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abundant. II. " In crevices of the cliffs in Portland ; " 

 Pulteney. East Cliffs and near Lighthouses. West 

 Cliff towards Black Nore. 



Obs. Until late years gathered in Portland and sold 

 for a pickle, but rarely so now. I found an 

 old plant in South Portland, 1879, the stem of 

 w r hich measured three inches and a-half in circum- 

 ference. 



GE nan the pimpinelloides, L. Callous-fruited Water Drop- 

 wort. Native. II. Not com. Near Lighthouses. 

 Fields around Southwell ; Culvervvell ; F. 

 CE. Lachenalii, C. Gmel. Parsley Water Dropwort. Native. 

 Scarce. II. Shore Castleton, 1880 ; perhaps now 

 destroyed. The coastline around Castleton has been 

 much interfered with recently by Admiralty works. 

 Silaus flavescens, Berrih. (pratensis, Bess.). Sulphur-wort. 

 Native. II. Not freq. East Weare ; Culverwell ; near 

 Lower Lighthouse ; F. 



Obs. This plant, usually common, is absent from 



large tracts of South England. 



Daucus Gummifer, All. Sea Carrot. Native. II. On 

 rocks ; Mansel-Pleydell in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, 136. 



Obs. Requires further investigation. Possibly, only 



a maritime variety of D. Carota L. 



Caucalis nodosa, Scop. (Torilis nodosa, Gaert.). Knotted 

 Hedge- Parsley. Native. II. Rather freq. in dry, 

 sheltered places. Grove Cliffs ; F. 

 Cornus sanguinea, L. Dog-Woo'l. Native. II. East 



Weare, less freq. southwards. 



[Echinophora spinosa, L. " On the Chesil Beach between the 

 Ferry and Portland, August 1837;" Revd. A. Bloxam; 

 Baxter Phoen. Bot. vi. p. 478. A strange error ! 

 Crithmum maritimum probably mistaken for it ; see 

 Druce in Journ. Bot. 1908, p. 386.] 



Sambucus Ebulus, L. Danewort or Dane's Blood. Denizen. 

 II. Local. First evidence Revd. H. E. Fox, Flo. Dor. 

 Ed. 2, p. 138. Southwell, in some plenty. 



