By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 73 



Locality. In stagnant water and slow streams, rare. P. Fl. 

 June, July. Area, * * 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



3. South-west District, " Marshy places and ditches about Brit- 

 ford," Major Smith. 



North Division. 



4. North-toest District, In the river at Lacock. " In a pond be- 

 hind Lacock Abbey," Dr. Alexander Prior. 



5. North-east District, Canal between Swindon and Purton. 

 " Great Bedwin," Mr. William Bartlett. The whole plant has a 

 general resemblance, although no affinity, to some of the more 

 slender species of Equisetum, often called Horsetails, or even 

 Marestails. The French call this herb Pesse d'eau, from its 

 resemblance to a pine-tree in miniature. 



ORDER. CUCURBITACE^. (JUSS.) 

 Bryonia, (Linn.) Red Bryony. 

 Linn. CI. xxi. Ord. v. 

 Name. From bruo, to sprout up, in allusion to its rapid growth. 

 1. B. dioica, (Linn.) dioecious red-berried Bryony, Engl. Bot. t. 439. 

 Locality. In woods, thickets, hedges, and fences. P. Fl. May, 

 September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Frequent throughout the county ; 

 particularly in the North-west District. This is an interesting 

 plant to the English botanist, as being the only indigenous example 

 of its natural order, but it contains several exotic genera, some 

 species of which are used in medicine, and a few which are culti- 

 vated in our gardens as articles of food, as the melon, the cucumber, 

 the gourd, the squash, or vegetable marrow. The root which fre- 

 quently grows to a very large size, is occasionally sold for the real 

 mandrake {' At'ropa mandra'gora') as endowed with virtues similar 

 to the mandrakes mentioned in Scripture, of which nothing is 

 known but by conjecture. 



ORDER. PORTULACE^. (JUSS.) 

 MoNTiA, (LiNN.) Blinks. 

 Linn. CI. iii. Ord. iii. 

 Name. So called after Joseph Monti, Professor of Botany at 

 Bologna, 1719. 



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