Localities. — On banks, by road-sides, and in woods, on a dry gravelly soil. — 
Oxfordsh. Stow Wood: Dr. SiBTiiortr. Plentiful in the same place, May 11, 
1841: W. B. — Berks; By the road-side near Maidenhead: B. G. — Bucks; 
Koad-sides, and old gravel-pits near Burnham. About Denham: B. G. — 
Derbysh. Between Ashborn and Okeover: B. G. Bretby : N. B. G. — Dorset; 
Old walls at Dorchester; very rare: B. G. — Durham; Near Gainford, in 
hedges not far from the turnpike-gate; and near Starley Bourn: N. J. Winch, 
Esq. — Essex ; Hedge near Mistley ; and on banks by the highway side as you 
go up the hill from Lexden to Colchester: B. G. Oliver’s Mount, Colchester: 
N.B.G. — Gloucestersh. On St. Vincent's Rocks; and in waste places near 
Gloucester: N.B.G. — Hants; Near Froxfield; andOld Alresford, sparingly : 
N. B.G. — Kent ; Near Lewisham, in a lane which leads down by Charlton 
Church, sparingly ; Charlton Sand-pits : B.G. Near Charlton ; and all about 
Bromley, especially towards Hayes, in profusion: Mr. W. Pampi.in, jun. in 
N.B.G. — Middlesex ; Near Slough: Ray. — Norfolk ; Between Norwich and 
Yarmouth, in many places about three miles from Norwich; and in the road to 
Coltishall; in a hedge by the windmill at Wortwell; hedges at Wroxham and 
Horstead, not uncommon : B.G. Brundall and Thorpe, by Norwich : N.B.G. 
— Northumberland ; On the banks of hedges between Anick Grange and Hex- 
ham ; and on walls near Ovingham : N. J. Winch, Esq. — Notts ; Fields between 
Radlord and Lenton : B.G. Lenton; Bestwood Paik ; and near Bulwell and 
Cuckney : N. B. G .—Shropsh. Neach Hill in Donnington parish near ShifFnal ; 
near Marton ; Shotton near Shrewsbury ; ditch banks about Beckbury, Badger, 
Ruyton, Stockton, Worfield, &c. ; and by the side of the road between Allfield 
and King-street Turnpike near BerriDgton; and near Leaton Knolls between 
Shrewsbury and Leaton Shelf: FI. Shropsh.— Somersetsh. In old quarries 
about Bath ; and between the lodge and the house at Spye Park : FI. Bath. — 
Staffordsh. Near Litchfield: Mrs. Acland. — Suffolk; Flixton ; near Dun- 
wich ; hedge on the London road, between Woodbridge and Ipswich, near 
Kesgrove ; Farnham, by the way to Aldborough, where the old road was : B.G. 
— Surrey ; Near Richmond ; by the road-side under the pales of Claremount, 
near Esher; and on Kew garden-wall : B.G. Gravelly banks between King- 
ston and Wimbledon : N.B.G. — Waruticksh. On Dorsthill near Tamworth : 
B.G. Near Allesley : Rev. A. Bloxam. — Wilts; In a wood between the 
lodge-gate of Spye Park and the House : N. B. G. — Worcestersh. Near an old 
Stone-quarry, between the Mitre Oak and Stourpourt ; on hedge-banks in the 
lanes about Kidderminster and Stourbridge ; and near Hartlebury: N.B.G. — 
Yorksh. Sowerby fields; between Thirsk and Kilvington ; at Darfield. near 
Sheffield ; on the right hand side of the road from Green Hammerton to Borough- 
bridge; and in the lane between Brompton and Catteric Bridge: FI. of Yorksh. 
Near Richmond ; Rotherham; Ripon; and Halperby: N.B.G. — SCOTLAND. 
Dumbartonshire; In the wood opposite the inn, Bowling Bay; sparingly: 
Hopkirk. 
Annual. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root tapering. Stem upright, straight, from 2 to 3 feet high, 
simple, cylindrical, solid, smooth and glaucous, except at the very 
base, which is clothed with soft deflexed hairs. Root-leaves spread- 
ing, toothed or sinuated ; hairy. Stem-leaves numerous, upright, 
oblong-arrow-shaped, generally entire, but occasionally slightly 
toothed, glaucous, quite smooth, somewhat arrow-shaped and stem- 
clasping at the base. Flowers numerous, yellowish-white, in a 
close corymb. Pods very long and slender, smooth and even, 
upright, lying close to the stem so as to conceal it, nearly cylin- 
drical ; the valves single-ribbed. Seeds about 60 in each cell, 
minute, inversely egg-shaped. 
A native of most parts of Europe, in dry exposed situations ; and 
also of N. America, from Hudson’s Bay to the Rocky Mountains, 
and as far North as lat. 64°. 
