270 Mr. William Pitt on the 



clipping, confining, and fretting its supporting plants, and therefore that some 

 attention should be given to clearing it a^ay before it has too long established 

 itself, otherwise, becoming a kind of garment, the stripping it off may starve, and 

 in that way injure the main plant. When timber trees in a plantation increase in 

 size, they should be gradually thinned, by weeding out the underlings, and inferior 

 species, and that annually, or by degrees ; as the making too large an opening at 

 once may let in too much cold air, and starve the plantauon. I shall conclude 

 the whole with a short, list of herbs, or plants peculiar to, or commonly found 

 spotaneous in woods, so far as I have observed them, and growing there without 

 the aid of the «wner, or planter. 



1. Enchanter's nightshade (Circa lutetiana), woods in Bedfordshire and 

 elsewhere; not uncommon. 



2. Wood reed ( Arundo arenaria). 



3. Woodreoffe (Asperula odorata), common in many woods; in Enfield 

 pleasure grounds, Staffordshire, very plentiful. 



4. Wild angelica (Angelica sylvestrisj, common in woods and hedges, and 

 having the same properties in an inferior degree, with the garden angelica. 



5. Solomon's seal, or wood lily (Convallaria), woods in various parts of the 

 kingdom. 



6. Eng\iiihhy2iC\nih,hBrehc\\ (Hyacinthus non scriptus), 



7. Willow herbs (Epiiobiums). 



8. Bilberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus), in moist woods. 



9. Wintergreen (Pyrola), woods in the moorlands of Staffordshire. 



10. Wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), very common. 



11. Wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides), wood, in a clayey soil frequent; 

 Necdwood forest, Staffordshire, plentifully. 



12. Raspberry, dewberry, and common bramble (Rubus's), common inmost 

 woods, one or more of the species. 



13. Strav'berry (Fragaria vesca), common in woods. 



14. Tormentill {Tomentilla reptans), very common. 



15. Herbbennett (Geum urbanum), common, 



16. Wood anemone (Anemone tiemorosa). 



17. Wood crowfoot (Ranunculus auricomus), common in woods on a clayey 

 soil. 



