Stour: Dr. Pulteney— A bout Spetisbury : Dr. Maton.— Durham ; In a 
field opposite Egleston : Rev. J. Harridan. Near Dai lington : Mr. Robson. 
— Gloucestersh. In the meadow between the Church and the Medicinal Spring 
at Cheltenham : Dr. Withering. About Painswick : Mr. O. Roberts. — 
Hampsh. In a wood at Appleshaw: Mr. BonROR Near Eiphook : Mr. H. 
Bar rut. — Herefordsh. About the noith and centre of the county: Mr. Dun- 
ruMH.— Lancash. A little below Newby Jlridge, on the left hand side of the 
road to Ulverstone : Mr. J. Woods jun. — Northamptonsh . In woods at Cran- 
sley, and in a meadow at King’s Thorp: Morton.— Notts ; In Nottingham 
meadows, and about Trent Bridge: Dr. Deerinc.— Shropsh. Castle Fields, 
four miles from Oswestry on the Welch Pool road ; Hope Mead near Bishop’s 
Castle; near Cavnbam Court, Ludlow: Dr. Evans. About Wellington and 
Hales Owen: Dr. Withering. In a field opposite Aston, the seat of W. 
Lloyd, Esq. by Oswestry : Rev. J. Daviis. Sweeney near Oswestry : Mr. H. 
Barrett. — Somersetsh. Meadows between Bath and Bristol: Mr. Dvrn. 
Near Farley Castle, and in the fields about Bishop’s Norton, abundantly : Mr. 
T. F. Forster, jun. About Keynham, W hitchurch, Queen’s Charlton, and 
Pensford: Dr. Withering. In low moist pastures, and also in woods on the 
upper part of the hills about Bail) : Rev. C. C. Baeington. — Stuffordsh. In 
Weston Park: Sir J. E. Smith. By the Trent, near Burton : Mrs. Acland, 
in Purt Mid. FI. — Suffolk ; At Little Stonham: Mrs. Cobbold. Laxfield : 
Mr. Davy. — Great Barton, and Hawsted : Sir T. G. Cui.lum. About Soham, 
Easton, & c.: Rev. G. Crabbe. Near Bury: Mr. Woodward. Pastures at 
Cretiugham, a most noxious weed : Mr. Mouse. Near Bungay, both purple 
and white flowered varieties in abundance: Mr. D Stock, in Loud. Mag. of 
Nat. Hist. v. ii. p.387. — Wurwicksh. Near Packington : Countess of Ayles- 
ford. Harford, Norhrooke, &c.: Mr. W. G. Perry. White flowered va- 
riety at Whitacre: Rev. W 7 . T. Brie. Near Long Compton: Miss Arme- 
■i hiding. — Wilts; About Great Bedwyn : W. Barti.ett, Ksq. — Worcestersh. 
About Great Comberton, Great Malvern, and many other places in the county : 
N ash. On the banks of the Severn, near W orcester, both purple and white 
flowered varieties : Mr. E. Lfes, in Loud. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 161. — 
Yorksh. Near Fen y Bridge, Knaresborough, and South Dalton: Mr. Tees* 
dalf. About Ripon: Mr. Brunton. At Thivkleby: Rev. Archdeacon 
PirnsoN. Limestone pastures about Kippax, andLedslon; about Apperley 
Bridge, in Airdale, on clay : Rev. W. Wood. At Copgrove: Rev. J. Dalton. 
River side at Fryston : Mr. A. Aikin. Near Rotherham : Mr. L. Langley, 
in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. ii. p 269. Near Richmond. L. E. O. ibid. p. 168. 
— WALES. Flintsh. Under a beech-tree between Upper l.ecswood House, 
and the river near Mold: Mr. Griffith. — SCOTLAND. At Alloa, about 
the sealof Air. Erskine: Rev. J. Lichifoot. 
Perennial. — Flowers in September and October. 
Bulb solid, resembling that of a tulip, furrowed on one side. 
Stem none. Leaves sessile, sheathing, radical, strap-spear-shaped, 
blunt, entire, dark green, smooth, a foot or more long, and from 1 to 
2 inches broad. Flowers several, rising from the root, and ap- 
pearing in succession, pale purple, sometimes white ; tube from 
5 or 6 to 8 or 10 inches long, white, and surrounded at the base 
by 2 or 3 membranous sheath’-. Limb cut into 6, somewhat un- 
equal, oblong, upright, concave segments. Germen at the base of 
the bulb, inclosed in one common sheath, and accompanied by the 
rudiments of the future leaves. Styles as long as the stamens, 
thread-shaped, reaching nearly to the base of the tube. Stiymas 
linear, recurved, channelled, downy. Fruit oval, formed of the 
3 inflated, many-seeded Capsules. Seeds round, whitish, polished. 
The flowers appear in September, the leaves and fruit not till the 
Spring following §. 
A very curious variety of this species (var. 8. floribus serotinis, Eng. FI.) 
was found in a meadow near Devizes, Wilts, by Mr. Salmon, about the year 
1800, and was, in 1806, figured in the 20th volume of English Botany, 1. 1432. 
Plant acrid and poisonous, and farmers should be cautious how they turn 
cattle into pastures where it grows. Its properties are said to be similar to those 
of the officinal squill, and it is supposed to form a principal ingredient in the 
famous Gout medicine, commonly called Eau Medicinale . See W'ith. Bot. 
Arr. 7th ed. v. ii. pp. 461, 462. 
