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By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 133 
“Durnford,” Rev. T. Bree. ‘ Amesbury,” Dr. Southby, and on 
Salisbury Plain. 
2. South Middle District. Cornfields near Stonehenge. 
3. South-west District. Great Ridge and Fonthill. ‘“Warmins- 
ter,” Mr. Rowden. 
This species, at present, appears confined to the South Division 
of the County, having no reliable authorities for its occurrence in 
the Northern portion, nor do I recollect meeting with it in my 
Botanical excursions. And here J would remark that I should feel 
particularly indebted to Botanists, whether resident or non-resident 
in the county, who may discover any species in those districts 
which are left blank, (that is distinguished by an asterisk in the 
line which shows the area of the species,) if they would communi- 
cate the information; and the request may be extended to any other 
information calculated to supply omissions, or to correct errors, in 
the Flora which will be published in a supplement on its comple- 
tion. On carefully examining this species, the Botanical student 
will find it more closely allied to Ranunculus than to Anemone, 
differing from the former mainly in the want of nectaries on the 
petals, and from the latter by the absence of an involucre. The 
flowers when the plant has been for some time dried for the Her- 
barium lose their fine scarlet colour, becoming white and diaphanous 
like goldbeaters’ skin. The Adonis appears quite naturalized in 
the Southern Division of the County. In the fourth volume of the 
‘Phytologist, p. 617, Mr. James Hussey has penned some excellent 
practical remarks in favour of retaining this ornament of our corn- 
fields upon the list of our truly native plants; to which I would 
refer the student. This was the plant that our great Ray, during 
his Botanical excursions through Wiltshire in company with his 
friend Aubrey, tells us they found “inter segetes,” 
The “A. estivalis,”’ mentioned on the authority of Withering in 
Turner and Dillwyn’s ‘Botanists Guide,” and figured in English 
Botany as growing in cornfields on Salisbury Plain, near the road 
leading from Amesbury to Everley, was only a variety of A. 
autumnalis. Sir James E. Smith in the third volume of his 
‘English Flora,’ p. 44, states that the A. estivalis (Linn.) under 
