Corn-fields in St. Giles’s Fields, and on Bullington Green, near Oxford. Be- 
tween Church Handborough and the Mill : W. B. Near Northmore: Mr. H. 
B.rnnETT. Kirtlington fields, and fields about Cottisford : G. Woodward, Esq. 
Surgeon. Bicester*. — Berks; Corn-fields between Ferry Hinksey and Cumnor 
Hurst: W. B. — Bedfordshire ; Barton Hill, and Woburn: Rev. C. Abbot. — 
Cambridgeshire; Gogmagog Hills, bv the lower road; Stapleford; Tever- 
sham ; and between Quey Church and Bottisham: Rev. R. R run an. Abun- 
dant about Swoffham: Rev. Professor Henslow. — Dorsetshire ; On Langton 
Farm, near Blandford ; and between Spetisburv and Aimer : Dr. Pui.teney. — 
Essex; About Ugly, and Newport: Mr. E. Forster, jun. Near Purfleet: 
Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. Near Broomfield : J. G. in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. iv. 
p.446 — Kent; Between Greenhilhe and Stone, in a field by the road; and 
near Lewisham: Dr. Martyn. About Dartford : Mr. J. Woods, jun. — 
About Cobham: Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. — Lincolnshire ; Carlby, between 
Stamford and Bourn: Mr. Woodward — Middlesex; Near the Mill at Hare- 
field: Mr. Bi.ackstone. — Norfolk; Corn-fields at Marham: Mr. Woodward. 
— Suffolk; Wheat-fields at Saxham : Sir T. G. Cullum. — Surrey; Leather- 
head and Sutton : Dr. Martyn. Amongst the corn on Epsom Downs: Mr. 
T. F. Forster, jun. Near Box-hill: Mr. J. Woods, jun. Near Guildford: 
Mr. W. A. Delamotte. — Sussex ; Near the Rock at Uckfield, by the footpath 
to Pilt Down: Mr. Borrer. Near Tunbridge Wells: Mr. Forster. — 
Warwickshire ; Bidford and Wootton, near Warwick: Rev. W. T. Bree, in 
Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. iii p. 163. Bidford, Haslor, and Grafton : Mr. Pur- 
ton. — Wilts ; Near Amesbury, on Salisbury Plain, plentiful : Dr. Withering, 
and E. Duke, F.sq. — Worcestershire ; Badsey and Bretforton : Mr. Piirton. — 
Yorkshire; Near Malton, and Slingsby : Mr. Teesdai.e. Near Copgrove : 
Bev. J. Dalton. Near Ripon : Mr. Bruxtov. About Barton: Rev. Arch- 
deacon Pierson. Near Rotherham: Mr. L. Langley, in Loud. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. v. ii. p. 269. 
Annual. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root small, tapering, and fibrous. Stem, from one to two feet, 
or two feet and a half high, slightly zigzag, upright, round, hollow, 
smooth, leafy, branched alternately in the upper part, and some- 
what corymbose, very hard and rigid, and often of a reddish-purple 
colour. Leaves alternate, remarkably perfoliate, broadly egg-shaped, 
quite entire, smooth, bluish green, sometimes purplish at the mar- 
gin, tipped with a minute awn or spine, principal veins radiating 
from their union with the stem. Umbels terminal, compound, soli- 
tary, of about 6 general rays, and rather more very short partial 
ones. General involucrum none. Partial one of from 3 to 5 large, 
egg-shaped, ribbed, yellowish-green, bristly pointed leaves. Flowers 
yellow. Petals very short, and rolled inwards. Seeds ( Carpella 
of Hooker and Lindley) oblong, flattish on one side, convex on 
the other, with 5 prominent, bordered ribs. — This plant is reckoned 
among the vulnerary herbs, in old Herbals. 
* On the 18th instant (January, 1834) Mr. Woodward, who is an excellent 
British Botanist, was so kind as to forward to me, from Bicester, a few bulbs 
(one of them in flower) of Lucojum vernum ; which he obtained from a brake 
near the Catholic Chapel, Hethe, Oxfordshire ; where, he informs me, it grows 
in immense quantities, and has been known to grow there for more than a cen- 
tury, no house nor village being near the spot. This plant is a native of Italy, 
the south of France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, but it has never before 
been found wild in Britain. It has been cultivated in this country ever since 
the time of Gerarde (1596), yet it is at this time a rare plant in our gardens. 
That it should have become naturalized in such quantity in the place above 
mentioned, seems rather an extraordinary circumstance. 
