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The Mora of Wiltshire. 



South Division. 



3. South-west District, "Riverside near West Ilarnham," Dr. 

 Maton. Nat. Hist. Wilts. More recently confirmed in the same 

 station by Major Smith and Mr. James Hussey. "Neighbourhood 

 of Warminster," Mr. Wheeler. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, By the side of the river Avon at Chip- 

 penham, Lacock, and Melksham. 



5. North-east District, Canal-banks at Marden and Purton. 

 A very local plant in Wilts. An elegant ornament of watery shady 



places, and the reedy banks of rivers. The stems rise above 3 feet 

 high ; the leaves, although generally opposite, often grow 3 or 4 

 in a whorl. 



3. L. Nummularis (Linn.) Money- wort. Nummulus is Latin for 

 a small coin. " Herb-two-pence " was an old name of this plant, 

 given in allusion to the opposite round leaves. Engl. Dot. t. 528. 



Locality. On wet ditch-banks, in low moist meadows, and wet 

 clayey pastures ; also by the sides of the Kennet and Avon Canal. 

 P. Fl. June, July. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Generally distributed throughout all the Districts. Flowers much, 

 larger and more showy than those of L. nemorum, though of a 

 paler yellow, and more resembling the blossoms of L. vulgaris, or 

 rather of L. punctata. Occasionally naturalized in shrubberies, 

 emd on banks near gardens. 



4. L. nemorum, (Linn.) wood Loose- strife, Yellow Pimpernel. 

 Engl. Dot. t. 527. 



Locality. In the black vegetable earth about springs and rills 

 in woods, and on moist shady hedge-banks. P. Fl. June, August. 

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



Recorded in all the Districts. Stems branched, square, smooth, 

 red and pellucid. Flowers golden yellow. Corolla fringed with 

 minute glandular hairs. As the capsule ripens, the pedicels roll 

 round as in the common Pimpernel. 



Anagallis, (Linn.) Pimpernel. 

 Linn. CI. v. Ord. i. 



Name from (anagelao) to laugh; probably in allusion to the 



