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Frequent. Abundant about Plymouth, being in some places," 
as Mr, Eriggs remarks (MS.), " one of the commonest of the Um- 
hellifercs;" between Colebrook and Shaugh ; Plympton. Hedges 
in the road between Plymouth and Totnes, as far as the eighth 
mile-stone (Sir F. Drake and Mr. Hudson) : Fl. Dev.—Q,. Mount 
Edgcumbe ; Cawsand. 
" The profusion of this species in many places near Plymouth seems 
worthy of notice. Orchards and moist hedge-banks in Egg-buckland parish, 
and elsewhere within five miles of Plymouth, North and East, are so full of 
it that literally cartloads might be collected in July and August " (Briggs 
in Journ. Bot. iv. 289). — It likes a chalky or limestone soil : hence doubtless 
its abundance here. I am surprised at its not being mentioned in Stewart's 
Torquay Flora. Is it really absent from that neighbourhood ? 
In Cyb. Brit. i. 437 its South limit was stated to be in Devon. The Cor- 
nish habitats above quoted are quite on the borders of the county. I have 
no information as to the prevalence or otherwise of the plant in Cornwall. 
P. Saxlfraga (L.) — E.B. 407. — Dry pastures, rubble heaps, and 
waysides. — D. Frequent. Catdown quarries, Plymouth ; lime- 
stone quarry by Chelson meadow, and Mount Batten, near Ply- 
mouth. Near Eoborough {quondam Jump) ; Moretonhampstead : 
Briggs MS. Torquay; Marychurch, &c.; Tor. Fl. Littlehemp- 
ston: F I. Tot. AboutChudleighandTeignbridge: J.B.T.^i?. Buck- 
fastleigh!: Hore. — C- Calstock. Very plentiful in rocky and 
gravelly districts around Budock, Mabe, &c : Polytech. 1856. 
Sium Linn. Water-parsnep. 
S. latifolium (L.) — E.B. 204. — Ditches and rivers, rare in 
Britain. — D- " o." — C- In a ditch near the Priory, Bodmin : 
Mr. J. Ward (auct. Pasc. in Bot. Gaz. ii. 39). Mr. Pascoe has not 
himself seen the plant in Cornwall. Broad-leaved Water Parsnep. 
8. angustifolium {L.)—E.B. 139. — Ditches. — D- Tothill-lane, 
Plymouth. Banks of the Dart, near Totnes : F/. Dev. Marshy mea- 
dow near Torre abbey, not far from the high-road ; meadow behind 
Forde house, Newton: Tor.Fl. — C- Gwyllyn-vase, *' rather rare:" 
Polytech. 1856. Mr. Pascoe is also an authority for the occurrence 
