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Withering. Unless it suffer very material alteration from culture, which, 
I understand it does not, it appears to me to have as clear a right to 
be considered a species as any in our Flora.” 
The better to illustrate this plant we offer a sketch in which the general 
habit, and precise shape of the leaves, are accurately delineated. 
Cornish Coast Carrot. (Welsh : Moronyn arfor. E.) Dr. Withering first 
gathered this plant on the western coast of Cornwall, and at his request 
the Rev. J. T. Thompson, from whose observations the above description 
is chiefly supplied, paid particular attention to it. E.) Rocks on the 
south-west coast. (About Penzance. At Tintagel Castle; the Lizard, 
and elsewhere. Mr. E. Forster, jun. and Castle Treryn. Mr. D. Turner. 
Sea coast south of Sunderland. Mr. Winch. This station, Mr. Winch has 
since informed me, refers only to a stunted var. of D. Carota. The Rev. 
Hugh Davies observed a plant which he conceived to be D. maritimus , 
in the clefts of steep rocks, and somewhat out of reach, at Porth Dafarch, 
Anglesey. E.) A. July—Aug. 
BU'NIUM.* Bloss . uniform: Umbel crowded: Seeds nearly 
cylindrical, striated, thicker towards the end : Cal. small, 
acute, unequal. E.) 
B. flexuo'sum. Involucrum from one to three leaves, deciduous .* 
stem leafless at the base, tapering downwards, zigzag: styles 
permanent: (fruit somewhat beaked. E.) 
Curt. 273—(E. Bot. 988. E .) — Ger. Em. 1064. 1 —Tourn. 161. 2. 
Root tuberous. Stem smooth, scored, but little branched. Leaves doubly 
winged ; segments very slender, and tapering to a point. Involucrum 
seldom of more than one or two slender leaves, but in most instances 
altogether wanting, and after examining above fifty plants growing in dif¬ 
ferent soils both in woods and open pastures, I could never find more 
than one with any general fence after the blossoms were opened. Involu- 
cellum mostly shorter than the umbellule, of three or four very small 
spear-shaped leaves. Umbel , spokes eight to twelve. Umbellule , spokes 
about sixteen. Styles, at first close, afterwards wide apart, but never 
reflexed. Flowers white. 
(The true B. Bulbocastanum. FI. Dan. 220. Ger. Em. 1064.2. which is Bui- 
bocastanum majus of Bauhin, but not of Gouan, may, as Smith observes, 
(should it ever be found in Britain), be infallibly discriminated “by its 
shorter, more abrupt fruit, and reflexed styles.” It was said to have 
been discovered in Kensington Gardens, but Ray and Johnson acknow¬ 
ledge they only knew one species, which was probably B.jlexuosum. E.) 
The real Bulbo-castanum, (q. d. chestnut-root), of a larger size than ours, 
is called by the Italians Pancaseole, a name signifying bread and cheese, 
the deficiency of which it supplies either raw or boiled. E.) 
Common Earth-nut. Kipper Pig Hawk or Jur-nut. Lesser Pig¬ 
nut. (Irish: Currlan. Welsh: Bywi; Cylor; Cneuny ddaer. Gaelic: 
Braonan-backuill. E.) B. Bulbocastanum. (Huds. Lightf. Relh. Curt. 
Hook. Grev. B. Jlexuosum. With. Sibth. Hull. Abbot. Sm. E.) 
Meadows, pastures, orchards, and woods. P. May—Jime.t 
* (Possibly from Qovi/og, a hill, or elevated spot; the plant loving dry situations. E.) 
t 1 h e roots, eaten either raw, boiled, or roasted, are little inferior to chesnuts, and 
would be an agreeable addition to our winter desserts. (In Sweden they constitute an 
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