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villages and outlying old English farms.' Among the species gathered 

 in the Forest district, east and north of Virginia Water, including 

 Cranbourn Chase, are Fragaria hercheriensis, Buhus Koehleri, var. pallichis, 

 R. raclula, R. villicaulis, Potentilla procumhens, Cynoglossum vulgare, Tyx>ha 

 angustifolia, Bidens cernua, and Juncus compressus. 



The woodland country to the south and west of Virginia Water is 

 the richer in plants ; the close short turf surrounding Virginia Water 

 yields Sagina siibidata, S. ciliata, Cerastium quaternellmn, Myosotis versicolor, 

 Aira praecox, A. caryophyUea, Plantago Coronopiis, Carex Jlava, C. pihdifera, 

 Sieglingia, Biida rubra, and Jimcus squairosiis. 



The waterside has a rich sedge vegetation comprising Carex canescens, 

 C. paniculata, C. acuiiformis, C. riparia, C. acvta, C. Goodenowii, C. echinata, 

 C. remota, C. vidpina, C. muricata, C. /lacca, and C. disticha ; and in addition 

 to these are found Acorus Calamus, Iris Pseudacorus, Lysimachia vulgaris, 

 Equisetum limosum, Oenanthe crocaia, Alnus ghdinosa, Epilohium parvijlorum, 

 E. palustre, E. obscurum, Mijosotis pcdustris, M. cespitosa. Ranunculus Flammula, 

 Lythrimi Salicaria, Molinia varia, Typha ladfolia, Eupatorlum cannabinnm, 

 and Bidens cernua. 



In the Lake are found Ranuncidus peltatus, Potamogefon obtusifolius, 

 P. alpinus, P. densum, P. crispum, P. nutans, P. polygonifolius, P. lucens, 

 Myriophyllum spicatum, M. verticillatum, Litforella, Juncus bulbosus, Eleocharis 

 acicularis, E. pcdustris, Scirpus Jluitans, Nymphaea lutea, Casfalia speciosa, 

 Kitella 02xica, and in the Surrey portion Elatine hexandra. 



In damp, shady places in the vicinity occurs, in one of its few 

 British localities, a hybrid ScuteUaria, which was discovered by my 

 friend Mr. Nicholson in this place, growing with both its assumed 

 parents. 



The gravelly uplands in the Forest and Park give Echium vidgare, 

 Hieracium sciaphilum, H. umbelMum, H. boreale, H. rigidum var., Solidago, 

 Erigeron acre, Beschampsia Jlexuosa, Cynoglossum officinale, Malva moschata, 

 Bigitcdis, Cerastium semidecandrum, Carex leporina, C. pihdifera, C. binervis, 

 Agrostis canina, Festuca rigida, Hypericum pulchrum, H. humifusum, Erica 

 cinerea, Melampxjrum pratense, Veronica officinalis, Teucrium Scorodonia, Filago 

 minima, and Omithopus perpusillus. 



The arable fields bordering on Windsor Park, near the Surrey 

 border, occasionally afford that beautiful grass, ^pem Spica-venti. 



The once celebrated and fashionable watering-place of Sunningwell 

 is still interesting to the botanist for its historic piece of bog, which 

 was a favourite hunting-place of the botanists of the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries, including Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Lightfoot, Dr. 

 Goodenough, and others. 



The bog, although it has suffered much from the encroachment of 

 the railway which passes through it, and by the building operations 

 which are going on, still affords Carex canescens and C. rostrata, also 



