pant herbage amongst which it usually grows, and has a
very beautiful appearance from the dense masses of flowering
racemes, closely twining upon each other, with which
its stems are terminated. The stem is round, striated,
branched, and nearly smooth; the leaves are alternate,
stalked, and triangularly cordate ; the ochreae rather short
and acute; the racemes axillary and terminal, lax and elongated
; the flowers subverticil late, upon long stalks which
are jointed at about their middle, and when in fruit much
elongated and reflexed; the fruit is triquetrous with very
concave faces, oblong, quite smooth and shining, covered
by the very broadly winged persistent enlarged perianth
which is shorter than its stalk.
This plant was discovered by Mr. J. A. Hankey, in a wood
at Wimbledon, and I noticed it myself in September last,
(1836), in great plenty in a thicket at about one mile west
of Keynsham, Somerset, exactly upon the line of the Great
Western Railway. . The specimen figured was communicated
in the same year by Mr. Luxford, from near Ryegate,
on the right hand side of the road to M^altham Mill.