224 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



Dr. Maton, " Nat. Eist. Wilts." " Little Durnford," Mr. James 

 Sussey. "Amesbury," Dr. Southhy. 



2. South-middle District, In a Coppice about half-a-mile from 

 Stonehenge " Westbury," Mrs. Overbury. 



3. South-west District, Fir plantations on Cop-heap, Bishopstrow, 

 near Warminster. " Harnham Hill," Mr. James Mussey. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Box and Lucknam Grove. 



5. North-east District, " Savernake Forest," Flora Marlb. Spar- 

 ingly distributed in Wilts. 



Hoot of numerous slender knotty fibres, difficult to separate from 

 the soil.' Stem stout, erect, 6 to 9 inches high, simple or slightly 

 branched, instead of leaves having numerous ovate scattered scales 

 of the same dingy and yellow colour as the stem. Raceme terminal, 

 a continuation of the stem at first drooping, then erect. Flowers 

 on short scaly or bracteated pedicels, large, of the same colour as 

 the rest of the plant. SeeOs very minute, rarely perfect, which 

 may account for its comparative scarcity. The species of this genus 

 have much the appearance of parasitical plants, but no connection 

 has yet been traced between their roots and those of the trees 

 under which they grow. Mr. Newman suggests, the plant may 

 derive its nourishment from decaying, and not from living vegetable 

 matter, in the same way in which fungi do, for which green leaves 

 would not be necessary. (See Phyt. Ser. I. vol. i., p. 297.) 



ORDER. AQUIFOLIACE^. (DE CAND.) 

 Ilex, (Linn.) Holly. 

 Linn. CI. iv. Ord. iii. 



Name. An old word used by Horace, and other authors, origin- 

 ally applied to the holme, or evergreen oak. 



1. I. Aquifolium (Linn.) common Holly. Aquifolium is an old 

 word for the Holly, " Quod acutura folium habet ; " or rather from 

 aqua (Lat.) water, and folium ; in allusion to the varnished leaf, 

 which always appear to be wet. The connection of evergreen sprigs 



' These fibres are said by Mr. Rylands to be a byssoid fungus, and not a part 

 of the Monotropa. (Phyt. ser. I. vol. i., p. 341.) 



