278 liliacej:. 



Gerarde and How give special localities. It rarely produces fniit at Ken 

 Wood, but Mr. Gr. Kay, one of the gardeners there, sent us, in August 

 1866, some nearly ripe berries. 



RUSCTJS, Linn. 



670. R. aculeatus, L. Butcher's Broom. Kneeholm. 



Buscus sive Bricscus (Ger.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 464. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1516. 

 Woods ; very rare. Shrub. March, April. 

 I. In a little grove near Breakspears ; Blackst. Fasc. 88. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Ger. "ib'd. Formerly abundant there ; Loud. Arb. 

 et Frut. 2519. Bishop's Wood, in small quantity, 1861 ; not there 

 in 1867. 

 VI. Near Finchley ; Varenne. 

 VII. Lane near West End ; Burnett. 



First record: Gerarde, 1597 . Perhaps extinct. 



LILIACEiE. 



TULIPA, Lmn. 



671, ^ T. sylvestris, L. Wild Tulip. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 449. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1520. 

 Meadows ; very rare. P. May, June. 



I. In a grove by Harefield Church, 1853 ; Herb. Hardw. 

 VI. Top of Muswell Hill, J, Woods ; B. G. 403. Hundreds of plants there 

 in 1855 ; Pkyt. N. S. 1.391. Still growing there in 1860 or 1861 ; 

 Pamplin. The Mus-well field in Ehode's fields ; Church. 

 First record: Woods, 1805. Perhaps native. The plant very rarely 

 flowers at Muswell Hill, the leaves being always cut with the hay. 

 Prof. Church transplanted bulbs from the field into a garden, where 

 flowers were produced. 



FRITILLARIA, Linn. 



672. P. Meleagrrls, L. Snake' s-head. Fritillary. Guinea-hen flower. 

 F. precox purp, variegata, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 450. E. B. 622, reproduced in Syme E. B. ix. t. 1519 (drawn 



from a Middlesex specimen) ; but Curt. F. L. f. 3 is a better figure. 

 Meadows ; rare. P. April, May. 



I. In Maud-fields near Eislip Common,t observed above forty years by 

 Mr. Ashby of Breakspears ; Blackst. Fasc. 29. Fields at Pinner, in 



t In a letter to Richardson (R. Corresp. 354), Blackstone describes this locality as * a 

 meadow by a wood-side near Harefield,' 1736. There are no fields known as ' Maud-fields ' 

 now at Ruislip, but Ruislip Moor answers to the above description. 



