By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 115 



ting its escape from the flower garden, where it increases rapidly 

 by the multiplication of its bulb-like tubers, but seldom by seed , 



" C. claviculata," (De Cand.) White climbing Fumitory, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 103. Reich. Icones, f. 4457. This species has not as yet 

 been recorded, or observed growing in any part of Wilts. In 

 Somerset and Hants it is more or less distributed, being found in 

 thick woods, stony bushy places, especially in hilly districts, where 

 in similar situations it will doubtless be detected in this county, 

 and added to our " Flora." 



Fumaria (Linn.) Fumitory. 

 Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. i. 



Name. The fumaria of Latin authors; so called from the smell 

 of some species resembling smoke (fumus), French fumeterre, whence 

 the English Fumitory. 



1. "F. capreolata," (Linn.) tendrilled or ramping Fumitory, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 943. Reich. Icones, f. 4456. The name capreolata means 

 furnished with capreoli (Lat.) tendrils, which word is a diminutive 

 of caprea, and signifies first a roe or deer, secondly a branch that 

 putteth forth tendrils, and is used in this sense by Varro. 



Locality. Cornfields, gardens, hedges, and road sides, not unfre- 

 quent. A. June, September. Area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Cultivated fields and gardens in the 

 neighbourhood of Salisbury," Major Smith. "Amesbury," Dr. 

 Southby. 



2. South Middle District, Cultivated ground about Devizes. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, "Chippenham," Dr. R. C. Alexander 

 Prior and Mr. C. E. Broome. " Gardens and cultivated land at 

 Bromham," Miss L. Meredith. 



5. North-east District, not unfrequent about Swindon and Crick- 

 lade. 



Not uncommon in Wilts, though possibly passed over for the 



botanical collections have been unfortunately dispersed, but bis name is entitled 

 to In- included with the other Naturalists of Wiltshire in the pages of this 

 Journal. 



