Oxf. p. 75. — Ferry’s PI. Varvic. Sel. p. 25. — Bat). Fi. Bath. pp. 19 and 79. ; Prim. 
FI. Sam. p. 46. — Irv. Lond. FI. p. 233. — Baines’ FI. of Yorksh. p. 44. — Caucalis 
leptcphylla, Huds. FI. Angl. (1st ed.) p. 99; not of Linnaeus. — Caucalis te.nui- 
folia, flosculis subrubentibus , Ray’s Syn. p. 219. — Conium Royeni, Linn. Sp. 
PI. p. 350. — Echinophoru tertia leptophyllon purpurea, Column. Ecphr. p. 
96. t. 97. f. 2. 
Localities. — I n corn-fields, on a chalky soil. — Oxfordsh. Between Middle- 
ton Stony and Bucknel : Ur. Nibthorr.— Berks ; Near Reading: Mr. Fardon. 
— Beds ; Oakley W est Field, discovered by Mr. James Payne, a discerning 
Herbalist of that village : Rev. C. Abbot. — Cambridyesh. Among the wheat, 
on the left-hand side of the road leading from Cambridge to Gogmagog Hills, 
between the second and third milestone ; Kingston; Devil’s Ditch ; Anglesey: 
Rev. R. Hf.uian. Very scarce, having only been found, of late years, near 
Swaffham Prior and Burnwell : C. C. Babington, in N. B. G. — Durham ; in 
fields on Fulwell Hills near Sunderland, its most northern locality. Fields near 
Whitburn: N. J. Winch, Esq. In corn-fields near Norton: J. Hogg, Esq. — 
Kent; About Hartford: Mr. Woods, jun. — Lincolnsh, Carlby, between Stam- 
ford and Bonin : Mr. Woodward. — Norfolk; Corn-fields at Marham: Mr. 
Crow. — Northamptonsh. Near a limestone-pit at Densbanger, copiously : Hist. 
— Sometsetsh. Corn-fields about Charlton Adam, Somerton: Dr. G abrek. 
Odd Down or Burnt-house Gate, in corn : Dr. Davies. Corn-fields on Kings- 
down : Mr. C. E. Broome. — Suffolk; Great Saxham, near Bury: Sir T. G. 
CitLLi'M. Newmarket: N.J. Winch, Esq. — Surrey; Among the corn by the 
side of the road from Banstead to Dorking: Martyn. Near Boxhtll : Mr. J. 
Woods, jun. In corn-fields on the south side of the Chalk Downs about two 
miles west of Dorking, above Westcote-street : Mr. E. Jenner. — Warwicksh. 
Alne Hills in corn-fields : Rufford. Fields about Drayton Bushes: T. Bur- 
ton, Esq. — Yorksh. Corn-fields near Mahon, and 1 horp Arch: Teesdale. 
Above Barton, and Appleton near Malton: Bev. Archdeacon Pierson. Near 
Ripon: Mr. Bhunton. Ploughing fields near Tbornborough Moor, between 
the villages of Thornborough and I anfield : Rev. J. Dalton. Ktppax ; Roche 
Abbey; Knaresbro’; Hildenley Wood; and near Whitwell: Mr. Baines. 
Annual — Flowers in June. 
Root small, tapering. Stem, from 6 inches to a foot or 18 in- 
ches high, deeply furrowed, nearly smooth, except the joints, which 
are hairy. Leaves extremely elegant, on short membranous-edged 
foot-stalks ; 3-cleft at the base, then thrice compounded, clothed 
more or less with very narrow, deep-green segments ; nearly smooth 
on the upper surface, the lower with scattered, white, bristly hairs. 
Umbel of 3 or 4 stout, 4-cornered, spreading rays, without an in- 
volucrum, or with rarely a small solitary bractea. Umbellules 
of 2 or 4 fertile flowers, with several sterile ones. Involucels of 
from 3 to 5 spear-shaped, spreading leaves, not membranous. Cahjx 
very obvious. Petals generally reddish, but slightly radiant (see 
fig. 1). Fruit large, oblong, very prickly, with long, whitish, 
hooked bristles, in distinct rows ; rarely more than three fruits in 
each umbellule attain perfection. 
This is alow bushy plant, a native of Middle and South Europe, even to 
'l auiia, ( an, asus, and Persia, in corn-fields on a chalky soil. It appears not to 
have been found in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. 
For the specimen from which the drawing for the accompanying plate was 
made, 1 am indebted to my kind friend Mr. E Jenner, of Lewes, Sussex. 
