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ing in Bretagne near the Mouth of the River Loire. 
This Plant was communicated to Matthiolus by a 
Profeffor of Phyficat 5 Padua (SccMatth. p.62%.). Lin- 
naeus, in the Flora Suecica , fays, that he received it 
from a Correfpondent, who gather’d it in Scania . 
Lobel , and after him John Bauhin and others, take 
notice of this Plant’s growing in the Northern Parts 
of England . It grows alfo in the Weftern and 
Southern Parts, by the Sides of Rivers, large Waters* 
and fometimes by Ponds. It grows near Bath . Dr. 
Allen mentions it growing within three Miles of 
Bridgewater . Its being produced in Wales , is the 
Occafion of this Paper. I have feen it very frequently 
by the Sides of the River Thames , both above and 
below London . I have found it likewife by the Side 
of a large Pond near the Road, in the Town of Dul- 
wich, not far North of the College , likewife by the 
Sides of a large Water near the Mills, half a Mile 
South -eaft of Dart ford in Kent. 
Lobel is the firft, who has given a fmall Figure and 
a tolerable Defcription of this Oenanthe , in his Ad- 
verfaria Tlantarum (i). He has likewife reprefented 
it in the 730th of his leones. This feems likewife 
to be the Plant deferibed by Valerius Cor dus (2), 
under the Denomination of Olfenichium ; and, by 
Dodonceus , under that of Apium fylveftre , five Thyfi 
felium (3)5 where the Defcription, Place of Growth, 
and Form of the Roots, agree exaftly with the Plant 
under 
(1) Adverfaria Plant, nov. 32 6 . 
(2) Valer. Cord. p. 149. 
(3) Bodon.. Pempt. 687. 
