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MELANTHACEA 



OOLCHICUM, Linn. 



775. C. autumnale, L. Meadow- Sdfron. 



Native ; in pastures, woods, and old hedgebanks, rather 



common. 

 G. In a pasture close to Westbury-on-Trym. Iron Acton. 



Tortwortb. Yate. 



S. Bisbport Wood. Brislington. Pastures on Dundry 

 Hill, and on tbe Bridgwater road under Dundry. 

 Abundant on Failand Farm. Field near Barrow Court 

 in plenty. Clevedon. Keynsham. Portbury. Yatton. 

 Wbitcburcb. Immense quantities in meadows on 

 Mendip, near Shipbam. Sbutsbelf Wood, near Ax- 

 bridge. Ball Wood, near Congresbury. Paul Wood, 

 near Temple Cloud. In old lanes on Mendip above 

 Sidcot ; and on the rougb stony ground at tbe bill-top 

 towards Churchill. In meadows at Churchill. Frequent 

 about Bath. Cameley. Chew Stoke. Compton Martin. 

 Horrington Bottom ; and elsewhere near Wells. Weston- 

 iu-Gordano. Wrington. Plants bearing white flowers 

 grow at Sutton, near Chew Magna ; near Whitchurch ; 

 near Hallatrow ; at Chelwood " dozens of 'em in one 

 place " ; also at Whitley Batch, near by, and in meadows 

 at Stanton Prior. 



An account of Colchicum flowering in spring (March, 

 1880), both on Failand Farm and in pastures on the 

 Bridgwater road, will be found in the Journ. of Bot. 

 for May, 1880. The author expressed an opinion that 

 this would not prove to be a permanent condition of the 

 plants, but one temporarily induced by the peculiarly 

 early and severe cold of the previous autumn. This 

 view has been justified by subsequent observation. In 



