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The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)

Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 75

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hest hill^ will find around its basaltic zone Potentilla ruprestris^ a plants we believe^ not known in any locality nearer than Cologne ; and around the pillar which crowns its summit Botrychium lunaria, which is also curious^ seeing that it is partial to low meadows. He may also find — Saxifraga… … AMERICAN WEED. The sweet sedge [Acorus calamus) is found on the river banks^ and in the river itself ; the river or American weed, which has spread so extensively along our navigable rivers and canals within the last few years, is found to have penetrated thus far.

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