﻿Localities. — On banks, and byroad sides, on a gravelly or chalky soil. 

 Frequent. — Oxfordshire ; About Nettlebed, Henley, and Stokenchurch : Or. 

 SiitTiiotiP. A little way out of Henley, on the road to High Wycombe; May 

 23, 1831 : W. 11. In a stone-pit at Forest-Hill ; Aug. 1832 : Rev. R. Walker, 

 B. D., Author of the Flora of Oxfordshire. Near Bignell ; and in Souldern: 

 Air. G. Woodward. — between Fawler and Cornbury Bark, in abundance : G. 

 Coles, Esq. Woodstock. — Berks ; Side of the road between Besselsleigh and 

 Tubney Wood: W. B. About Appleton, abundant: Miss Hoskins. — Bed- 

 fordshire ; Sandy, Warden, and Aspley: Rev. C. A bbot — Cambridgeshire ; 

 Shelford, Triplow, Gogmagog Hills, Fulbourn, Linton, and Abington : Rev. 

 R. Reliian. — Devonshire ; Amongst the rubbish of a lime-kiln at Tor 

 Moham .- Rev. A. Neck, in FI. Devon. In Long Lane, Exminster; and 

 in a lane leading from Exminster to Kenford. At Ilsham, near Torquay : 

 Rev. It. P. Welland, ibid. Between Crafthole and Leoe: Rev. P. Jones. 

 — Durham; 'Tyne and Wear Ballast Hills: Mr. Winch. — Essex; In a 

 lane leading from Chigwell to Chigwell Row : Mr. R. Warner. — Hampsh. 

 Arreton : Air. Snooke. — Kent ; Crayford, Shooter’s Hill, Charlton, Blackheath, 

 Lewisham, Woolwich Warren, Bromley, West Wickham, Plumslead, Bexley, 

 Westerham, Orpington, Dartford, and Ospringe : Dr. AIaiitvn. St. Alartin’s 

 Hill, near Canterbury : Air. E. Jacob. — Leicestershire ; Glenfield, near Cham- 

 wood Forest: Rev. A. Bloxham, in Loud. Alag. of Nat. Hist, v.iii. p. 167. — 

 Middlesex; About Hampstead; near Richmond Bridge; at Strand on the 

 Green; and about Ilarefield : Dr. AIartyn. — Surrey; Dupper’s Hill near 

 Croydon; about F.sher and Godalmin: Dr. AIartvn. — Sussex; Tiliington : 

 Dr. AIartyn. — Warwickshire ; Near the cross, on the road from Ashow to 

 Stoneleigh, plentiful: Air. W. G. Perry. — Worcestershire ; About Stour- 

 bridge, on the side of the Bromsgrove road, &c. : Air. Purton, in Mid. FI.— 

 SCOTLAND. Links between Seton and Gosford: Dr. Yule, in Hook. FI. 

 Scot. Banks of the river Ksk opposite coal-pits ; and at Borthwick Castle : Air. 

 AIauchan. Near Boglehill, east of Cockenzie, : Air. Neill, in Grev. FI. Edin. 



Perennial. — Flowers from July to September. 



Stem simple or very little branched, upright, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 leafy, angular, striated, and often coloured. Leaves heart-shaped, 

 veiny, waved and crenate, somewhat downy, but not hoary, dark 

 green, the radical ones a foot long, on very long petioles, (leaf- 

 stalks) , those of the stem smaller, and becoming less and less pe- 

 tiolate upwards. Cluster spiked, long, terminal, mostly solitary, 

 many-flowered, but not very compact. Flowers in bundles, about 

 seven in a set, of a golden-yellow colour. Filaments (fig. 3.) 

 clothed with fine purple hairs. Anthers orange. 



A handsome plant, not unworthy a place in the flower garden. 

 “ The beauty of its golden yellow blossoms is much enriched by 

 the tints of purplish brown at the mouth of the tube, and orange- 

 coloured Anthers. The flowers are grateful to bees, and should be 

 encouraged near to the Apiarium. Minute attention to the con- 

 spicuous parts of these flowers might perhaps lead to the detection 

 of a singular circumstance thus recorded by Goldsmith : ‘ But 

 honey is not the only food on which these animals (insects) subsist. 

 The meal (farina) of flowers, of which their wax is formed, is one 

 of their most favourite repasts. When the flowers upon which 

 bees generally feed are not fully expanded, and this meal or dust 

 is not offered in sufficient quantities, the bees pinch the top of the 

 slamina in which it is contained, with their teeth ; and thus anti- 

 cipate the progress of vegetation.’ Swine eat this plant ; Sheep 

 are not fond of it; Cows, Horses, and Goats refuse it.” With. 

 v. ii. p. 313. 



The flowers sometimes vary to white. 



