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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



Bot. t. 1035. St. 14, 10. Locality. Woods and thickets. P. Fl. 

 May. Area, 1. * 3. 4. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District. Oldstock Coppice, and in a wood on the 

 left of the road near Whaddon. " Batts Croft, Whiteparish/'' Rev. 

 F. Simms. " Groveley Wood/' Dr. Maton, Nat. Hist. Wilts. 



3. South-west District. Southley Woods, near Warminster. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Woods at Castle Coombe. Collet's 

 Bottom and Colerne Woods, in plenty. " Rudloe and Box," Mr. C. 

 F. Broome. Rather a local plant in Wilts. Leaves two, ovate- 

 lanceolate, radical. Scape semi-cylindrical. Flowers drooping, 

 bell-shaped, of a pnre white and very sweet scented, in a loose 

 raceme. Berries globular, red. 



PoLYGONATUM, (ToURN.) SOLOMONS SEAL. 



Linn. CI. vi. Ord. i. 



Named, from polus, many, and gonu, gonatos, a knee or angle ; on 

 account of the angled stems. 



1. P. multiflorum, (All.) common Solomon's Seal. Fngl. Bot. t. 

 279. Reich Lcones, x. 433. 



Locality. Woods and coppices, P. Fl. May. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 

 South Division. 



1. South-east District. "Coppice near Whaddon/ - ' Maton' s Nat. 

 Hist. Wilts. " Alderbury/-' Major Smith. " Clarendon/'' Camden's 

 Britannia. " Amesbury/'' Dr. Southby. 



2. South-middle District. Woods at Drew's Pond. " Woods 

 near Westbury/' Miss Overbury. 



3. South-west District. " Woods near Corsley/'' Miss Griffith. 

 t( Ashcombe/' Mr. James Hussey. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Collet's Bottom Woods, and in woods 

 at Spye Park, and Derry Hill. " Several woods near Rudlow/' Mr. 

 V. E. Bwome. 



5. North-east District. " Woods at Roundway, Devizes. 1 Great 



1 "In the woods about the Devises growes Solomon's Seale." — Aubrey, Nat. 

 Hist. Wilts. 



