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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



3. South-west District, Woods at Longleat, and the Great Ridge, 

 near Warminster. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, By the side of the canal under Conkwell 

 Woods opposite Limpley Stoke. Kingsdown Wood ; also at Spye 

 Park and Bowood. 



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

 Bartlett. 



Not a common species in Wilts, although widely distributed. 

 One of the most elegant of our indigenous plants, and richly 

 deserving a place in our gardens, but unfortunately morbidly 

 impatient of removal from its native habit. Flowers very beautiful, 

 numerous, white, streaked with bluish veins. Stem three to six 

 feet high, climbing by means of its branching tendrils. 



4. V. Cracca (Linn.) Tufted Wood Yetch. Cracca is a word in 

 Pliny to denote a species of Yetch. Engl. Bot. t. 1168. St. 31, 6. 



Locality. In woods, thickets, hedges, and moist bushy places, 

 sometimes in meadows and the dry borders of fields. P. Fl. June, 

 August, Fr. August, September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Frequent in 

 all the Districts. 



5. Y. septum (Linn.) Bush Yetch. Sepium (of the hedges) is the 

 gen. pi. of sepes (Lat.) a hedge. Engl. Bot. t. 1515. St. 31, 16. 



Locality. In woods, thickets, hedges, and moist bushy places. 

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

 commonly distributed. 



6. Y. lutea (Linn.) Rough-podded Yellow Yetch. Engl. Bot 

 t. 481. St 31, 13. 



This rare species was found by the late Dr. Maton some years 

 since in the South-east District of the county. I quote the locality 

 from his "Natural History of Wilts," p. 62. " This is usually 

 considered a maritime species, but unless I was greatly misled by 

 the mutilated state of the few plants which I saw, it grows in a 

 stony spot on the hill, near an antient earth-work, called the 

 'Giant's Chair/ at a short distance from the village of Wick. 

 Mr. Dawson Turner also found it in an inland situation, viz., near 

 Glastonbury Tor." I am not aware that this plant has since been 



