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VOL. XIV. (2) GLOUCESTERSHIRE PLANTS 105 
SOME GEOUCESTERSHIRE PLANTS, 
BY 
G. C. DRUCE, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Read July 7th, 1900) 
When the Club visited the Wild Garden, Pittville, 
Cheltenham, to inspect the plants, there was shewn, as 
an object of especial interest in the county, the Szachys 
alpina, or Alpine Woundwort. ‘This plant was first dis- 
covered in Switzerland. It does not grow there at any 
particularly high altitude and accordingly is not an alpine 
plant; but Linnzeus gave it its second name, as he did to 
many Swiss plants. In England the plant was discovered 
about 1896, growing in the woods along the Cotteswold 
escarpment, near Dursley, and in that neighbourhood ; 
and hitherto it has not been found elsewhere in England. 
I have recently visited this habitat and pronounced the 
plant as growing truly wild in indigenous and ancient 
woods, and being itself indigenous and the true Stachys 
alpina. The plant was growing luxuriantly in its native 
Gloucestershire woods, and the situation at Pittville 
seemed to suit it equally well. 
Another plant was the 7hestum humifusum (Bastard 
Toad-flax), which I have recently found growing in un- 
usually large compact masses on the edge of the field on 
Whittington Hill, and on the path in it leading from 
Whittington to Sevenhampton Common. The plant was 
growing in the Pittville garden asa partial parasite, attached 
