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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



Linnsean Society — a society formed under the immediate auspices 

 of Sir James, its first President. Of this enthusiastic and learned 

 Botanist, we can truly say with Sprengel, that he proved himself 

 dignissimus Linnsei haBres." 



2. U. nanus (Forst) dwarf Autumnal Furze. Engl. Bot. t. 743. 



Locality. On dry sandy heaths, and commons. Rare. Sh. Fl. 

 August,' November. Area, 1. 2. * 4. * 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Alderbury Common," Mr. James Eussey. 

 " Heaths near the old canal Waddon," Mr. W. H. Hatcher. 



2. South Middle District, Salisbury Plain. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Bowden Hill 1 and Bowood. 



Very local in the county. I hesitate to quote all the localities 

 sent me, many of my correspondents having mistaken stunted 

 examples of U. Europceus, for the present species, hence doubts 

 arise in tracing its distribution. 



" A form of TJ. nanus (XL Oallii of Planchon) occurs in Spye 

 Park, {District 4) which is remarkable for its much larger size, 

 upright mode of growth and much stronger spines approaching in 

 all these points to U. Europceus, from which however it differs in 

 all the essential characters of the species." (Fl. Bath.) 



Genista, (Linn.) Greenweed. 

 Linn. 01. xvii. Ord. iii. 

 Name. The Broom of Latin authors, from Gen, said by Theis 

 to mean a Shrub in Celtic. 



1. G. tinctoria (Linn.) dyer's Greenweed, Wood Waxen, Tinc- 

 torius signifying of, or belonging to dyers, from tinctus dyed, the 

 plant yields a yellow dye. Engl. Bot. t. 208. 



Locality. Pastures, thickets, and borders of fields. Sh. FL 

 July, September. Area, 1. 2. 8. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Wood near West Dean, abundantly/' 



i " I never saw such dwarft furzes as at Bowden Parke ; they did but just 

 peep above the ground." Aubrey's Nat. Hist, of Wilts, p. 53. 



