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TilE NATURALIST. 



Abbot, I)evon, Sept. 1803." Mr. Watson suggests that this may have iDeeii 



the species recorded from Cumberland as G. nodosum, and G. angulatum-. 

 Bee Cyb. iii, 481. I have no other note of its occurrence in Britain. 



G. nodosum, Huds. This plant, which was recorded in the earlier 

 botanical works as a native of this country, has since been excluded from 

 that honour; not being known to exist in OiXij station where it is even 

 apparently indigenous^ It was recorded in the Botanisfs Guide as occuring 

 " in a hilly situation betvv^een Hatfield and Welwyn," in Hertfordshire, by 

 ^he Eev. Dr. Abbot, but subsequent search has failed to discover it in that 

 locality; See Flora Hertfordiensis p. 53. Mn Grugeon^ in a paper read 

 before the Society of Amateur Botanists, June 3rd, 1863, notes its appear- 

 ance on a sloping bank near Norbury Park, Surrey-. In Yorkshire it appears 

 to have been observed in several places, at Waterham, near Halifax, by Mr. 

 a Gibson, {N. B. G, 278.); at Leeds, by Mr. H. Denny, {Ih. 652); naturah 

 ised in a wood at Londesborough, H. Ibbotson ; and in a wood at Kirkling- 

 ton, betv^^een Bedale and Eipon, M.-. Hebblethwaite, (Supplement to Flora 

 of Yorkshire, p. 55); from the latter locality Mr. Syme states that he has 

 specimens, {E. B. ed. 3, ii 194); " subspontaneous or planted in Aske Wood, 

 Ward," (North Yorkshire, p. 215). In Scotland, it is reported from "a 

 wood near Scone Palace," in 1860, by Mr-. John Sim, (Phyt. v. 159, N.S.) 

 and it also occurs in a list of plants found in the Cumbraes, ( Fhyt. 

 663, N. S.J This species was recorded from Cumberland, but the plant there 

 found appears to have been G. angulatum, ; see next species : Mr. Watson 

 thinks that it may have been G. macrorhizwm See Cyb. Hi 401. A native 

 t)f Mexico* 



G. a7igulatum, t!urt. " Gathered a few years ago near Leathes watei*^ 

 Cumberland, pretty plentifully, but now, in consequence of the land having 

 been cultivated, it is supposed to have disappeared from that spot, though 

 probably it still grows in some adjacent situations." G. S. Gibson, in Phyt, 

 ii, 376. O.S; From this station it was originally recorded as G. nodosum, 

 and thi-s mistake may have occurred in some of the localities above given foir 

 that species. For further particulars, and for a long discussion which arose 

 Upon this plant, see Phyt. i. 556, 588, and ii. 376, 430, O.S. 



G. striatum, L. This species, like G. 7iodosum, has been placed among 

 k)ur British plants, and apparently with greater reason. " To all appearance 

 it is truly wild in Jersey, occurring in many hedges, S. Martin's, Trinity, &c." 

 Kx. HfensioWs in Phyt, ii., 6-35, N-.S. Most of the recorded localities are m 

 Jj'evo'nshir^ and Cornwall, -and it appears not impossible that the plant may 



