HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. [121 



MoNADELPHIA. 



Tcucus baccata, (yew tree) hedge rows, and village church-yards, woods at 

 Himley, very large, and numerous. 



CLASS XXIILPOLYGAMIA. 



MONCECIA. 



sttriplex has tat a, (wild orach, john-a-neal) gardens 

 palula, (narrow-leaved orach) on rubbish. 



CLASS XXIV. CRYPTOGAMIA. 



FlLICES. 



Equisetum sylvaticum, (wood horsetail) in ditches and woods, dingle at 



Coton-hall, and near Burslem 

 arvense, (corn horsetail) on arable land 

 palustre, (marsh horsetail) marshes 

 fluviatile, (river horsetail) moist woods, rivers, and pools 

 limosum, (smooth naked horsetail) shallow water 

 hyemale, (shave-grass) marshes, Prest wood-farm, JVednesfisld 

 Lycopodium clavalum, (club-moss) Hogley Hey, Cannock-heath 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, (adder's tongue) meadows near Blymhill 

 Osmunda lunaria, (moonwort) woods at Belmont, Moorlands 

 regalis, (osmund royal) woods near dqualate-mere 

 spicant, (rough spleenwort) moist heaths, frequent, on the dam 



of White-sitch-pool 



Pteris Aquilina, (common fern) on heaths, [burnt to make ash balls] 

 ilsplenium Scolopendrium, (spleenwort) fissures of rocks, Stapenhill, near 



Burton-upon- Trent 

 Trichomanes, (maidenhair) old walls, clefts of rocks, on JVever- 



Mils, Moorlands 



Ruta muraria, (wallrue, white maiden hair) moist walls, rocks 

 ^idianthum nigrum, (black maiden hair) rocks and old walls 

 Polypodium vulgare, (common polypody) walls, roots of trees, frequent 

 Filix mas, (male polypody) woods and hedges 

 Filix femina, (female polypody) moist places, Blymhill, 



Pitmoor-pool dam, Weston-under- Lizard 

 Crtsfatum, (crested polypody) moist hedges and roots of oaks 

 fragile, (brittle polypody) walls, Moorlands 

 Dryopteris, (branched polypody) shady woods, Trtntham- 

 park, Moorlands. 



Musci. 

 Sphagnum palustre t (epey bog moss) in a bog near the IVhite-sitfh-pool 



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