Ixiv FLORA OF BEKKSHIRE 



Veronica diclyma. V. Tournefortli, V. montana, V. officinalis, V. scutellata, 

 Pedicidaris sylvatica, P. palustris, Melampyrum pratense, Orohanche Trifolium- 

 pratensis, Pinguicula vulgaris, Verbena officinalis, Mentha piperita. Origanum, 

 Calamintha Clinopodiurn., C. arvensis, C. x>arviflora. Salvia Verbenaca, Nepeta 

 Cataria, Stachtjs Betonica, S. arvensis, Melissa officinalis, Lamium amplexicaide, 

 L. Galeobdolon, Texicrium Scorodonia, Plantago media, P. Coronopus, Scleranthus 

 annims. Chenopodium poltjspermum, C. Bonus-Henria^s, C. rubrum, Atriplex 

 deltoidea, Polygonum Bistorta, P. dumetorum, Rumcx acutus, Daphne Laureola, 

 Euphorbia amygdaloides, Humidus Lxipidus, Betida alba, Qiiercus Robur, var. 

 sessdijlora, Scdix. Smiihiana, S. aiirita, NeoUia Nidus-avis, Epipactis latifolia, 



E. palustris. Orchis pyramidalis, 0. ustulata ? 0. morio, 0. latifolia, Ophrys 

 apifera, Habenaria conopsea, H. viridis, H. hifolia, H. chloroleuca, Iris foeti- 

 dissima. Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, N. major, Tamus, Convallaria majalis, 

 Allium vinecde, A. ursinum, Gagea, Juncus compressus, J. diffusus, Juncoides 

 sylvaticum, Triglochin palustre, Eleocharis multicauHs, Scirpus paucijlorxis, S. 

 setaceus, Eriophorum angustifolium, E. latifolium, Carex dioica, C. pulicaris, 



C. disticha, C. divulsa, C. leporina, C. acida, C. Goodenoivii, C. pilulifera, C. 

 verna, C. paVescens, C. fulva, C. /lava, C. hirta, Milium effusum,* Agrostis 

 canina, Calamagrostis epigeios, Aira carxjophyllea, A. 2}'>'(iscox, Deschampsia 

 flexuosa, Holcus mollis, Triseiwn prcdense, Avena piibescens, A. pratensis, 

 Sieglingia, Melica uniflora, Poa nemoralis, Panicularia plicata, Festuca rigida, 



F. sciuroides, F. ovina, Bromus erecius, B. secalinus, Agropyron caninum, 

 Nardus sfricta, Blechnum Spicant, AtMjrium Filix-foemina, Dryopieris dilatata, 



D. spimdosa, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Equiseium maximum, E. palustre, E. syl- 

 vaticum, &c. 



The summit of Boar's Hill affords one of those views which are to 

 be seen only in England, a view which extends over a broad expanse 

 of country that is at once well wooded and yet highly cultivated, and 

 which has a special feature in the spires and towers of a classic city 

 set like a gem in its centre ; such a view when seen in an evening in 

 late summer, before the corn is gathered in, astonishes the beholder 

 with the revelation of beauty which it presents to the gaze. From 

 these heights the whole of the Ock valley can be seen, the eye ranging 

 southwards as far as to the abrupt escarpment of the White Horse 

 Hill, and the Eidgeway marked by the British Camps of Uffington, 

 Letcombe, Cuckhamsley, with Blewbury and Lowbury Castles, east- 

 wards to Sinodun, guarding Dur-ceaster, the fort by the water, and 

 south of east to the slopes of the Oxfordshire Chalk range, on which 

 are the Chiltern Hundreds looking almost black where the turf is 

 replaced by woodland, as at Nuffield and Shirburn. Westward, the 

 prospect reaches to Faringdon Clumps standing up dark against the 

 sky, and Cherbury Castle hidden in the trees, the traditional home of 

 Canute, in the fiat tract of the vale, through which the many branches 

 of the river slowly wind unseen, till the eye is carried on to the spires 



