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Kippen-nut, he remarks : " Called in Scotland ' Knapperts,' 

 from knap or knob, and urt, wort, the heath-pea, Vicia 

 Orobus" But has Orobus these enlarged tubers or knobs ? 

 Bentham says, " root somewhat creeping," the allied European 

 V. cassubica, L, has long creeping stolons. Not any of my 

 numerous specimens of Orobus has roots attached. 



It is also called " wood bitter vetch," but certainly is 

 not confined to woods ; in Cornwall it grows in " Moors in 

 rough furzy ground " : and in Ireland on " basaltic rocks " 2 

 (Stewart, sp.) in Antrim. In Bishop Nicolson's M.S., i69<D, 3 

 he calls it "nostrotibus, Horse-pease," the plant is still 

 existent at Blencairn where he recorded it. 



The first record for the species in Great Britain is 

 " Orobus sylvaticus nostras. At Bigglesly (Gainbledy) in 

 the way to Pereth (Penrith) in Cumberland." Ray, " Cat. PI. 

 Angl." (1670), 339, Clarke, " First Rec. Brit. PI." (1900), p. 

 42. 



PYROLA SECUNDA, LINN. 

 ("SP. PL," 1753, 396.) 



By ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



Rauieschia secundiflora, Opiz., " Seznam," 1852. 



R. scainda, Garcke, " Fl. N. and M. Deutsch." (i 858), 



222. 



Actinocyclns secundus, Klotzsch. " Monatsb. Akad. Berlin " 



(1857), 14- 



Alsoganum (section of Pyrola), Gray, " Nat. Arr. Brit. 

 PI." (i 82 i), 403. 



P. secunda tenerior, " Ger. em." (1633), 408. 



P. tenerior, Parkinson, " Theat Bot." (1640), 509. 



P. folio uiucronato serrato, Ray, " Syn." (1690), 176. 



The first certain record for Great Britain was " In 

 shady birch woods among the moss . . . near Little Loch 

 Broom in Ross-shire," Lightfoot, " Fl. Scot," i. 219, 1777. 



1 Davey, " Fl. Cornwall" (1909), 132. 



2 Stewart and Corry, " Fl. N.E. of Ireland " (1888), 39. 



3 Hodgson, "Fl. Cumberland" (1898), 89. 



