The Botanist's Guide Through England and Wales, Volume 1Phillips and Fardon, 1805 - Botany |
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Abbot Abundant alpinum anglica ANTIRRHINUM ASTRAGALUS glycyphyllos Banks Beddgelart Bingley Blackstone Blandford Boggy Bogs Bradbury Bridge CAREX Castle chalk Church Cliffs Clogwyn Coast Coke Common Cornfields County Crib y Ddescil Cronkley Fell Cwm Idwel Dartford Davies Denbigh Dillenius Dillwyn ditches Dover Egleston Epping Forest field Frequent Gamlingay Garn Gogmagog Gogmagog Hills Goodenough Gotobed Griffith Harriman Heath Hedges Hinton Holme Hudson Hutchinson Hutton INULA Helenium Isle Isle of Portland Keswick lane LICHEN Lizard Point Llanberris Llanrwst Llyn Aled Madingley maritima maritimum Marsh Martyn Matlock Meadows MENTHA miles Moist Moor Mountains MYOSURUS minimus Newmarket officinalis PARIS quadrifolia Park pastures Pensance Pilkington places plant Plentiful plentifully Polwhele Poole Pulteney Purbeck Relhan river rivulet road side Robson Rocks Sandy shore Snowdon South Stackhouse Stayley Stones Sunderland Swansea sylvaticum T. F. Forster Teesdale Teversham Thornhill tween Ullswater uncommon walls Walthamstow Weighell Weymouth Winch Wisbech Withering Woods Woodward
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Page 27 - Ufton, near Reading, springing up in dry stony thickets periodically for a year or two after they have been cut, and still choked by briars.
Page 314 - In the ruins of an old castle near Netley Abbey, far from any house, and apparently wild; Rev. Norton Nicholls in Bot.
Page 294 - In a hedge close to the river about 100 yards above the Ford at Rhyd y Ddae Dwfr, betwixt St. Asaph and Rhyddlan, and on the Rhyddlan side of the river: BINOLEY.
Page 227 - 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 iii - ... received, even though they have involved the necessity of spelling in more than one manner names which we had reason to , believe were intended to be the same. A second, and considerable source of error, lies in...
Page 217 - Portland: HUDSON. On the neck of the Isle of Portland, close to the shingly beach : Rev. Dr.
Page 88 - Black Mountains.— Carnarvonsh. Meadows below Penrhyn ; in the hollow immediately below the cataract in Caunant Mawr ; near Dolbadarn Castle ; in the Vale of Llanberris; and in the meadows near Liyn Cowlid, a lake in the mountains above, and nearly North of Capel Cerig.
Page 155 - When I was in this county in 1796, I remarked in the woods two very remarkable and apparently distinct varieties of M. pratense — one with deep yellow, the other very pale flowers ; but I unfortunately omitted to note down the differences, and I have since lost my specimens, so can only request the attention of other botanists to this matter.'— (I).
Page 228 - Ang. 319. CCB p. 500. Syme, EB iii. t. 390. Pult. p. 89. Bot. Guide, ip 228. On the pebbly beach near Weymouth, now extinct. C. Portland Island, among the shingles near Chesil Bank, and even flowering under the stones some depth. Sir TG Cullum. Lodmoor near Weymouth, Hudson. " I have seen no specimens besides those in the Smithian Herbarium, which contains both the wild plants from Weymouth and larger cultivated examples from Dr. Goodenough's garden. The Weymouth specimens of Vicia lutea in Smith's...
Page iv - In such circumstances, even when we apprehended this to be the case, we have still considered it a lesser evil to subject ourselves to the charge of useless repetition, than to incur any hazard of depriving our readers of information, which might possibly prove serviceable...