of three miles, growing in straggling or dense patches of
blue, conspicuous at a distance, avoiding wet places; therefore
the term “ watery ground” in English Flora is hardly
correct. The statement that it had been found “ in other
similar situations in that neighbourhood,” arose from a
misunderstanding : it is confined to the Ford stream, from
whence the specimen here figured was communicated by
Mr. Clark. Mr. Tozer is stated in Hooker’s British Flora,
ed. 2, to have found it also below Staverton-bridge, Devon.
The Monk’s-hood,so well known to almost every cottager,
having been already described in English Flora, it is only
necessary to refer to that accurate work for the natural
characters.
The discovery of Mr. Whitehead was first brought into
notice by Purton in a note in the Appendix to the Midland
Flora. Subsequently the Aconitum Napellus was thought
by Smith worthy of a place in English Flora: undoubtedly
from the wild situations in which it has chosen to fix itselfj
it has a better right than many denizens to be so recorded.
—E. F.