dr. Marty n ; Baxter, i.) 

 VI. About Highgate ; Cooper, 104. At Winehmore Hill, Dr. J. Mitchell ; 

 Coojper, 119. feouthgate, F. W. ; Phi/t. N. S. vi. 349. The Alders 

 Copse near Whetstone, 1863 ; we could not find it in 1867. 

 VII. Lord Mansfield's AVood, near the ' Spaniards ; ' Curt. F. L. and Mart, 

 Mill. Diet. Still abundant in the wooded parts of Ken Wood 

 Grounds. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597 ; also first as a British species. Dug up for 

 gardens, and so nearly eradicated near London. 



POLYGONATTJM, Tourn. 

 (P. verticillatum, All. and P. officinale, All. are given for Ken Wood by 

 Himter, but Bliss could not find them ; Park Hampst. 29. Perhaps 

 they may have been in cultivation there.) 



668. P. multiflorum, All. Solomon's Seal. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 468. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1513. 

 Woods ; very rare. P. May, June. 

 IV. A single plant found in 1 864 by W. Gr. Smith in company with M. C. 

 ' Cooke and A. Grugeon in Bishop's Wood near the head of the bog 

 in which Ckri/sosplenium grows. In April 1866 we carefully searched, 

 in company with Mr. Smith, the spot indicated, but failed to find 

 the plant, which, however, may probably still exist there. 



MAIANTHEMUM, Wlggers. 



669. ^M. bifolium, DC. 



Convallaria bifolia, L. Smilacina hi/., Desf. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 465 ; iii. 514. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1510. 

 Woods ; A'ery rare. P. May, June. 

 VII. A patch of about twenty square yards on an eminence under the shade 

 of a very large beech in the enclosure of Ken Wood Grounds near 

 its S.E. angle. 

 Known to have existed there for nearly ninety years, but first recorded by 

 Hunter, 1813, in Park Hampst. 29. Mr. Irvine collected it in 1829 

 {Phyt. N. 8. iv. 233), shortly before which time another patch had been 

 recently destroyed. In 1835 Mr. E. Edwards found several patches 

 under the shade of fir trees {Phyt. i. 579), and since that time the spot 

 has been frequently visited by botanists. Possibly truly native. Lobel 

 suggests {Adv. 300) its nativity in England, Parkinson confirms it, 



t Norwood, Surreij, probably intended. 



