By Viomas Bruges Flower, F.R.C.S., F.L.S., Sfc. 73 



Mid about the middle of the hill, Chamacistus montamis polii folio of 

 Plukenet, 1 ami an unknown grass, Spica Sparfi,foliis rejlexis anguslis 

 glaucis striath radicc crassd et fungosa. A little lower, Lychnis 

 maritima, Be/ten dicta, flore et folio mqjore,* first observed, after the 

 Synopsis was printed, by Mr. Brewer, and sent to Mr. Sherard's 

 garden, whore I believe you have seen it. The place mentioned for 

 the Polygonum maritimum longius radicatum, &c., of Dr. Plukenet, 

 is but two or three miles from hence, and we could not miss it, being 

 of no great extent ; but we searched in vain. Over against Brent 

 Down, on a rocky hill, where Uphill Church stands, I gathered seeds 

 of Pcncedanum minus? and sent a few by post to Mr. Sherard, who 

 raised them all, and you may have plants or seeds from him next 

 year ; which I mention, having lost the rest that I gathered. I 

 have seeds of the Cistus for you, and a few others, which I will send 

 the first opportunity. 



" From these parts we set out for Bristol, and from thence travel- 

 led through Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, to meet 

 Mr. Brown at Bishop's Castle ; he being desirous of going with us 

 to Snowdon, but he went only as far as Cader Idris. We observed 

 little remarkable by the way. Alcea tenuifolia cj'ispa* of John 

 Bauhin, is pretty common that way, and no other. In a hilly wood 

 near Worcester, we observed a species of Campanula, with scattered 

 flowers, on long slender spreading stalks, a square upright hairy 

 stem, upper leaves very narrow, lower, broader, almost of the shape 

 of Veronica officinalis, slightly hairy, minutely and elegantly crenate; 

 the root short, annual, with few fibres. 5 I take it to be new. In 

 boggy meadows here, as well as in other counties, I have observed 

 this year and the last, a Gramen junceum with jointed leaves, and 

 black shining heads, a root more fibrous and creeping than the 

 common kind, the whole plant of more humble stature, and earlier. 6 



1 Cistus polifolius. 

 2 Silene maritima, With., 414. Fl. Brit., 468. 

 3 Pimpinella dioica, Linn, Syst. Veg., and Fl. Brit., 332. 

 4 Malva Moschata. 

 6 Campanula patula . See Sort. Fltli., 68, t. 58. 

 6 Juncus lampocarpus, Davies, Tr. of L. Soc, v. 10, 13. 



