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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District. " Whiteparish Hill/' and " The Cottage 

 Field, Landford/' Rev. E. Simms. " Laverstoek Down, Salisbury/' 

 Dr. Smith} " Old Saram," Mr. James Bussey. " Field between 

 Great Bedwyn and Shalbourne/' Mr. Reeks. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. In a dry pasture between Rowde and 

 Bromham. " Heath, Kington St. Michael," Rev. E. Rowlandson. 



5. North-east District. Round way Hill, Devizes. " Between 

 Four and Five Mile Clumps/' Mar lb. Nat. Hist. Report. " Great 

 Bedwyn," Mr. William Bartlett. Rather a local plant in Wilis, and 

 not as yet observed in Districts 2 and 3, where it can scarcely be 

 absent. Tubers of the root 1 to 3, very unequal, downy. Stems 3 

 to 8 inches high, clothed with sheathing pointed bracteas, their sur- 

 face crystalline and shiny. Leaves radical, ovate lanceolate, glabrous, 

 acute, ribbed. Flowers in a close twisted spike, mostly inclining 

 downwards, greenish- white, fragrant. This species is very uncertain 

 in its appearance. 



Listera, (R. Br.) Tway-blade. 

 Linn. CI. xx. Ord. i. 



Name. After Martin Lister, a celebrated physician and naturalist. 



1. L. ovata, (R. Br.) ovate-leaved or common Tway-blade. Engl. 

 Dot. t. 1548. St. 29, 14. 



Locality. In moist woods, groves, and thickets, and under trees 

 in damp and shady pastures. P. Fl. May, June. Area, 1.2.3.4.5. 

 Recorded in all the Districts, common. Stem about one foot high. 

 Leaves two, opposite, ovate, large. Spike long, very lax. Flowers 

 distant, small, yellowish-green. 



Neottia, (Linn.) Bird's-nest. 

 Linn. CI. xx. Ord. i. 



Name. Neottia is Greek, as nidus avis is Latin for a bird's nest, 



1 This gentleman, in 1817, commenced a periodical work under the title of 

 Flora Sarisburiensis, which was intended to describe and illustrate those plants 

 growing in the vicinity of Salisbury ; he was not, however, sufficiently en- 

 couraged in his undertaking, and only four numbers of the "Flora" were 

 published. T. B. F. 



