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VII. Next field to Boobies Bam, also under the hedge of a lane to Hamp- 

 stead; Ger. 142. [Ditch on ye back of Kentish Town ; Newton MSS.'\ 

 [Marylebone Fields, 1817; Herh. G. # i?.] [By the ponds, Highgate ; 

 Herh. Hardw.] Field bet. Swiss Cottage and Hampstead, 1846 ; 

 Morris {v. s.). 

 First record: Gerarde, 1597- 



ENDYMION, Dwnort. 



677. E. nutans, Bum. Scilla nutans, Sm. (Syme). Hyacinthus non- 

 ■Bcriptus, L. (L. Cat.). Blue-hell.'^ Wild Hyacinth. 



Hyacinthus (Turn.). H. vidg. Ang. et Bdg. (Johns.). H. anglicus, Ger. 



em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 460. Curt. F. L. f. 2. 



Woods and shady places ; rather common. P. April, May. 

 I. Harefield Common ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 43. Ruislip Wood. Pinner. 



III. Harrow Grove, Eoxeth, &c. ; Melv. 78. Bet. Pinner and Harrow, 



abundant. 



IV. Hampstead Heath! ; Johns. Eric. Football Field, Harrow; Melv. 78. 



Bentley Priory. Bishop's and Turner's Woods. 

 V. Muche aboute Sion ; Turn. Names. 



VI. Hadley ! ; Warren. Whetstone. Winchmore Hill Wood. 

 VII. Ken Wood. Hornsey Wood. 



First record : Turner, 1548 ; also first as a British plant. Noticed with 

 white flowers in many places ; with rose-coloured flowers (V.) in Osterley 

 Park ; Masters. Probably absent from the dry south-west part of 

 Middlesex. 



Muscari racemosum, BC. M. negleetum, Giiss. ? (Bab.). Starch Hyacinth. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 461 ; iii. 514. Syme E. B. ix. 1. 1529. II. Hampton Court, 

 perhaps escaped from the palace ; Coop. Supp. 12. 



COLCHICACE^. 

 COLCHICUM, Linn. 



678. C. autumnale, L. Meadow Saffron. 



C. commune (R. Syn. iii.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 471 ; iii. 515. Syme E. B. ix. tt. 1544-45. " 



Meadows ; very rare. P. September. 

 VI. In Mr. Moor's meadow that comes down to the great fish-pond near 

 his house at Suuthgate, Mr. J. Sherard ; B. Syn. iii. 373. Forty 

 Hill, Enfield Chase, W. Cidlen ; Cooper, 116. 

 First record : J. Sherard, 1724. We havenot seen any specimens. 



* Called IfarebeU by all British botanists, previous to Smith ; but 425 usually now 

 receives that name in England. 



