MIDDLESEX PLANTS. 339 



ValeriancUa auricula. Between Eastcote and Northwoocl (new 

 record). 



Crcpis taraxacifolia. Thames side near Hampton Court (new 

 record). — C. biennis. In great iDrofusion in a meadow by Wood 

 Hall, near Pinner ; and again abimdaut in meadows about Hare- 

 field. Beyond doubt therefore a well-established species in Middle- 

 sex. Specimens are also occasionally met with about Iver Heath, 

 in Bucks, a mile or two from Uxbridge. 



Orchis pijramidalis. Several plants near Harefield ; and sparingly 

 on the downs near Springwell. — 0. militaris. Several plants north 

 of Harefield.— 0. (ati/olia. Meadow near Uxbridge. — 0. incarnata. 

 Meadows near Drayton Ford. 



Opkrys apifera. Frequent on hilly pastures about Harefield and 

 Springwell. 



Hahenaria chJorantha. Several plants near Harefield. It is a 

 curious fact that none of the Orchids reported by Blackstone 

 and Collinson to be abundant in the old chalk-pits at Harefield, 

 about the middle of the last century, have ever been found there 

 since. It is noticeable also that they were all stated to be collected 

 in this one spot only, and nowhere else in the neighbourhood. A 

 cursory search of a few hours, however (assisted by my son and 

 nephew), was sufiicient to prove that they are not all of them 

 extinct, as hitherto supposed, and that they are to be found, more- 

 over, in stations beyond the area of the old chalk-pits. It is 

 possible that others may hereafter be added to the list ; for a much 

 closer survey of the district is yet required to exhaust the chances 

 of further discovery. 



Luzula Forsteri. Pinner Wood (confirming Mr. Hind's record). 



Eriophorum poh/stachion. Moors below Springwell Lock. 



Carex paradoxa. Extremely abundant on the moors below 

 Springwell Lock ; in meadows between Denham Lock and Hare- 

 field Moor ; and not infrequent by the side of ditches and canals 

 from Denham Lock to the boundary. It grows also in the con- 

 tiguous meadows of Herts. I at first concluded that this was a 

 new record for Middlesex, but have since discovered that Mr. 

 Warren gathered a specimen by the " canal near West Drayton," 

 which he queried C. paradoxa /, and which it undoubtedly is. A 

 straggler had therefore found its way some five or six miles lower 

 down the valley. 



Arena pubescens. Very abundant in all the meadows round 

 Harefield, Springwell, and Drayton Ford. It is strange that both 

 this and the preceding, two of the commonest plants in our district, 

 should for so many years have escaped detection. Up to the date 

 of publication of Trimen and Dyer's ' Flora of Middlesex ' there 

 had been no record of A. irubescens (save as a casual in 1688). Dr. 

 Trimen collected a specimen in 1871 from " Hillingdon Place, near 

 Uxbridge," but this could only have been a straggler from the 

 chalk ; for, although living on the spot myself, I have never noticed 

 it there, nor, indeed, anywhere nearer than the Harefield district, 

 where it abounds. I gathered several plants of this species and 

 Bromus erectus in the spring on the tow-path near Hampton Court ; 



