﻿Castle Ditch at Pleshy. Near Danbury. — Glouceslersh. Barren Hills above 

 the Avon, St. George s near Bristol. Dursley. — Hants ; Between Luccomb 

 and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. Among the rubbish and ruined foundations 

 of the Priory of Selhorne. Near Carisbrook Castle, I. W. and near. Housborn. 

 In fields, and in the church-yard at King’s Worthy near Winchester, 1834. 

 Beaulieu Abbey, and Ilordle church-yard. — Huntingtonsh. Warboys. — Lan- 

 cash. Goose Green near Dalton. — Leicestersh. Church-vards at Normanton, 

 near Loughborough, and Great Leke; fields leading from Rodely Plain to Tur- 

 caston. — Middlesex ; Uxbridge Moor. In a meadow at Breakspears. — Norfolk ; 

 Honingham. Mendham long lane by llarleston. Near the church at south- 

 wood, abundantly. Acle. lUarham — Northamptonsh. Borders of fields and 

 highways at Boughton ; Harditigstone ; and M ilton Lordships. On Slaton Hill 

 at the crossing of \\ atling Street between Northampton and Daventry. Rock- 

 ingham Forest near Kirby House.— Nottinghamsh. In great plenty in a close 

 over against Gumston, in the path-way leading to Tolleston, about a mile and a 

 halffrom Nottingham ; alsoin Bunny Lane.— Shropsh. At Fern Hill near Whit- 

 tington ; about \\ hittington Castle. — Somersets'll Doynton & Charkcombe, near 

 Bath. — Staffordsh. Tudbury Castle ; near Rudgeley. — Suffolk; Near Fram- 

 linghair, , in the road to Moodbridge, and near Parham in the same road. Bramp- 

 t<n; Rumburgh. Near Lowestoft; Gorgleston, by the old steeple; Hales- 

 worth. — Surrey ; On Riddle’s Down between Croydon and Godstone. Left 

 hand side of the road near Kwel Church. — Sussex; Generally on chalky soil, 

 but not very common. — Warwicksh. At the foot of Tam worth Castle Hill, to- 

 wards the river. Near Grafton Church on the side of the road. — Yorksh. Lund, 

 in the East Riding ; many places in the North Riding. Near Ripon, in the lane 

 close to Leeming Turnpike Gate ; near N. Allerton. Undei Scarborough Castle 

 Walls. Melsonby by Richmond; Piersbridge. — WALF.S. Anglesey; Plen- 

 tifully on several spots near Beaumares. On a small declivity near Bryn; ntar 

 Fferam Gorniog. in Pentraeth. — Denbighsh. Between Llansannan Church and 

 the river — Merionethsh. In a hedge near Harlech Castle. — SCOTLAND. 

 Near Dumfries on the road towards Caerlavrock Castle. At Dupplin near 

 Perth. Road-side between Kittochside and Carmunnock. Clyde ironworks, 

 &c. Hedges at Cask, Perthshire, and near Cullorlen. Near Inverkeithing. 

 Field by the road from Edinburgh to Dalkeith. S bank of the water of Leith, 

 &c. — IRELAND. Lambav. In Powcrscourt Demesne, just before you enter 

 the Deer-park, and in a churchyard below Kenmare. 



Perennial. — Flowers in July. 



Root fleshy, creeping. Stem annual, from 3 to 4 feet high, sim- 

 ple, upright, leafy, deeply and unequally furrowed, rough. Leaves 

 opposite, unequally pinnate, dark green, nearly smooth, with 3 or 

 4 pair of egg-spear-shaped, pointed, sharply serrated leaflets, un- 

 equal at their base. Stipulas large, leafy, cut, sometimes accom- 

 panying a pair of leaflets, as well as the main footstalk. Cymes 

 large, terminal, dense, in 3 principal branches, and those again 

 dividing into many others, hairy, and many-flowered. Flowers 

 all stalked, of a dull purplish hue. Filaments thick, upright, white, 

 with large reddish anthers. Berries globular, purplish black, with 

 3, sometimes 4, seeds. 



The whole plant has a very disagreeable smell, resembling that 

 of the common Elder, but stronger and more unpleasant. Its quali- 

 ties are violently purgative, sometimes emetic ; yet a rob of the fruit 

 is said to have been taken with safety, as far as an ounce. The 

 berries give out a violet colour, and are used to dye blue. The 

 green leaves drive away mice from granaries, and moles f o n their 

 usual haunts ; and the Silesians strew them where heir pigs lie, 

 under a persuasion that they prevent some of the diseases to which 

 those animals are liable. No cattle will eat this plant. Boiled 

 and reduced to powder it is used advantageously for scouring 

 metallic vessels. See Engl. FI. ; With. ; Mart. Mill. Diet. Src. 



1 his species is distinguished from S ambit cits nigra ( common Elder J, by the 

 cteeping root, herbaceous stem, and longer and narrower leaflets. 



