By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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Locality. In dry sandy, and chalky places, rare in the county. 

 A. Fl. May, June. Area, * * 3. 4. * 



South Division. 



3, South-west District, " Road side and hill North of Wilton/' 

 Rev E. Simms. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Sandy corn-fields between Kingsdown 

 and South Wraxhall. 



This is rather a local than a common plant, stems 4 to 6 inches 

 high, glabrous throughout, remarkably slender, especially the 

 peduncles. 



Moehringia, (Linn.) Moehringia. 

 Linn. CI. x. Ord. iii. 



Name. So called after Moehringia a celebrated botanist. 



1. M. trinervis, (Clairv.), three-nerved or Plantain leaved Moeh- 

 ringia. Arenaria, (Smith). Engl. Bot. t. 1483. Reich. Icones,t. 216. 



Locality. In damp woods, groves, and on moist or shady hedge- 

 banks, not uncommon. A. Fl. May June. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In 

 all the Districts. Habit of Stellaria media, (Wither), aud distin- 

 guished from Arenaria and Alsine, by the appendages to the hiluni 

 of its seeds. 



Arenaria, (Linn.) Sandwort. 

 Linn. CI. x. Ord. iii. 



Name. From arena, (Lat.) sand, its habitation. 



1. A. serpyllifolia (Linn.) Thyme — (serpyllum) leaved Sandwort, 

 but the resemblance is not very apparent. Engl. Bot. t. 293. Reich. 

 Icones, t. 216. 



Locality. Dry places, walls, and gravelly ground. A. Fl. June, 

 August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Common in all the Districts. A 

 variety with stems much more slender, flowers and fruit of half 

 the size I have occasionally met with, it may be the (3 tenuior (Koch.) 1 



1 As compared with genuine serpyllifolia this plant is more graceful in its 

 habit of growth, the stems are more slender and more diffuse, the panicles 

 narrower and more elongated not level with the top, hut mostly lengthened out 

 into an irregular raceme. The hairs upon the leaves and calyces, longer, more 



