copse near VVootton Heath ; and under hedges, bushes, &c. on the left hand 
side of the road just before you come to Bagley Wood, going from Oxford to 
Abingdon: W. B. Near Sandhurst: Mr. W. A. Dei.amotte. — Bedfordsh. 
Aspley, Renhold, and Clapham : Rev. 0. Abbot. — Cambridgesh. About 
Chesterton, and Shalford: Rev. R. Relhan. — Devon. Chudleigh, Ashburton, 
Totness, and Lustleigh : road-side between Manatou and North Bovey ; Withe- 
combe Wood, near Exmouth; Tavistock, ic.: FI. Dev. — Hampsh. Near Boar- 
hunt: Rev. S. Palmer, in Mag. Nat. Hist. — Kent ; About Tenlerden : Mr. 
W. Pamplin, jun. In Charlton \\ ood, near London: Mr. W. Curtis. — 
Leicestersh Ulvescroft Priory, near Charnwood Forest: Rev. A Bloxham. in 
Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 167. — Shropsh. Dingles, near Hord’s Park: Mr. 
Puri on. — Somersetsh. Frequent about Bath: Rev. C. C. Babington. — War- 
iviclcsk. Alcester Mill, in the rough ground by the flood-gates : Mr. Purton. 
In the wood on the S. W. side of the pool at Edgbaston, plentiful ; and in the 
woods to the N. of Aston Park, near Birmingham: Dr. Withering. Grove 
at Wootton Grange, &c. not rare : Mr. W. G. Perry. — Wilts; About Great 
Bedwyn : W. Bartlett, Esq.— SCOTLAND. In the Hermitage : Dr. Par- 
sons, in Lightf. FI. Scot. Near the top of Craig-chailliach, Breadelbane : 
Mr. Stuart, ibid. Frequent about Glasgow, in woods, and about the roots of 
hedges: Mr. Hopkirk, in Hook. FI. Scot. Banks of the Helvin, Glasgow : Mr. 
Murray, ibid. Moist woods opposite the Bleachfield, Rosslyn : Mr. Neill, 
in Grev. FI. Edin. Wood near the Paper-Mill, at Colinton: Mr. D. Stuart, 
ibid. Between Lasswade and Rosslyn : Mr. Arnott, ibid. Braid Burn ; bank 
opposite Melville Castle: Dr. Graham, ibid. Arniston Woods, and at Craig- 
lockhart, but rare: Dr. Greville, ibid. 
Perennial. — Flowers in April and May. 
Root white, fleshy, creeping, with tooth-like scales. Stems soli- 
tary, upright, simple, and nearly square, 3 or 4 inches high. Root- 
leaves 2 or 3, on long foot-stalks, biternate (twice ternate), lobed 
and cut, smooth and shining ; segments or lobes egg-shaped, with a 
short point. Stem-leaves 2, simply ternate, opposite, smaller than 
the root-leaves, and on short stalks. Flowers pale yellowish-green, 
forming a round head, which is composed of 5 flowers, one of which 
is terminal, with a 2-cleft calyx, a 4-cleft corolla, 8 stamens, and 
4 pistils ; 4 are lateral, with a 3-cleft calyx, a 5-cleft corolla, 
10 stamens, and 5 pistils. Fruit a berry, becoming pulpy as it 
ripens. 
This is an unobtrusive little plant, flowering as early as the latter 
end of March, or the beginning of April, and ripening its berries in 
May, soon after which its leaves decay. It delights to grow in moist 
shady places in woods, and similar situations ; a circumstance which 
has not escaped the notice of the poet. 
“ Adoxa loves the greenwood shade ; 
There, waving through the verdant glade. 
Her scented seed she strews.” 
The flowers have a musky smell in the evening, or early in the 
morning while moist with dew ; and hence, by some, called Musk 
Crowfoot. 
The cryptogamic Botanist will find two interesting little parasites 
on the leaves and stems of this plant in the vicinity of Oxford, viz. 
Puccinia Adoxa of Decandolle, and JEcidium albescens, of Dr. 
Greville ; the latter is a beautiful little plant, remarkable for its 
general white aspect, which partly arises from the surface of the leaf 
being blistered for some distance round the plant. See Grev. FL 
Edin. pp. 432 & 444. 
