By Tltomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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Wilts, where it can scarcely be absent. Localities more especially 

 when accompanied with specimens are particularly desired.] 



7. II. pulchrum, (Linn.) handsome Hypericum, or upright St. 

 John's Wort. Engl. Bot. t. 1227. 



Locality. Dry heaths, banks, woods and bushy places, chiefly on 

 clay. P. Fl. June, July. Area, 1. * 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Salisbury," Mr. James Hussey. "Alder- 

 bury," Major Smith. " Landford," Rev. E. Simms. 



3. South-west District, " Not unfrequent about Dinton," Dr. 

 Maton. "Corsley," Miss Griffith. " Westbury," Mrs. Overbury. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, " Spye Park, and in the woods beyond 

 Spye Park," Miss Meredith, and Dr. Alexander Prior. Not unfre- 

 quent in Bowood. 



5. North-east District, " Great Bedwyn," Mr. William Bartlett. 

 One of the most elegant of our indigenous plants with stems 



from one to two feet high, slender, erect, rigid and branched. 

 Flowers beautiful, in loose panicles, yellow, tipped, before expansion, 

 with red, anthers crimson. 



8. H. elodes, (Linn.) Marsh St. John's Wort. Engl. Bot. t. 109 



Elodes palustr is. Reich. Icones, vi. 342. 



Locality. Spongy bogs, rare. P. Fl. July, August. Area, 1 

 * * * * 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Bogs on Alderbury Common," Major 

 Smith, and Mr. James Hussey. " Landford Common," Rev. E. 

 Simms. 



Very rare in Wilts, and at present confined to the above District. 



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