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G. It was formerly abundant about Stinchcombe Hill; 

 and customarily gathered there in quantity for pharma- 

 ceutical purposes. As recently as 1868, 83 pounds of 

 the fresh herb were forwarded in one consignment to a 

 chemist's laboratory in Clifton ; yet in July, 1880, when 

 the Botanical Section B. N. S. made an excursion to the 

 spot, the joint search of the party during an afternoon 

 resulted in the discovery of only three plants. Frequent 

 on the wooded hills near Wotton-under-Edge, on the 

 eastern limit of the district. Casually on the railway 

 embankment near Stapleton Road Station. 



This is perhaps the most dangerous British plant. The 

 fruit is tempting in appearance, sweetish, and without 

 any remarkable or repulsive flavour, so that children 

 and others have often eaten it, and even a single berry 

 is said to have proved fatal. VI. VIII. 



HYOSCYAMUS, L. 



540. H. niger, L. Henbane. 



Native ; in waste places, preferring submaritime situations ; 

 permanent in one or two spots near the Bristol Channel ; 

 elsewhere its occurrence and recurrence are rare and 

 uncertain. 



G. On a beach between Avonmouth and New Passage. 

 Shirebampton ; two plants, July, 1880. 



S. Brean Down and shore of Bridgwater Bay. Portis- 

 head. Walton Hill, Clevedon. One plant on waste 

 ground at Weston-super-Mare, July, 1880. Three or 

 four plants in 1881 on a shingly beach near the Rifle 

 Butts at Clevedon ; none in 1 882, though searched for 

 repeatedly; Mr. D. Fry. Occasionally about Wells; 

 Miss Livett. VI. VIII. 



