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Obs. Greatly increased since Easton Railway mads. 

 Frequently flowers throughout the winter. Called 

 in Portland " Kiss-me-quick," " Convict grass," and 

 " Prince of Wales' feathers." F. The closely 

 allied plant, Valeriana sambucifolia, is similarly 

 called " Kiss-me-quick " in the North-east of the 

 County ; Revd. E. F. Linton (" Notes on the Dorset 

 Flora," cited ante). " In the South, Kentran- 

 thus ruber has a history of three centuries at least ; " 

 (Flo. Bris.p. 359). 



Valerianella olitoria, Poll. Lamb's Lettuce. Native. I. 

 Mere beach, east side near Highwater mark, plentiful, 

 1880. II. Freq. Cult, ground, old walls, &c. 

 V. eriocarpa, Desv. Hairy-fruited Lamb's Lettuce. Probably 

 Native. II. Added to the Dorset Flora, 1874, by 

 Mansel-Pleydell, from specimen on Churchyard Retaining - 

 wall Churchope ; (see Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, p. 145). Rather 

 freq. in cult, ground between Prison and Churchope 

 1878 and subsequently. Near Black Nore 1881. By 

 Lighthouse ; Revd. H. J. Riddelsdell in Journ. Bot. 

 1908, p. 386. 



Obs. Withers early and may be easily overlooked. 

 Fruit usually, or always, glabrous in Portland 

 specimens. " May be truly wild in the Portland 

 station . . . being a native of West France ; " 

 Revd. E. 8. Marshall in Journ. Bot. 1908, p. 286. 

 V. rimosa, Bast. (Auricula, DC.). Sharp-fruited Lamb's 

 Lettuce. Colonist. II. Not infrequent. Noted, Gibson. 

 Cornfields Grove Cliff, Reforne, and Black Nore, 1878, 

 and subsequently. 



V. dentata, Pott. Narrow-fruited Lamb's Lettuce. Colonist. 

 II. Freq. Cornfields ; Gibson. Cornfields between 

 Prison and Churchope and at Black Nore, 1880. 

 Var. mixta, (Dufr). II. Rare. Found by the Author 

 in cornfield Black Nore, 1881 ; new to Dorset. Cult, 

 ground ; J. W. White in Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 432. 

 " Portland ; " Druce, ibid 1908, p. 386. 



