Sparry Pit near Chapel le Frith : Mr. O. Sims. — Durham ; On the banks of the 
Tees in Teesdale : Rev. J. Haiuuman. — Rocks above Feldon Lead-Mill, two 
miles west of Edmondbyers; and by the Tees, above Middleton: Mr. Winch, 
— Hampsh. About two miles before you come to Alton from Ashton, by the 
side of a copse: Rav. In the road from Chichester to Arundel : Mr. E. Forster, 
jun. Woods near A lresford : N.B. Young, Esq. New College, Oxford. — Herts; 
Near Chcshunt Church: Mr. J. Woods, jun. Plentiful near Berkhamstead : 
Mr. Woodward. — Kent ; Woods about half a mile west of River Poorhouse, 
by Dover: Mr. Dii.i.wyn. Maize Hill beyond Greenwich: Mr. W. Curtis. 
Above Chaiing, on the Canterbury road : Mr. E. Jacob, and Rev. G. E. Smith. 
— Lancash. Satterthwaite at Brow Edge on Furness Fells: Mr. Jackson. 
Hawkshead : Dr. Marti n. — Middlesex ; Cane Wood, Hampstead : Dr. Mar- 
tvn. By the side of a hill about midway betweeu Uxbridge and Beaconsfield : 
Blackstonf. Near East Barnett: Mr. J. Woods, jun, — Northumberland ' ; 
Whin Rocks on the west side of Shewing Shields; and banks of the rivulet 
above Langley Ford at the foot of Cheviot : Mr. Winch. — Somersetsk. Natu- 
ralized near the bridge below the Paper Mill at Combe Down : Dr. H. Gibbs, 
in Babington’s Flora Bathoniensis. — Staffordsk. Near the Canal-bridge at Old- 
bury: Dr. Withering. — Suffolk ; In a wood at Hedenham, about three miles 
from Bungay : Mr. D. Stock, in Lou. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 155. — Surrey ; 
On a rising ground, beyond the Robin Hood Inn, in the road to Kingston-upon- 
Tiiames: SirJ. E. Smith, in Engl. F’l. Plentiful on Boxhill ; and between 
Wimbledon and Kingston : Mr. J. Woods, jun. — Sussex; Near a stone-quarry 
between Lambei hurst and Stone Crouch: Mr. E. Forster, jun. Wood in the 
way from the Wells at Tunbridge to F'rant ; and near Beyham Abbey : For- 
ster. In several parts of St. Leonard’s Forest ; and in woods near Arundel : 
Mr. Borrer. — Warwicksh. Ryton Wood : Rev. W.T. Bree, in Loud. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 164. — Worcestersh. Near Bewdley: Mr. Dyer. Within 
rails inclosing a young quick-set hedge, the boundary of Iverley common : Air. 
Purton, in Midi. FI. — Yorksli. Meadows near Sheffield, plentiful: Ray. In 
Btlsdale above Helmsley : Mr. Teesdale. Near Saivlev by Ripon : Mr. Brun- 
ton. Morcar Wood near Copgrove : Rev. J. Dalton. By the Swale, near 
Richmond : L. E. O. in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 168. — [ Berwick ; in 
a very deep and savage glen about one mile south of Fastcastle : Rev. A. Bair p.] 
— WALES. Carnarvonsh. Among the bushes in several of the meadows in 
Cwm y Clo, at the bottom of the Lower Llanberris Lake: Mr. Bingi.ey. — 
SCOTLAND. In the Cor;, ton Woods, and rocks to the East of the Kirk of 
Shots, near Hamilton : Dr. Parsons. Near Lock Luinaig, 20 miles west of 
Sterling, by the road from Tyndrum: Dr. Stuart. Habbie’s How, Pentland 
Hills. In Collington and Abercorn Woods: Mr. Maughan. Banks of the 
Clyde at Barncluith : Mr. Hopkihk. Fall of Fversaad Woods by Lochness: 
Mr. Murray. Rosslyn and Auchindenny Woods: Dr. Graham. — IRE- 
LAN D. — Among loose stones at the Scalp, left band side of the road as you go 
to Enniskerry : Mr. J. T. Mackay. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root creeping, somewhat fleshy. Steins from 3 to 6 feet high, 
upright, reddish-brown, simple, or slightly branched upwards, round, 
smooth, and leafy. Leaves scattered, nearly sessile, strap-spear- 
shaped, pointed, weavy, entire, or slightly toothed, smooth, veiny, 
glaucous beneath, single ribbed, rib whitish. Calyx coloured. 
Flowers numerous, deep rose-coloured, sometimes white, on long, 
terminal, upright clusters, with a small strap-shaped bractea under 
each partial stalk. Petals unequal, inversely egg-shaped, or in- 
versely heart-shaped. Germen hoary, purplish on the upper side. 
Stamens and Style bent downwards. Pollen blue. Stigma large, 
4-cleft. Capsule very long, with 4 blunt angles. Seeds small, each 
crowned with a tuft of long white hairs. Receptacle very long, 
loose, pliant, coloured, and 4-angled, the angles meeting the central 
partition of each valve. 
This is a very ornamental plant, and on that account :t is frequency planted 
in gardens ; but as it increases very much by its long creeping roots, it is apt to 
become a troublesome weed to the gardener. — The. young shoots are said to be 
eatable, and an infusion of the plant to be intoxicating. In Kamschatca an ale 
is hiewed from the pith ; and the down of the seeds, mixed with cotton or iur, 
has been manufactured into stockings, and other articles of clothing. 
