By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Alderbury Common/' Major Smith. 

 "Salisbury/' Mr. James Hussey. 



2. South Middle District, " Westbury," Mrs. Overbury. 



3. South-west District, " Near Corsley," Miss Griffith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Meadows at South "Wraxhall. "On 

 Whitley Common near Melksham," Dr. R. C. Prior. Flor. Bath. 

 ** Marshy fields at Bromham," Miss Meredith. " Heath, Kington 

 St. Michael," Rev. E. Rowlandson. 



5. North-east District, Copse on the north side of Martinsell 

 Hill. Savernake Forest. "Great Bedwyn and Marlborough 

 Common," Flor. Marlb. 



Not a rare plant in Wilts. Stems 3 to 5 inches long. Calyx 

 quite glabrous on the outside, woolly within, at the mouth inflated, 

 reticulated with green veins. Flowers large, rose-colour, sometimes 

 white. 



Rhinanthus, (Linn.) Rattle. 

 Linn. CI. xiv. Ord. ii. 



Name. From rhin, a nose, and anthos, a flower ; in allusion to 

 the beaked upper lip of the corolla, which is very remarkable in 

 the R. Elephas. The English name Rattle refers to the rattling 

 of the seeds in the capsule when ripe. 



1. R. Crista-galli, (Linn.) Cockscomb or common yellow Rattle. 

 The name cockscomb is derived from the appearance of the upper 

 leaves or bracteas which accompany the flowers. Engl. Bot t. 

 657. R. minor, (Ehrh.) Reich. Icones, 731. 



Locality. In meadows and damp pastures. A. Fl. June. Area, 

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Generally distributed more or less throughout all the Districts. 

 Flowers on very short peduncles, axillary in the bracteas, each pair 

 crossing the next, and altogether forming a kind of loose inter- 

 rupted spike. Calyx large, bladdery, strongly ribbed, smooth, of a 

 pale yellowish green colour. Corolla yellow ; the segments of its 

 upper lip short, bluish. The rattling of the seeds in the capsules 

 indicates to the Swedish peasantry the season for gathering in 



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