Angll (2nd ed.) p. 115. — With. (2nd ed.) v. i. p. 283. Not of Unneus. — Liba- 
notis vulgaris , D C. l’rod. v. iv. p. 150. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. & Bot. v. iii. 
p. 312. — Macr. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 101. — Libanolis montana, Gray’s Nat. Air. 
p. 518. — Libanotis daucoides, Scop. FI. Cam. N°. 317. — Apium petreeum, sue 
montanum, album, Bauh. Hist. v. iii. pt. It. p. 105, with a figure. — Hay’s Syn. 
p. 218. — Daucus montanus, pimpinellce saxifrages hircincc folio, nostras, 
Dubriensis, Plu. Almag. p. 129.; I’hyt. t. 173. f. 1. 
Localities. — In chalky pastures; very rate. — Cambridgeshire ; Chalk-pit 
Close, Hinton ; in some old chalk-pits, on the right and left hand side of the 
road leading from Hinton towards the road to Gogmagog Hills, and on the balks. 
Not now found on Gogmagog Hills ; Reliian. — Cumberland; Keswick: Mr. 
Hutton, in B. G. Probably not found there now. as this locality is not noticed 
in Mr. Watson’s New Botanist’s Guide. — Hertfordshire ; Between St. Al- 
ban’s and Stoney-Stratford : Hudson. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root tapering, somewhat woody, bearded at the top with the 
fibrous remains of the old leaf-stalks. Stem from 1 to 3 feet high, 
upright, firm, angular and deeply furrowed, solid, smooth, not 
much branched, leafy principally in the lower part. Radical 
Leaves stalked, twice or thrice pinnate ; leaflets opposite, deeply 
and sharply cut, smooth ; the lowermost crowded, and often cross- 
ing each other. Stem-leaves alternate, twice pinnate, with pinnatiftd 
leaflets. Petioles (leaf -stalks) somewhat compressed, channelled 
between the leaflets, dilated at the base with a membranous border. 
Umbels terminal, on long, upright, furrowed stalks, convex, of 
many stout, angular, downy general rays , and still more numerous 
partial ones. Universal as well as partial involucrums of many 
strap-spear-slvaped, taper-pointed, downy leaves. Flowers crowd- 
ed, white or reddish. Germen and Styles sometimes of a purplish 
colour. Fruit oblong egg-shaped, hairy. — The terminal umbel is 
sometimes proliferous, with the rays two inches long. 
This is one of the most rare of our native plants, having been found only in 
the few stations recorded above. In Sweden, Denmaik, Germany, Switzerland, 
Austria, Carniola, and the South of France, it is mo:e frequent. The root Is 
bitterish and pungent. 
For the specimen from which the drawing for the accompanying plate was 
made, 1 am indebted to my kind friend Mr. E. Jenneii, of Lewes, Sussex ; a 
most excellent and indefatigable British Botanist. 
Oh ! were I spiritual as the wafting wind 
Which breathes its sighing music through the wood. 
Sports with the dancing leaves, and crisps the flood ; 
Then would I glide away from cares which hind 
Down unto haunts that taint the healthful mind. 
And I would sport with many a bloom and bud. 
Happiest, the farthest from the neighbourhood, 
And from the crimes and miseries of mankind. 
Then would I waft me to the cowslip’s bell ; 
And to the wild-rose should my voyage be : 
Unto the lily, vestal of the dell; 
Or daisy, the pet-child of poesy ; 
Or be, beside some mossy forest-well. 
Companion to the wood-anemone. 
It. IIoWITT. 
