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LEICESTERSHIRE FLORA. 

 By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam. 



I beg to send, for insertion in The Naturalist, the result of my botanical excur- 

 sions in Leicestershire, the south-western half of the county chiefly having been 

 explored. The catalogue contains about seven hundred species. 



Class I. Hippuris vulgaris. River Soar, near Ayleston, pond at Staunton 

 Harold ; near Shenton. 



Class II. Ligustrum vulgar e. In hedges, common. — Veronica serpyllifolia. Com. 

 -. — V. scutellata. Grooby Pool ; between Newbold Verdun and Desford ; in a pond on 

 the left of the road, between Cadeby and Sutton. — V. anagallis. — V. Beccabunga. 

 — V. officinalis. Not uncommon. — V. montana. Woods in Charnwood Forest. — 

 V. Charmcedrys. — V. hedercefolia. — V. agrestis. — V. polita. In gardens and cul- 

 tivated fields, with the foregoing; not rare. — V. arvensis. — Pinguicula vulgaris. 

 Formerly at Grooby Pool, and Pocket-gate, near Loughborough, found now but 

 sparingly in Charnwood Forest. — Utricularia vulgaris. Canal, near Congerstone. 

 Lycopus Europceus. Very common in watery ditches. — Salvia verbenaca. On 

 rocks about Croft village. — Circcea luetiana. Charnwood Forest woods. — Frax- 

 inus excelsior. — Lemna trisulca. About Congerstone. — L. minor. — L. polyrrhiza. 

 Pond at Kirkby Mallory ; ponds near Enderby. — L. gibba. Ponds at Conger- 

 stone. — Anthoxanthum odoratum. 



Class III. — Valeriana dioica. — V. officinalis. — Fedia olitoria. Near Ayleston. 

 — -F. dentata. Near Braunstone. — Iris pseudacorus. — Scirpus lacustris. — S. 

 setaceus. Charnwood Forest. Near Mount Bosworth. — S. sylvaticus. Near 

 Kirby ruins; Sheet-hedges Wood, near Grooby Pool; Mount Bosworth, near 

 Congerstone ; not rare in the county. — Eleocharis palustris. — E. acicularis. 

 Banks of Grooby Pool. — E.fluitans. Charnwood Forest. — Eriophorum pubescens. 

 Near Loughborough. — E. angustifolium. Grooby Pool. — Nardus stricta. Charn- 

 wood Forest ; about Congerstone. — Alopecurus pratensis. — A. agrestis. Not rare. 

 — A. geniculatus. — Phalaris Canariensis. Near Zouch Mill. — P. arundinacea. 

 — Phleum pratense. — Milium effusum. Nailstone Wigs ; between Mount Bos- 

 worth and Sutton. — Calamagrostis epigejos. In Martinshaw; abundant in Bos- 

 worth Park, and at the Ambien Wood. — Agrostis canina.—A. vulgaris. — A. alba. 

 A. var. pumila. In Sibson Gorse cover. — Catabrosa aquatica. — Air a cristata. 

 Croft Hill. — A. ccEspitosa. — A. flexuosa. Charnwood Forest ; near Braunston. — 

 A. caryophyllea. Near Newtown Unthank.— A. prcecox. Croft Hill.— Melica 

 ttniflora. Charnwood Forest; Ratby Woods; near Mount Bosworth.— M. cce- 

 rulea. Charnwood Forest.— Holcus mollis. Near Newbold Verdun.—//, la- 

 natus. — Arrhenatherum avenaceum. — Poa aquatica. — P. fluitans. — P. trivialis. 



