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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



1. N. Gataria, (Linn.) Cat Mint. Engl. Bot. t. 137. 



Locality. Dry banks by roadsides and waste places, especially 

 in a chalky or gravelly soil. P. Fl. July, Atigusl. Area, 

 1. * 3. 4.5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "In a lane leading from St. Martin's 

 churchyard, Salisbury, into the turnpike-road,'' Dr. Maton. Nat. 

 Hist. Wilts. " Amesbury," Dr. Southly. 



3. South-west District, " Harnham," Mr. James Hussey. 

 " Neighbourhood of Warminster," Mr. Wheeler. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, About Rudlow Box, Slaughterford, and 

 Gastard. "Chippenham," Dr. Alexander Prior. 



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

 Bartlett. 



Not a common plant in Wilts. Stems 2 or 3 feet high. Whole 

 plant invested with a soft, short, velvet-like down. Corolla whitish, 

 tinged with rose-colour and sprinkled with deeper dots. Every 

 part of the plant exhales, when bruised, a pungent aromatic odour, 

 somewhat resembling that of Mentha Pulegium. Cats delight as 

 much in this scent as in that of Valerian, hence the English 

 name. 



2. N. Glechoma, (Benth.) Ground Ivy. Engl. Bot. t. 853. 

 Glechoma hederacea, Linn. 



Locality. Hedge-banks and waste places frequent. P. Fl. April, 

 June. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Recorded in all the Districts. Stems extensively creeping. Leaves 

 stalked, downy ; floral ones similar to the others. Flowers large, 

 blue, very rarely pure white ; the tube of the corolla at least twice 

 as long as the calyx. 



[MelitHis Melissophyllum, (Linn.) Bastard Balm, Engl. Bot. t. 

 577 and 636, M. grandifiora, Sm. has been observed by the 

 Rev. E. Simms at Batt's Croft, Whiteparish (South-east 

 District) ; not having visited the locality, am unable to state 

 whether this most beautiful plant is truly wild in the above 

 station.] 



