166 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
WEST WILTS PLANT-NOTES FOR 1903. 
By Rev. E. §. Marsnatt, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tue following localities are additional to The Flowering Plants 
of Wiltshire (veferred to below as Fl. Pl.), published in 1888 by 
old friend and Maciboronghs gan Ren, . A. Preston, in which 
recorded in his pages. Since this book was issued, a good many 
discoveries have been made, ee a in the south, Mr. EK. J. Tatum 
being facile princeps among the workers; I must ask to be forgiven, 
if any previous notices are now aiaearuaty duplicated Last year 
was so inclement that excursions planned-out had repeatedly to be 
abandoned; this must be my apology for “the somewhat meagre 
results obtained. My immediate neighbourhood sy Ja ap- 
pears to afford a poor hunting-ground, much of it peing grass-land 
on stiff clay. Messrs. W. A. “Sho el and R. P. Murray gave me 
the advantage of ‘heir company on some of the otcans: ; I have 
also to thank Messrs. Arthur Bennett, E. F. Linton, H. W. Pugsley, 
oyle Rogers, F. Townsend, and Dr. J. von Sterneck for critical 
help. Districts 1, 8, 9 are in y.-c. 8, South Wilts; 2, 3 are in 
v.-c. 7, North Wilts. 
unculus circinatus Sibt Canal, Seend. — ARs 
jhgilis: Chaix. 1. Keevil, in poets ns small ’ ponds. aR, sabes 
Go ’ in 2. Roadside pool near Bromham, towards 
Plentiful i - the yok Son Boyton.— R. sceleratus L. 1. comida 
Keevil. Nea mham; also R. ee Lb. — RK. ac : 
The iovaitiing plat j is, I believe, R. Boreanus Jord. 
[Eranthis hyemalis Salisb. is fully Kebataliced in the parishes of 
Maddington and Rollestone (Dist. 7), where Rey. C. V. Goddard 
pointed it out to me in 1896. } 
Aquilegia vulgaris L. 1. Beech-wood a Prot ba Hill; native 
Berberis vulgaris L, 1. In several he at Keevil; apparently 
a relic of the primeval forest which dcplavechs raothed this _— now 
almost devoid of woodland. Polecats figure among the ‘‘ vermin’ 
nee i cane as paid at the Keevil Easter vestry, ‘be than 
, bei alued at no more than fourpence a head; 
fortis ra etched eyo aliitiiigls 
Papaver dubium L. 1. Keevil; Erlestoke. 2. Bromham; Dit- 
teridge; Ford. 
Fumaria Vaillantii Lois. 1. Wheat-field on the Downs above 
Bratton, in good quantity ; an for Wilts. 
aa Atha vulgaris R. Br. 8. Warminster; Boyton; Wylye. 
nine flexuosa With 1. Keevil; Seend. 2. Wootton 
scuaseete Belin ford Common. 
Erophila precozx DC, 3. Stony platform, Minety Station, in 
plenty.—In 1896 I gathered HF. a escens Jord. sparingly on old 
mole-hills near Stonehenge, Dist 
