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MEMORIALS OF RAY ; 



purplish colour, with striae or long lines all along the 

 length of the flower, of a deeper purple. It hath some 

 stamina, and a stylus, which ends in two, and sometimes 

 in three, globuli. The root is like that of the ordinary 

 Orohanche, in the lesser it more imitates a bulbe, and 

 hath a few fibres or stringy roots at the bases or sedes of 

 it; the root of the greater is oblong. [This plant 

 requires examination ; it may be 0. harhata?^ Upon 

 the marsh, in the moist places, I observed creeping upon 

 the ground a small umbelliferous plant, the leaf some- 

 what like to one sort of (Enanthe ; the flowers very small, 

 and consisting of five little white pointed leaves; the 

 umbell, for the most part, had but two spokes of flowers, 

 in some three, but this perhaps may be imputed to the 

 poverty of the plant ; the seeds striate, a little compressed, 

 and but short ; the stalk hollow, the root stringy. This 

 is the water parsnip, though it may perhaps be referred 

 to the (Enanthe [Helosciadium inundatum, Koch. ?] On 

 the top of the hill, by the Torr, we found a kind of Vicia, 

 with a long white flower [Vicia hyhrida. Linn.] Like- 

 wise, in the meadows hereabout, we found in great plenty 

 a kind of Jacea, in the leaf exactly like to the ni^ra 

 vulgaris, in the flower to the Jacea major segetum 

 \Centaurea nigra, with a row of marginal radiant florets. 

 It is the plant noticed in Bab. Man. (p. 169,) as differ- 

 ing in some respects from the true C. nigra j3. radiata^ 

 We saw Joseph of Arimathea's tomb and chapel at the 

 end of the church, also the abbot's kitchen, which is yet 

 standing, all built of freestone, without any timber in it, 

 at the bottom fom' square, and in each corner a chimney, 

 and the top is cupola' d up with one round arch, like a 

 chapter "house, and on the top a stone lanthorn, to convey 

 away superfluous smoke. Mr. Stroud's barn, built all of 

 freestone, vn.th buttresses like a chapel, deserves to be 

 remembered. The stump of the old Christmas thorn is 

 now quite dead and gone, but they have several inocu- 

 lated plants of it about the town. Mr. Pester, a mer- 

 chant of Bristol, now owns the ruins of the Abbey of 

 Glastonbury. 



