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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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