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quent year two more specimens. Jacquin’s figure represents the stem more thick, 
and shorter than I have them. The .habit of the plant appears to me better 
marked in the old figure of Gerarde.— Col. Velley’s MS. notes. 
Cicuta virosa. —The various synonyms of writers have tended to confound this 
poisonous plant. The reduced figure in the Flora Danica conveys no idea of the 
character of it; but we find a good figure in the Philosophical Transactions , from 
an accurate drawing of the celebrated Ehret, with the fructification. He has 
also drawn (Enanthe crocata , the most virulent of our vegetable poisons, and 
growing in abundance about Bath. The deleterious quality of the latter is so 
strong that I would not preserve it. Mr. Watson, who has described these 
plants in the Philosophical Transactions , says that Mr. Ehret, when he drew 
(Enanthe crocata , was affected with an universal uneasiness and vertigo.—Col. 
Velley’s MS. notes. 
Athamanta Libanotis. —Mr. Relan informs us that this plant had remained 
long sought-after without being discovered, till he became the fortunate restorer, 
A.D. 1783. It is a native of Cambridgeshire; from whence my specimen was 
brought in a very young state, and transplanted. The involucellse are equal in 
extent to the smaller umbels. See the remarks of Linnaeus on the lateral 
umbellee, Flor. Cantab. , p. 113.—Col. Velley’s MS. notes. 
Siam latifolium. — Jacquin observes that in proportion to its breadth, the leaf 
has a more narrow form than S. angustifolium. The trivial names are not 
appropriate. I am inclined to think this species would have been better dis¬ 
criminated by the term longifolium. Both species are common in several parts 
of Somersetshire.—Col. Velley’s MS. notes. 
Tilia Earopoea. —There are specimens of this tree, with the following note of 
Sir J. E. Smith :—“ From a famous tree, some of whose leaves every year have 
been peltate or hooded since the Monks of an adjoining convent were hanged 
upon it. c Credat Judceus apellas !!— vel Christianas cucullatus / The locality 
where this very wonderful tree grows is at Zedlitz, near Guttenberg, not far from 
Collin, in Bohemia.” 
Echium vulgare. —The spikes have a singular deflection in some specimens, 
which character is only observable in the upper spikes. Dr. Smith, although he 
resides at Norwich, does not describe Echium violaceum , said to grow in the 
vicinity of that place. This circumstance affords a satisfactory instance of his 
precaution, as it may be presumed he was not satisfied as to the species, and 
therefore has not introduced it on the. authority of another.—Col. Velley’s MS. 
notes. 
Agrostis alba. —This is so various a Grass that Mr. Knapp has called it 
mutabilis; what is this but a similar term for Mr. Hudson’s polymorpha ? 
Leers describes it “ verticillis densis”an& having peduncles suberect and^flexuose. 
