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fields quite white with it. It is likewise found with the following 

 species (CE. Lachenalii) in salt-marsh or brackish lands, as well as 

 remote from salt water, and may sometimes be seen growing plenti- 

 fully amongst wheat. I know but little of its distribution in main- 

 land Hants, but suspect it to be rare at any distance from the coast, 

 not recollecting to have once met with it in the interior of the county, 

 or finding any memorandum to that effect. Plentiful in the borders 

 of fields about Lymington, July, 1848. The periodical decrease or 

 partial disappearance of the plant is remarkable in a perennial spe- 

 cies, as this certainly seems to be in a garden. The round or oval 

 knobs or tubers on the root are farinaceous, sweet and well-tasted, 

 greatly superior to those of earth or pig-nuts (Buniumflexuoswn), as 

 being wholly devoid of acrimony, and might possibly be cultivated to 

 advantage, as those of Bunium Bulbocastanum are said to be in Italy 

 and Norway. 



(Enanthe Lachenalii. In very wet salt-marsh land, also in damp 

 pastures and heathy ground adjacent to the shore, and consequently 

 where the soil is more or less saline, but far less frequent than the last, 

 and invariably, I think, in the vicinity of salt water. Shores of the 

 Wootton River, and along the Yar betwixt Yarmouth and Freshwater, 

 in considerable plenty, in the latter station growing amongst the 

 furze, on that part of Welmingham Heath contiguous to the river, and 

 where the soil is comparatively dry. All over the marsh meadows at 

 Easton Freshwater Gate. Salt-marsh pasture on the east side of 

 Hayling Island. A most distinct and well-marked species from the 

 last. 



Of (Enanthe peucedanifolia I know nothing, except from descrip- 

 tion, the figures of Pollich and of f English Botany,' and from an in- 

 different dried specimen. I think it highly probable it will be found 

 to inhabit this county or island, and I have lately entertained a 

 strong suspicion that some of my stations for CE. Lachenalii given 

 above, where the plant grows on the drier soils, may really belong to 

 CE. peucedanifolia. Does this latter never grow in or near salt 

 water ? I have a specimen of a plant gathered by myself at Bulver- 

 hithe, in Sussex, in 1834, which looks like CE. peucedanifolia, but 

 wants the characteristic tubers at the root, and has a many-leaved 

 general involucre, but this last seems liable to considerable variation, 

 being sometimes present and at other limes wholly absent. From 

 the description of Lloyd, in that excellent little work, the ' Flore de 

 la Loire Inferieure' and whose account of these CEnanthes is admira- 

 ble, the fruit of CE. Lachenalii and CE. peucedanifolia do not differ 



