CATALOGÜE OF RABE PLANTS. 69 



border of the moor. He was the first, I believe, to publisk 

 this locality, and tili lately I supposed that he was the first 

 to discover it ; but I now find that it was known to the 

 late Wm. Sole, author of the Mentha Britannicce, as far 

 back, at least, as 1782, for in his MS. flora of this date, 

 which has been obligingly lent to me by my friend, T. B. 

 Flower, of Bath, the plant is recorded, under the Linnaaan 

 name of Schcenus fuscus, as growing in "Burtle Moor, near 

 Mark." 



Rubus idceus. In a drove by the side of an orchard, 

 about a mile eastward of the Shapwick road, and half a 

 mile southward of the railway, and again about a mile 

 farther eastward, on the sides of a reene. Fruit amber- 

 coloured, the prickly setae of the stems a still paler colour; 

 a variety which, in the wild State, is not recognised in the 

 flora of either Withering, Smith, Hooker, or Babington, 

 excepting that in a Supplement of Hooker's British Flora, 

 by Dr. T. Bell Salter, the fruit is said to be "rarely 

 amber-coloured," and that the prickly setae, which are 

 usually dark red, are " pale in the plants bearing amber- 

 coloured fruit." 



Rumex hydrolapathum. Plentiful in watery places ; fre- 

 quently very large, the lower leaves sometimes thirty 

 inches long and nine broad. 



Rumex palustris. Plentiful in the neighbourhood of 

 Burtle, and occasionally in other parts of the moor, spring- 

 ing up in newly prepared turf ground, after the surface 

 has been removed a foot or two in depth. 



Sagina nodosa. In the droves and other drier parts of 

 the moor. 



Samolus Valerandi. On the sides of pits and reenes. 



Scirpus co?spitosus. In heathy ground near the Shap- 

 wick railway Station, plentiful. 



