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pool, that tlie jjlant is native on the sand hills of the Lan- 

 cashire coast, northward from that town. The county of 

 Lancaster may in consequence be given as the north limit 

 of the species on the west side of the island ; imless, in- 

 deed, we recognize it as a native also of the West Low- 

 lands or West Highlands ; of the former on authority of 

 Mr. J. T. Syme, who saw the plant " apparently wild near 

 Maybole " in Ayrshire ; of the latter on authority of Pro- 

 fessor Balfour, who reports it " near the Inn " at Brod- 

 rick in Arran. I hesitate to receive this often cultivated 

 plant as a native of Scotland on these two localities only ; 

 the second especially being suspicious, and the first not 

 warranted genuine. 



490. Dauciis maritimus, vol. i. p. 456. 



The province of the Mersey may perhaps require to be 

 added to the area for this obscure species ; but at present 

 only as an uncertain habitat, so indicated by the Flora of 

 Liverpool. I have seen numerous plants of D. Carota, 

 with perfectly convex umbels of fruit, in a field in Surrey; 

 and along the coast the umbels of this or D. Carota, or of 

 both, vary much in regard to convexity or concavity. As 

 to "triangular broad" or "oblong narrow" outline of leaf, 

 I fear that is only a difference depending on the situa- 

 tion of gi-ov/th or degree of succulency in the leaf. Mr. 

 Babiugton now describes the English plant as D. gummi- 

 fer (Lam.). There was a supposed D. Gingidium intro- 

 duced into the second edition of the Manual of British 

 Botany, between D. Carota and D. maritimus, but it is 

 unnoticed in the third edition. 



491. Caucalis daucoides, vol. i. p. 457. 



Mr. Withers informs me that it gi-ows at 200 yards or 

 upwards (" 650 feet ") on Combe Down near Bath. 



492. Caucalis lattfolia, vol. i. p. 457. 



According to Mr. Motley, three specimens were foimd 



