The New Botanist's Guide to the Localities of the Rarer Plants of Britain: On the Plan of Turner and Dillwyn's Botanist's Guide |
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Abbey abundant Anglesea anglica ballast-hills banks Bath Battersea Beds Berks Bloxam bogs Bridge Bristol Bungay Cambridge Cant Carnarvon Castle Cheshire Cliffs coast Common Contr Corn-fields Cornwall Coulsdon Cumberland Denbigh Denny Derby Devon ditches Dorset Durham eriophorus Essex europæus fields Forest Gapper Gloster H. W. sp Hants Heath hedges Hill Hist HOTTONIA palustris Illust Ilsington J. E. Bowman Kent Lancashire lane Leeds Lees Leicester limestone lutea Malvern maritima maritimum marshes meadows Merioneth Middlesex Midl miles Miss Bell Moor MYOSURUS minimus MYRIOPHYLLUM verticillatum nigrum Norfolk Northumberland Norwich Notts officinalis Oxon palustris Pamplin Park pastures Penzance plant Plentiful plentifully pratensis rare Richmond Ripon river road road-side rotundifolia Salop Sandy sativa Shore side Smith Somerset Suffolk Surry Sussex sylvaticum sylvestris T. H. Cooper Teesdale TEESDALIA nudicaulis Tunbridge Tyne uncommon W. C. Trevelyan walls Ward Warwick Westmoreland Winch Wood Worcester Worsley Wrexham York
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Page 14 - Marsfield," in the same county. See Eng. Fl. Hi., 202. It has also been seen " on the coast near Brighton." (Phyt. iv., 156. NS) In Devonshire "it came up spontaneously in a field that had been ploughed to form a garden, in the centre of the new square, at Plymouth.
Page 165 - Ufton near Reading, springing up in dry stony thickets, periodically for a year or two after they have been cut, and till choked by briars, &c.
Page 40 - On the sand and naked pebbles of Chesil Bank, running from Portland to Abbotsbury ; on the north shore, and eastward of it, at Poole, and elsewhere.
Page 38 - Lansdown, on the slope of a hill on which there is a clump of firs, about a mile and a quarter from Bath.
Page 203 - Ahberly ; at the base of the N. hill, Malvern, on the roots of Holly ; and in a thick wood on a conglomerate rock near the Terne, on the root of Maple: NBG — Yorkshire ; Round Howe, and woods W.
Page 195 - On loose earth thrown up from a quarry above Lench Ford, nearly opposite Shrawley, and in Cliffy Wood near Hanley.
Page 170 - Dandridge on the sides of a hill called Marvell Hill, by Henley Townside, and by Mr. J. Sherard on the Church walls at Henley, Ray, Syn.
Page 139 - Covers a field by the side of Mendham long lane by Harleston, and has grown there before the memory of the oldest person in the neighbourhood. Rev. H.
Page 49 - In a wood through which the road passes, about two miles and a half from Newport, Isle of Wight, to Ryde, as common as Scilla nutans in our woods ; Mr. Griffith in Bot.
Page 304 - A Concise DESCRIPTION of the ENGLISH LAKES and adjacent Mountains, with General Directions to Tourists, Notices of the Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology of the District. Observations on Meteorology, the Floating Island on Derwent Lake, and the Black-lead Mine in Borrowdale. By JONATHAN OTLEY. Keswick : published by the author ; by Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers...