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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Cornfields at Salisbury and its neighbour- 

 hood," Mr. James Hussey. " Amesbury," Dr. Southby. 



2. South Middle District, Cornfields near Devizes, Market Lav- 

 ington, Erlestoke, Codfbrd St. Peters, and Westbury. 



3. South-west District, Clay Hill, Warminster, Hindon and 

 Stourhead. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, By the road side near Limpley Stoke, 

 Cornfields between Corsham and Puckridge, Bowden and Derry 

 Hill, and Spye Park. " Neighbourhood of Chippenham," Dr. R. C. 

 Alexander Prior, and Mr. C. E. Broome. 



5. North-east District, Swindon and Marlborough.. 



This is the "P. laciniato folio, capitulo hispido longiore," of our 

 great Pay, and much resembling the preceding species, from which 

 it should be carefully distinguished. It is the weakest and not 

 unfrequently the smallest of our red Poppies. 



P. Rhmas (Linn.) Pomegranate or common red Poppy, round 

 smooth-headed Poppy, Corn Pose, Ped-weed, named from Phoia 

 (or Rhoa. Gr.) a pomegranate which it resembles in its scarlet 

 flowers. Engl. Dot. t. 645. Reich. Icones iii. /. 4479. 



Locality. In cultivated land amongst corn, clover, &c. abun- 

 dantly. A. June, August. Area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



General in all the Districts, and by far the most abundant of our 

 Poppies, and, where it abounds, denotes a light chalk}*- and shallow 

 soil. It is singular that when such land is broken or ploughed 

 up in the spring, when there can be no Poppies to scatter their seed, 

 and although it be where none have ever been seen, yet it is a 

 great chance that such land shall not be covered with these plants 

 during the summer. This has frequently been observed on the 

 Wiltshire Downs, where lands have been first broken up, also 

 about our railway cuttings, I have seen their embankments glow 

 with the red petals of the Wild Poppy. P. Rhmas is an abundant 

 plant throughout England and Ireland, less so in Scotland, and 

 scarce in the Highlands. It is also remarkable that this, and the other 

 species of Poppy, the disposition of which to wander obtained for 



