By Thomas Bruges Mower, Esq. 



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North Division. 



4. North-west District, Roundway Downs, near Devizes in plenty. 

 " Castle Combe," Dr. Alexander Prior. 



Not unfrequent in Wilts. Root parasitic on various plants. Stems 

 very numerous, 6 or 8 inches long. Leaves narrow-linear, or, 

 when very luxuriant, rather broader, and above an inch long. 

 Flowers small, in a terminal raceme, leafy, and sometimes branching 

 at the base ; each flower on a distinct peduncle, with 3 linear 

 bracts close under it. Fruit ovoid. 



ORDER. ARISTOLOCHIACE^E (JUSS.) 

 Asarum, (Linn.) Asarabacca. 

 Linn. CI. xi. Ord. i. 



Named from a, not ; and sairo, to adorn ; because the plant was 

 not admitted into the ancient coronal wreaths. 



1. A. Eurojoceum, (Linn.) European Asarabacca. Asarabacca is 

 compounded of asarum, and baccar (Lat.) a word used by Pliny to 

 signify a sweet herb, yielding spikenard. Engl. Bot. t. 1083. 



Locality. Shady places. P. Fl. May. Area, 1. * * * * 

 South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Under the hedge on the right hand side 

 of the road leading from Redlynch towards Standlynch, just 

 beyond the large chalk-pit, " where it was first discovered by Mr, 

 Bopliam in 1830. " In the Duke of Queensberry's woods near 

 Amesbury," Mr. Sole, M.S. Truly wild in Wilts, according to the 

 opinion of the late Mr. Borrer who had visited the locality. For 

 this interesting addition to the " Wiltshire Flora," botanists are 

 indebted to the late Mr. F. Popham of Bagborough near Taunton, 

 who formerly resided at Clarendon. The soil the Asarum grows in 

 is chalk, where it runs amongst the roots of the bushes of the 

 wild Cornel, the shrub which generally forms our hedges. The 

 Amesbury station has not been verified of late years ; it has been 

 repeatedly searched by the Rev. E. Duke, Mr. James Hussey, and 

 myself. For further remarks on the Wiltshire locality for the 

 Asarum, I would refer to my observations in the " Phylologist," 

 vol. iii.,^. 868. 



