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A90787	The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. / By Robert Plot ...	Plot, Robert, 1640-1696.	1677 (1677)	Wing P2585; ESTC R231542	322,508	394

between Hockley and the Woods under Shotover-hill 8. Orobanche Verbasculi odore The root of this Plant is skaly and obtuse to which are appended a bundle of complicated Fibers like those of Nidus avis whence it riseth up with a soft round very brittle stalk seldom eight inches high set with thin small short skaly leaves like skins growing close to it At or very near the top of which stalk grow somtimes eight or ten small flowers altogether different from those of the common Orobanche each consisting of four pretty large leaves within which are contained as many lesser as in Tab. 9. Fig. 6. About the seed vessel which is round at the bottom with a narrow neck and a hole at the top somwhat resembling a childs sucking-bottle as in Fig. 6. a stand small chives with purplish tops as in Fig. 6. b. The whole herb flowers stalks and leaves are at the first flowering of a whitish yellow or straw colour and being broken or bruised smell like the root of a Primrose It grows at the bottoms of Trees in the woods near Stoken-Church and we find it mention'd in some MS. notes of the famous Mr. Goodyer 9. Saxifraga Anglica annua Alsine folio This small annual Saxifrage from a small fibrous root spreadeth its trailing jointed stalks about an inch or two from it at each joint come forth small narrow leaves as in the other Chickweed-break stone and from the upper joynts toward the end of the stalks come small herbaceous flowers made up of four leaves which prove the case for the small included seed vessel as in Tab. 9. Fig. 7. This Plant differs from the common one which is of a light fresh green perennial and somtimes roots again at its joynts in that its stalks and leaves are of a brownish green colour the Plant annual and never reptant it grows plentifully in the walks of Baliol College gardens and on the fallow Fields about Heddington and Cowley and many other places 10. To which perhaps I might add two different Lychnis's from the sylvestris flore albo Gerardi observed this Year by Mr. Richard Stapley one whereof bears a white flower somwhat less than the common yet at the center having another little flowery TAB IX ad pag 146. To the right Worsp ll the learned and curious Botanist Sr. Geo Croke Knight This Table of undescribed Plants natives of Oxfordsh is humbly dedicated by R. P. L L D circle in the middle of which appear several fine stamina with yellow longish apices whereas the reclining stamina of the common Campion have no apices at all the other also bears a white flower without that flowery circle but has stamina crowned with roundish purple apices with the dust whereof the flower it self is commonly soiled But in the first of these the seed vessel not appearing at all and in the second withering away with the flower We are not so bold as to make them distinct species's not knowing as yet whence they should be propagated These were found near Holy-Well in the Suburbs of Oxford and grow also in the Corn-fields about New-parks and as we suppose in most parts of England Sed de hoc quaere 11. Beside these there is also another of which Authors write so obscurely that we cannot positively say whether described or no However we have ventured to call it Artiplex vulgaris sinuata spicata it not being like the Pes anserinus alter sive ramosior of John Bauhin mentioned by Mr. Ray w In Catalog Plant. Angl. in that it bears its seeds in buttons close to the stalks like the Fragifera This grows equally common on Dung-hills with the sinuata major amongst which we suppose it has hitherto lay hid 12. As for the Plants described by other Authors but not noted by Mr. Ray to be of English growth we find only these in the County of Oxford 1. Clematis Daphnoides sive pervinca major in the High-ways between Woolvercot and Yarnton and in several hedges thereabout 2. Lagopus major vulgaris Parkinsoni in Stow-wood plentifully and several other places 3. Oenan the aquatica minor Park sive juncus odoratus Cordi in the ditches about Medley and Binsey-Common and almost every where about Oxford 13. Whereunto add some others indeed noted by Mr. Ray but left in doubt whether described or different from one another Such are the Helleborine flore albo mentioned in his Appendix x In Appendice p. 339. to grow in the woods near Stoken-Church not far from the road leading from London to Oxford which because he had not seen either flowering or green modestly refused to determin whether described or no But we having had time and curiosity of viewing it often in flower find it to be the Helleborine flore albo of Gerard and Tabernaemontanus Epipactis angustifolia of Besler y Jac. Theod. Tabernaemont Part. 2. p. 400. in his Hortus Eystettensis z Horti Eystett Plant. Vernal Ord. 9. fol. 5. Alisma quorundam Cordi a Valer. Cordi Hist de Plant. lib. 2. cap. 107. and Alisma Cymbaleanthemon Thalii b Ioh. Thalii Harcynia Saxono-Thuringica p. 13. Which Authors and others we have diligently searched and by comparing them together find the Plant to agree with each Figure as well as they could do one with another had they as indeed they commonly are been Printed from one Plate 14. The Plants which he doubts whether specifically distinct yet found so in Oxford-shire are also Helleborine's the one his Helleborine flore atro-rubente and the other Helleborine latifolia montana c In Catalog-Plant Angl. both plentifully growing on Stoken-Church hills Whereof the former has small narrow leaves somwhat like the Palustris and growing thicker on the stalk whereas those of the latter are broad and much thinner the one also flowering a full month after the other which we take to be distinguishing Characters enough though not so signally differing in the flowers as Mr. Ray owns his to do our latifolia montana coming nearer to that of Gerard then of him or Dodonaeus having purple flowers but as deep or deeper than those of the Helleborine flore atro rubente 15. Of Accidents that are incident to herbaceous Plants beside what I have seen amongst forreigners in Gardens I have met also with some amongst the natives of Oxford-shire which I guess may happen to them as likewise to all others most times through excess or defect in their nourishment Thus have I seen the stalks of Dyers-weed and Succory from a round near the root spread themselves upward into a broad flat stalk as if there were several of them fasciated together occasioned I suppose by reason of the ascent of to much nourishment for one stalk and yet not enough for two The fasciation if I may be allowed to coyn such a word being as it were an attempt for two stalks which upon the ascent of sufficient sap is somtimes accomplish'd the flat stalk then

the oblong parallelograms and large pentagons at the ends of the stone Fig. 14. TAB VIII ad pag. 142 To the right Worsp ll the learned and curious Artist Sr. THOMAS PENYSTON Baront. This 8th Table of formed STONES whereof the 4th 5 ft and 7th were found in his own grounds is humbly presented by RP LLD. CHAP. VI. Of Plants NEXT Inanimate things I proceed to such as have Life amongst which first of those that hold the lowest place that exercise the most universal and therefore inferior Faculties such as Herbs Shrubs Trees all which are contained under the general name of Plants But of these I intend not a compleat Catalogue that being a subject of it self large enough for a Volume but only a short account 1. Of the Indigenous Plants of the County which yet either 1. Are not described by any Author that we know of or 2. Have not been noted by the ingenious Mr. Ray in his excellent Catalogue to be of English natural growth or 3. Have indeed been noted which yet remaining dubious either as to the certainty of their description or specifical difference are cleared in this County 2. Of the extraordinary accidents of well known Plants 3. Of the unusual Plants now cultivated in the Fields under which head somwhat of the Husbandry of the Country according to which method I shall treat of all the three forementioned Species of Plants viz. Herbs Shrubs Trees so far forth as each of them will come up to it And first of those stiled herbaceous Plants 2. By which I understand all and only those that are made up of a succulent and carnous substance that never in any part will become lignous or hardly any of them retain it all winter as Shrubs and Trees do of which those that are indigenous and not described by any Author that we know of are these that follow 3. Viola Martia hirsuta major inodora Which large Violet from a fibrous root sendeth forth many leaves each upon his own foot-stalk neither creeping as the common March nor branched as the common Dog-violet its leaves and stalks are all hairy especially on the back-side they are also broader larger and more pointed than the ordinary March Violets which occasioned as some think the ingenious Dr. Merret to note it by the name of Viola Trachelii folio Å¿ Pinax rer Nat. Britan. p. 125. but that certainly must be some different kind the leaves of ours being all invecked as in Tab. 9. Fig. 1. whereas the Trachelia are all indented Amongst the leaves grow large flowers upon foot-stalks as other Violets of a pale blue colour with white lines or rays issuing from the middle of them but wholly without scent They flower in March and April and are commonly but abusively sold to the shops amongst other Violets they not being so good for any of those uses the Apothecaries put them to as other Violets are They grow plentifully in Magdalen College Cops on Shotover hill Stow-wood and many other places 4. Viola polustris rotundifolia From the root of this Plant which is white and at equal distances knotted whence only it sends forth its fibers not downward but horizontally arise 3 or 4 somtimes more feeble small stalks each bearing at its top only a round leaf as in Tab. 9. Fig. 2. Among which about April come up the stalks of the flowers slender like those of the leaves the whole Plant being weak and beholding to the neighboring ones for its support The flowers are all small and blue which being past a long Prismatical seed-vessel succeeds opening its self when ripe into three parts and shewing a rank of brown seeds appended to each angle by white Nerves This is easily distinguish'd from all other Violets by its native place wherein it is supposed they will not grow and by the smalness of its flowers which are considerably less than any of the rest whereunto add the remarkable roundness of its leaves which are so far from drawing to points that the longest way of them is from side to side Clusius indeed seems to describe a Plant like this by the name of Viola Alpina altera t Car. Clusii Plant. Hist cap. 13. but makes its flower as much greater as ours is less than the common one adding beside that it flowers about the latter end of June a month before which time the Seed of ours is ripe which are differences so irreconcilable that we cannot but pronounce ours as distinct from his as from any other Violets before described by Authors whereof we have consulted most if not all the best It grows sparingly in the Boggs about Stow-wood and on the Banks of Cherwell between Oxford and Water-eaton but most plentifully at Chilswell in Berkshire amongst the moistest Boggs 5. Juncellus omnium minimus capitulis Equiseti This least club-rush from small hairy roots riseth no bigger than horse-hair and not above three inches high bearing at the top a little club as in the other club-rushes but proportionably lesser as in Tab. 9. Fig. 3. where also it may be observed that the rush rises singly from the root and not branched like the Fluitans mentioned by Mr. Ray u In Catalog Plantar Angl. who had he seen this would certainly have owned different species's of club-rushes which he seems so much to doubt It grows in Binsey-Common in the moist ditches next the River Isis 6 Geranium columbinum maximum foliis dissectis Or the great jagged Doves-foot Cranes-bill differs from the jagged ones of other writers in that it is jagged at the first coming up whereas all others are whole then its leaves are also standing on long foot-stalks and much greater than those of any other Doves-feet from the middle of which there rise up great jointed stalks near the bigness of a mans finger branched and almost standing upright a yard in height At the joynts which are largely knotted are also large jagged leaves which at the top grow very thick amongst which stand the flowers upon short foot-stalks as in Tab. 9. Fig. 4. of a bright and red colour whereas the others are of a bluish purple the seeds being like those of other Doves-feet This grows in hedges about Marston and on that part of Botley-Causey next Oxford in great plenty 7. Pentaphyllum reptans alatum foliis profundius serratis This creeping Plant in all respects grows like the common Cinque-foil but that at the bottom some leaves are found round and undivided like Alchimilla and others dividing themselves into five are jagged but half way As it increases in growth the number of leaves oftentimes decrease bearing four three two and at the top one all which have two little leaves or ears at the bottom of the foot-stalk like Tormentill The flowers are of the bigness and colour of common Cinque-foil but generally made up of four leaves as in Tab. 9. Fig. 5. and but very rarely to be found with five It grows in the edges of the Corn-fields