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1491. ASPARAGUS offlcinalis, L. Once a native maritime plant, 

 now only garden escapes. The leaves are reduced to 

 minute scales, in the axils of which are borne bunches of 

 leaflless green shoots. The young etiolated shoots are 

 eaten as a vegetable. 



a. Near Greenwich, Syme's Botany, 1863 (extinct). 



b. First record, 1724 : Gravesend (extinct). 



(419) POLYGONATUM, Mill. (Bee Flowers). 



1493. P. multiflorum, All. (SOLOMON'S SEAL), 5, P. Woods and 



thickets ; very rare, but commonly cultivated. 



1. Good colony on Cator Estate, Bromley, but diminishing, 

 '97, Sc ; '04, W.H.G. (probably introduced). 



a. Abundant with officinale in Joyden's and other woods 



near Bexley, 1821. Graves. 



b. First record, 1597 : Crayford, on Rough or Rowe Hill. 



1494. P. officinale, All. 5, P. Woods ; very rare. 



a. Only one record, 1821, as above. 



1496. CONV ALL ARIA majalis, L. (LiLY OF THE VALLEY), 5, P. 

 Woods ; locally abundant. 



1. Darenth Wood, '01. W.H.G. 



2. W. end of Abbey Wood. Dod. 



3. Bostal Woods. Cole. 



a. Joyden's Wood, 1836. 



b. Heaths between Shooter's Hill and Woolwich, 1724. 



(423) ALLIUM, L. (GARLIC). Some species bear bulbils instead 

 of flowers and in some cases all the flowers may be 

 transformed into bulbils. 



1501. A. vineale, L. 7, P. Waste ground and dry fields, chiefly 

 occurring as var. c). 



var. b.) bulbiferum, Syme. 



1. Hedge on S. side of Woolwich Cemetery. Dod. 



2. Lane by Dartford Brent. H. 



3. Hayes Common, '06. W.H.G. 



var. c.) compactum, Thuill., the common form. 



1. Dartford Heath, etc. Dod. 



a. Thames Wall, 1877 ; Charlton, 1813. 



b. First record, 1629 : Saltmarsh below Dartford. 

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