Cll FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



from Gerard, Parkinson, or de TObel. The place of growth of each 

 species is noticed, and the h)calities of the rarer ones are given. 

 About 1,220 plants, including a few mosses and fungi, are enumerated, 

 but many are only varieties, and a few (above thirty) are not native. 

 In this work fifteen records are of special interest as commemorating 

 local habitats. The first is that of 'Adianthum album ... on the walls 

 of the King's walkes at Windsor ' ; this is Asplenium Ruia-muraria, L. 

 The second of ' Aristolochia longa, Long Berthwort, beyond Kedding/ 

 which is A. Clematitis, L. Ray afterwards cast doubts upon this 

 record. The third of ' Armeria Jlore simplici, William with single 

 flower, in a wood beyond Redding/ The identity of this record is 

 not made out with certainty ; it possibly refers to Bianthus deltoides, L. 

 The fourth record is that of Camelina, Ger. ' This groweth about one 

 mile from Redding.' This plant is Erysimum Cheiranthoides, L. The 

 fifth plant is ' Chamaelinum stellatum. Starred dwarf flax. Beyond 

 Redding.' The description given in Parkinson's Tlieatrum on p. 1336 

 is as follows : ' Dwarfe wilde Flax with starre-like flowers. The 

 whole plant is scarce three inches high, having but one or two very 

 small stalks at the most, and as small leaves ending in a very sharpe 

 point ; the flowers are few and small, made of five narrow pale 

 greene leaves, pointed at the ends and standing forth in that manner 

 that every flower resembleth a starre with a round umbone in the 

 middle.' 



We may almost certainly identify How's plant with Centimcidus ; 

 if so, it is the first British record. Parkinson's plant is evidently 

 Asierolinum, and How probably confused it with Centuncuhis. The 

 sixth record is of ' Cirsium Anglicum minus, Park., the Lesser single- 

 headed Thistle, on Duckleton Lottes in Berkeshire, Mr. Stonehouse.' 

 This record is ambiguous, since Ducklington is in Oxfordshire ; and 

 I am unable to find any such plant in the Tlieatrum. Cnicus 

 acaulis, which the locality suggests, is called Carlina in the Tlieatrum. 

 Cnicus pratensis, of which it may be a small form, is already on I'ecord 

 for Berkshire. The seventh plant, ^ Echium flore albo, Viper's Buglosse 

 with white flowers, neere Oxford,' is doubtless Echium vidgare, L. 

 The locality given may be in either county. The eighth record is 

 again an ambiguous one. The plant is termed ' Euphrosine Jlore albo, 

 Eyebrigbt, Cow- wheat with white flowers, neer Oxford, Mr. Martin.' 

 A white-flowered form of Euphrasia may be intended, as the English 

 name suggests, or Bartsia Odontites, a more likely plant to occur, or 

 again Melampyrum pratense, to which the name Cow-wheat is usually 

 applied, or lastly, Echium vulgare, which Parkinson terms Euphrosine. 

 The choice of the last name is rendered less happy by the fact that 

 How has just before mentioned that species ; however, this is not 

 conclusive, since both How and Gerard were not by any means well 



