FI. of Oxf. p. 85. — Irv. Lond. FI. p. 233. — Tordylium vulgaris, semine piano, 
tlore ex rubente albo, Moris, v. iii. p. 316. sect. 9. t. 16. f. 1. — Tordylium, Riv. 
Pcntap. lrr. t. 1. — Heracleum Tordylium, Spreng. Sp. Urab. 49. — Seseli creti- 
cum majus, Bauli. Pin. p. 161. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 1050. — Caucalis maxima, 
Sphondylii aculeato semine, Bauh. Pin. p. 152. — Caucalis major, semine minus 
pulchro hirsuto, Bauh. Hist. v. iii. pt. u. p. 85, with a figure. 
Localities.— On banks and waste ground; very rare. — Oxfordshire ; Under 
the hedge on the north side of the Parks: Dr. SiimiORr; 1794. It grew there 
up to 1819, and also under the trees on the west side of the Parks, but it has since 
disappeared from both these stations. It grew also on a bank beyond Jericho, 
about a quarter of a mile N. W. of the Observatory, where it was first pointed 
out to me by the late Mr. H. Hinton, about 1814, but that locality is now 
built on : W. B. — Bucks ; Hedges near Eton- wick, in the greatest abundance : 
Mr. Gotoeed. — Herts ; In a hedge about halfamile from Eton: Mt.Gotobed ; 
1803. — Middlesex; About London: Morison. 
Annual. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root tapering, with many slender, almost horizontal, slightly 
branched fibres. Stem from 2 to 4 feet high, upright, branched, 
leafy, hollow, somewhat flexuose, furrowed, rough with small bristly 
hairs, which point downwards. Leaves unequally pinnate, of a 
darker green than the stem, clothed with fine, close, bristly hairs, 
all directed towards the point; leaflets of the lowermost leaves 
egg-shaped ; of the rest spear-shaped, narrow ; all coarsely ser- 
rated, and sometimes deeply notched, single-ribbed, veiny ; the 
odd one largest. Petioles somewhat dilated at the lower part, often 
hairy. Umbels rather small, dense, bristly. Partial Umbels about 
nine. General Involucrum of about five slender, strap-shaped, 
bristly, spreading leaves, shorter than the umbel ; partial involu- 
crum of 5 awl-shaped leaves, as long as the umbellule, the two 
inner leaflets smaller. Teeth of the Calyx very unequal. Flowers 
white or rose-coloured, more or less radiant, the outermost petal 
with equal lobes, the two next with very unequal ones. Fruit 
(see fig. 4.) nearly circular ; externally bristly ; the disk a little 
convex, marked with 4 brown longitudinal lines ; the border pale, 
tumid, wrinkled, and beset with direct bristles; the inside of each 
carpel, with the border, quite smooth, with 2 close, parallel, brown 
lines, in the middle (see fig- 5). Channels with only one vitta in 
each. 
The specimen from which the drawing was made for the ac- 
companying plate, was raised in the Oxford Garden in 1840, from 
seeds kindly communicated to me by Mr. W. I'amplin, jun. of 
Soho Square, London. 
