208 The Flora of Wiltshire. 
South Division. 
1. South-east District. ‘“ Whiteparish Hill,” and “The Cottage 
Field, Landford,” Rev. #. Simms. ‘ Laverstock Down, Salisbury,” 
Dr. Smith “Old Sarum,” Mr. James Hussey. “ Field between 
Great Bedwyn and Shalbourne,” Mr. Reeks. 
North Division. 
4. North-west District. In a dry -pasture between Rowde and 
Bromham. “ Heath, Kington St. Michael,” Rev. #. Rowlandson. 
5. North-east District. Roundway Hill, Devizes. ‘ Between 
Four and Five Mile Clumps,” Marlb. Nat. Hist. Report. “ Great 
Bedwyn,” Mr. Wilham Bartlett. Rather a local plant in Wilts, and 
not as yet observed in Districts 2 and 3, where it can scarcely be 
absent. Tubers of the root 1 to 3, very unequal, downy. Stems 3 
to 8 inches high, clothed with sheathing pointed bracteas, their sur- 
face crystalline and shiny. Leaves radical, ovate lanceolate, glabrous, 
acute, ribbed. Flowers in a close twisted spike, mostly inclining 
downwards, greenish-white, fragrant. This species is very uncertain 
in its appearance. 
Listera, (R. Br.) Tway-Biape. 
Linn. Cl. xx. Ord. i. 
Name. After Martin Lister, a celebrated physician and naturalist. 
1. L. ovata, (R. Br.) ovate-leaved or common Tway-blade. ngl. 
Bot. t. 1548. St. 29, 14. 
Locality. In moist woods, groves, and thickets, and under trees 
in damp and shady pastures. P. F/. May, June. Area, 1.2.3.4. 5. 
Recorded in all the Districts, common. Stem about one foot high. 
Leaves two, opposite, ovate, large. Spike long, very lax. Flowers 
distant, small, yellowish-green. 
Neortia, (Linn.) Brrp’s-nest. 
Linn. Cl. xx. Ord. i. 
Name. Neottia is Greek, as nidus avis is Latin for a bird’s nest, 
1This gentleman, in 1817, commenced a. periodical work under the title of 
Fiora Sarisburiensis, which was intended to describe and illustrate those plants 
growing in the vicinity of Salisbury ; he was not, however, sufficiently en- 
couraged in his undertaking, and only four numbers of the “‘ Flura” were 
published. 7. B. F. 
