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along each e;lge. Tliis tongue-shaped lobe is usually 
entire, but sometimes is divided into two ; the leaf- 
like lobe, also, though in general whole, is occasionally 
deeply cleft at the top. 
It is usually found in meadows and moist pastures; 
but we have also found it in Hampshire, in an open 
copse, in an old chalk-pit at Abbot's Barton, near Win 
Chester. 
In England it has been found, also, at Middleton-one- 
row, Durham; Round House, near Richmond, York- 
shire; West Felton, Shropshire; behind Heawood Hall, 
near Alderley, Cheshire ; near Warrington, Lancashire; 
near Braimston, Leicestershire; Heanor and Love 
Lane, near Derby, Derbyshire ; Colwick, Nottingham- 
shire; Broadmoor, near Birmingham; Pottery Car; 
near Blymhill, Staffordshire; near Bristol; at the side 
of a pond on Wike Farm, Sion Lane, Isleworth ; near 
the ladder- stile, Osterley Park, near Brentford, Mid- 
dlesex ; at Beddington, near Bungay, and Meltingham 
Castle, Suffolk ; four miles south of Dorking, Surrey; 
meadows of Longleat, Wilts; about Slateford, near 
Barnstaple, Devon ; and in various parts of Norfolk, 
Herts, Kent, and Hants. 
In Scotland, in Dalmeney Woods, near Edinburgh; 
in Orkney ; at Balmuto ; and at Carlowrie. 
In Wales, near Wrexham ; and on the lawn of 
the Observatory, Duusink, and many other parts of 
Ireland. 
The first writer mentioning it as an English plant 
is Dr. William Turner, who, in the third part of his 
