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that time. To complete my knowledge of the subject, I determined 

 on my return into Worcestershire to have a field-day at Longdon 

 Marsh, near Upton-on-Severn, thinking possibly that Qi. Lachenalii 

 might be found there, as I had seldom examined the marsh botanically 

 so late as September, though within ray legitimate district. I accord- 

 ingly beat up the bushes between Malvern and Longdon the first 

 week in September, but with no success near Longdon ; nor in a well 

 known part of the marsh, where I had previously gathered many plants 

 of CE. peucedanifolia, was there the least appearance of Lachenalii. 

 At last I accidentally got into a wild lane almost unknown to me, be- 

 tween Welland and Castlemorton, having very deep, muddy ditches 

 on either hand, nearly filled up with an exuberant growth of Helo- 

 sciadium nodiflorum ; and looking closely as I went along, a single 

 umbel of an QEnauthe presented itself on the side of the ditch, which 

 on getting up the root proved to be Lachenalii. Finding myself now 

 on the right scent, I got on the other side of the hedge, and here, in 

 a ditch or deep furrow running across a neglected, very boggy pas- 

 ture, I was delighted to perceive a whole host of the plant encamped, 

 with banners displayed. I quickly broke in upon their entrenchment, 

 but they were all so deeply rooted in such a tenacious mud, that it 

 was with great difficulty I could disentangle them from it, and secure 

 my prisoners. A farmer came up to me before I had finished my ope- 

 rations, wondering what game I could have in view, and from him I 

 learned that the spot was called the Welland Marshes. I thus, how- 

 ever, add CE nan the Lachenalii to my Malvern Flora, and to that of 

 Worcestershire also, for 1 believe no other person has previously met 

 with it in the county. I now feel assured that the CEnanthes said to 

 grow in salt marshes, and the muddy ditches on their confines, ought 

 to be referred to Q^. Lachenalii and not to pimpinelloides. At all 

 events, I now find those I have myself formerly gathered on the coast 

 of Cardiganshire and Pembroke, as well as on Cromlyn Burrows, near 

 Swansea, and Braunton Burrows, Devonshire, and which, from their 

 very elongated roots, I was at the time dubious about, are all really 

 referable to QE. Lachenalii. 



Having thus entered into detail on the different habitats of the three 

 plants, I trust to be able to demonstrate their specific distinctness by 

 an examination of their roots, to which T have paid particular atten- 

 tion, and in illustration of this T refer to the annexed representations, 

 sketched from plants just taken from their places of growth. And 

 here I would remark, that the general character of the root as thus 

 exhibited can be decidedly depended upon ; for though its size and 



