By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 227 



whose taste and pictorial powers are so frequently evident in Kia 

 valuable edition of "Gilpin's Forest Scenery," though he states the 

 disadvantage under which it labours, considers it notwithstanding, 

 a noble and magnificent tree. There are several fine trees at Long- 

 leat, Spye Park, and Tottenham, with clean stems of fifty feet and 

 from nine to twelve feet in girth. ^ The Drooping- Ash is a chance 

 variety, perpetuated by grafts. 



ORDER. APOCYNACE^. (JITSS.) 



ViNCA, (Linn.) Periwinkle. 



Linn. CI. v. Ord i. 



Name. A word used by Pliny, said to be from vincio (Lat.), to 



bind, in allusion to its twining shoots. Tournefort and others call 



the plant Vinca pervinca ; hence the English name Pervincle, or by 



corruption. Periwinkle. 



** There sprange the Violet dl newe, 

 And fresh Pervinkle rich of hewe." Chaucer. 



1. V. minor (Linn.) lesser Periwinkle. JSngl. Bot. t. 917* 



Locality. Woods and thickets. P. Fl. May, June. Area, l.*Z.*5. 

 South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Shady banks near Milford Bridge," 

 Dr. Maton, " Nat. Hist. Wilts." " Hedge banks at Landford, and 

 Platford," Rev. E. Simms. 



3. South-west District, Southley Wood near Warminster. " Od- 

 stock and Toney Stratford," J/r. James Eussey. "Warminster," 

 Mr. Wheeler. " Berkley Wood, near Corsley," Miss Griffith. 

 North Division. 



5. North-east District, " Near Martinsell Hill," " Copse between 

 Cadley and Wootten Rivers," Flor. Marlb. Not frequent and 



' " At the parsonage house at Wyley growes an ash out of the mortar of the 

 wall of the house, and it flourishes very well and is verdant. It was nine 

 yeares old in 1686. I doe not insert this as a rarity ; but 'tis strange to consider 

 that it hath its growth and nourishment from the aire, for from the lime it can 

 receive none." [In August 1847, I observed a large and venerable ash tree 

 growing out of and united with the ancient Roman walls of Caistor, near Norwich. 

 The whole of the base of the trunk was incorporated with bricks, rubble, and 

 mortar ; but the roots no doubt extended many yards into the adjacent soil. 

 —J. B.] Aubrey's Nat. Bist. Wilts, p. 56. 



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