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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



5. North-east District. In the cornfields about Calne. Not as yet 

 reported from {District 2) where it can scarcely be absent. In this 

 plant all the leaves become tendrils, except the first pair in the 

 young plants which are compound, and have two or three pairs of 

 leaflets. Occasionally an odd leaflet is developed on the tendrils, 

 in a later stage of growth which further indicates the origin of the 

 organ on which it is seated. A provision is made for supplying 

 the want of leaves in this plant, by an unusual development of the 

 stipules, which are so large that they might readily be mistaken 

 for real leaves. All tendrils, however, do not originate in the 

 modification of the leaf, but some are derived from an altered 

 condition of the stipules as in the cucumber ; others from a trans- 

 formation of the branches or peduncles, as in the vine. In fact 

 they may result from any caulinar appendages, which become 

 lengthened out at their extremities into filiform flexible cords, 

 more or less spirally twisted. 



2, L. Nissolia (Linn.) Nissol's Yetchling, crimson Yetchling, 

 grass Yetchling. Named after Guillaume Nissol, a botanist of 

 Montpellier. Engl Bot. t. 112. 



Locality. Pastures, bushy places, and recently cut copses on a 

 stiff soil. A. Jfl June. Area, 1. 2. 8. 4. * 



South Division. 



1. South-east District , " Coppices about Salisbury," (Bot. Guide.) 

 " Alderbury," Mr. James Hussey. 



2. South Middle District, Seend Cleeve, and in various places on 

 the banks of the Canal below the village. 



3 South-west District," " Warminster and Corsley," Miss Griffith, 

 " Borders of a field about two miles from Combe, on the Blandford 

 Road," Major Smith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, In Mr. Stone's plantations at Winsley, 

 near Bradford. This elegant species may be more frequent 

 throughout Wilts than the above area of distribution indicates, but 

 must be closely sought for, unless in flower, to be detected even by 

 the experienced botanist, on account of the near resemblance of its 

 foliage to that of the grasses among which it grows. The simple 



