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inches wide, that are usually almost perfectly hemispherical in flower, 

 but sometimes flat or slightly depressed, never, I think, so much cup- 

 ped as in the common state of the species, and less deeply concave 

 in fruit, with or without a coloured, abortive flower in the centre, the 

 unexpanded flowers mostly rose-red, but becoming subsequently 

 white. Fruit differing in no respect, so far as I can find on careful 

 examination, from the common inland state of D. Carota; it is not 

 therefore likely to be the D. maritimus of Withering, which last is 

 not Lamarck's species of that name (see De Cand. Prod. iv. p. 211) ; 

 whilst ours is probably identical with the plant alluded to in the 

 Manual (p. 144), as apparently the D. gingidium of Linnaeus, though 

 it does not quite answer De Candolle's description of this latter. It 

 agrees well with the descriptions, and very fairly with the figure, of 

 D. hispidus, Desf. (Fl. Atlantica, i. p. 243, t. 63), which De Candolle 

 says grows on sea-cliffs at Dieppe and Treport, except that the leaf- 

 lets in our plant are more deeply incised, but this character I find 

 variable. Should it be identical with D. hispidus, still I cannot re- 

 gard it as anything but a form of D. Carota, rendered as it were more 

 obese by the proximity of the sea, though the same effect is not al- 

 ways produced on the species by the maritime atmosphere, and the 

 variety is found about the borders of the corn-fields 500 feet or more 

 above the beach, and some distance back from the shore. De Can- 

 dolle remarks of the genus Daucus, " Species extricatu difficillimae," 

 and the species-makers seem to have vied with the gardeners in get- 

 ting the most they could out of the wild carrot. The Rev. G. E. 

 Smith tells me he has traced our plant through every intermediate 

 gradation from the ordinary D. Carota in this island, and my own 

 observation goes far to confirm the same. 



Caucalis latifolia. In corn-fields ; very rare. About Crooks (or 

 Crux) Easton, Hudson. Of this plant, which rests solely on Hud- 

 son's authority, I have seen no specimens. It is, however, a very 

 likely species to occur in Hampshire. C. daucoides is still more 

 likely to reward a search in the corn-fields of this county. 



Torilis Anthriscus. In waste places, along hedges, borders of 

 fields and woods; extremely common over the island and county. 

 Though so much larger a plant, the fruit is considerably smaller than 

 in the next species, and as Curtis has remarked (Fl. Lond.), is more 

 aromatic. The secondary ridges are beset with only a double row 

 of ascending, scabrous prickles, that are shorter and more distant 

 than in T. infesta, and terminate in simple, straight, or erect, not 

 spreading or deflexed points, as in that, the interposed rows of white, 



