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By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 145 
North Division. 
4. North-west District. Slaughterford, about Cloud Quarry, Stoke 
woods, and in fields on the way to Farleigh Castle. “ Woodman’s 
Quarry, Pickwick near Corsham, and in a wood at Weavern’s Mill,” 
Dr. R. C. Alexander. 
This species may I think be considered a true native in the 
county. The late Dr. Bromfield, during his Botanical rambles in 
Wilts, inclined to a similar opinion; he was probably the best au- 
thority on the subject. The broad deeply cleft leaves with their 
rigid evergreen character, and long petioles sheathing the short 
caudex, impart to “ H. fwtidus” somewhat of the aspect of a dwarf 
fan-palm or palmetto. The species is often seen in cottage gardens, 
being a rustic remedy for worms in cbildren, but the employment 
of so violent a medicine in unskilful hands has too often been fol- 
lowed by serious consequences, and its use is now abandoned in 
regular practice. It is from the use of the root as an issue for 
horses and horned cattle, that the term Setter Wort is derived, the 
word “Settering”’ being in use with farriers to denote the insertion 
of a seton or issue, and is probably a corruption of setoning. See 
Churchill’s Med. Bot. also Gerarde. 
2. H. viridis (Linn.) green Hellebore. Engi. Bot. t. 200. Reich. 
Icones, iv. 105. 
Locality. In woods and bushy places, on a chalky soil, rare. P. 
Fi. March, April. Area. 1. *'3. 4. 5. 
South Division. 
1. South-east District. “Borders of Clarendon wood, near Salis- 
bury,” Major Smith. 
8. South-west District. “Berwick St. John,’ Mr. James Hussey. 
“Hedges at Fonthill Gifford,’ Miss L. Meredith. “Warminster,” 
Mr. Wheeler. 
North Division. 
4. North-west District. In an old stone quarry at Monkton 
Farley, and in Stoke woods. ‘ Ashwick and North Wraxhall,” Dr. 
Rh. C. Alexander. “ Woods at Castle Combe,” Miss C. ML. Griffiths. 
5. North-east District. “Great Bedwyn,” Mr. William Bartlett. 
The localities for this species are all I fear of too suspicious a 
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