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did malevolently grub up and destroy the whole of this 

 beautiful plant, in order that people should no longer 

 annoy him by coming from all the country round to 

 gather it in his fields. We have conversed with old 

 inhabitants of the parish who have pointed out to us 

 the exact spot where they remember to have gathered 

 it, and who say that there were some plants with white 

 flowers. Reported to grow also in meadows in Litton 

 parish, but this we have not been able to inquire into. 



ORNITHOGALUM, Linn. 



766. 0. umbellatum, L. 



Denizen or alien ; in meadows or orchards, and about old 

 gardens, very rare. 



S. Bishport ; Herb. Stephens. " In a field near the 

 caisson at Combe Hay, Dr. Davis." Fl. Bathon. Also 

 reported from near Combe Hay by Mr. T. B. Flower. 

 Ditchbank at Burnham, not near a house, 1879; Miss 

 Winter. Meadow at Uphill; Dr. St. Brody. Noted at 

 Walton-in-Gordano by two or three observers ; the place 

 being probably the site of an old garden. " On the top 

 of a hill, three miles on this side Bristol " ; Ray. Syn. t 

 372. V. 



767, 0. pyrenaicum, L. 



Native ; in woods and on grassy hedgebanks. Very local, 

 but usually abundant where it does occur. 



In our district this species is confined to a narrow tract of 

 country in North Somerset. The neighbourhood of 

 Bath is its headquarters, and it extends from that city 

 about eight miles to the westward, as far as Stockwood, 

 which we believe to be its western British limit.* At 



* We may conclude from Kay's mention of this Ornithogalum 

 in the Bristol district that in his time it did not occur further west 



