230 AMARANTHACE^. 



noticed about London by Eand ; Budd. MSS. A monstrosity with a 

 paniculate inflorescence is called the Besom Plantain, P. latifol. spiralis 

 (Pet.), P. latifol. spica multiplici sparsa, C. B. (Budd.), and P. major 

 panimila sparsa, J. B. (E. Syn. iii.). Doody found it in Enfield Marsh ; 

 D-ill. in B. Syn. iii. 314 ; there are specimens in Herb. Pet. cU. f. 24 ; 

 and we have seen examples from Shepherd's Bush collected in 1848 

 by Dr. Morris. It is well figured in Petiver's H. B. Cat. iv. fig. 5. (See 

 Masters' Vegetable Teratology, pp. 108-111.) 



[P. Psyllium, L. About Chelsea Waterworks, Miller's Gard. Diet. ; 

 Oullum, 69.] 



LITTORELLA, Linn. 

 559. 7i. lacustrls, L. 



■ Plantago palustris gramineo fol. monanthos parisiense, Inst. B. H. 



(Blackst.). Bay's Long-threaded Toad-grass (Pet.). Plantago uniflora 

 (Huds.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 312 ; iii. 496. Syme E. B. vii. t. 1169. 

 Wet places on heaths ; very rare. . P. June, July. 

 I. In bogs on Harefield Common, abundantly ; Blackst. Fasc. 78. 

 III. Hounslow Heath; Pet. Cone. Gram. 218. Near Whitton; Hicds.i..5S. 

 Particularly in the ditch on the south side of Whitton Gardens, Sir 

 Jos. Banks ; B. G. 412. Ashford Common ; Curt. F. L. f. 3 (under 

 Gentuncwlus). 



■ First record : Peiiver, 1716; last. Banks, 1805. Perhaps extinct. 



AMARANTHACE^. 



AMARANTHUS, Linn. 



A.Blitum, i. Cyb.Br. ii. 313. Syme E. B. vii. t. 1177. VII. Gathered 

 once at Stoke Newington by Mr. J. Woods, jun. ; B. G. 412. Tottenham, 

 A. A. ; Herb. Mus. Brit. Near Walham Green, in the footway to Hell- 

 brook Common, E. F. ; Herb. Mus. Brit, and Herb. Linn. Soc. Parson's 

 Green, on rubbish heaps by the roadside ; Pa^nplin. Ibid., 1864; Britten, 

 Little Chelsea ; Cole. Very imperfectly naturahsed. 



S60. *A. retroflexus, L. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 313. Eeich. Ic. Crit. v. 668. 

 Rubbish heaps and roadsides ; rare. A. August, September. 

 II. By the towing-path close by Hampton Court, a few plants. 

 III. Waste ground by the railway, Twickenham, two plants. 

 VII. A common weed in many gardens near London ; Mart. Mill. Diet. 

 About Chelsea ; Irv. H. B. P. 390. Camden Town. Hackney Wick, 

 a few plants. 

 ■ First record: T. Martyn, about 1800. A hardier species than A. Blitum, 

 , and apparently becoming completely naturalised. 



