Olxvl FLORA OF BEflKSHIRE 



than one in which the distribution of the plants should be traced with 

 some degree of completeness. The information given in desciibing the 

 habitats of the species appears to have been obtained more from some 

 general flora than from actual observation of the localities. Some of 

 our rarer plants are given as if widely spread and not needing special 

 localization ; for instance, Anthriscus vulgaris [Cerefolhim Anthriscus) is 

 placed in the same category as Ranunoidus acris. The following species, 

 supplied in all cases by the zeal of Mr. Baxter, were published for the 

 first time in Walker's Flora as Berkshire plants : Iris foeticHssima, 

 Luznla {Jimcoides) congesta, Pyrus tormhialis, and Lactuca virosa. Stratiotes 

 Aloides was inserted on the authority of Mr. Hewlett as growing near 

 Nuneham, but it had possibly been introduced. A considerable 

 number of Berkshire localities are included on the authority of Mr. 

 Baxter, Professor Williams, Mr. Newton Young, a Fellow of New 

 Colleo'e and a very few by Mr. Walker himself. Buhus glandulosus is 

 inserted on the faith of the note in Smith's English Flora, but Walker 

 was unaware that the plant of Smith was not the R. (jlandulosus of 

 Bellardi, but really the R. Koehleri of Weihe and Nees. 

 jVg,^ The first volume of Mr. H-ewett Cottrell Watson's New Botanist's 



Botanist's Guide was published in 1835. It contained many Berkshire localities 

 Guide. which weie to a great extent copied from the Bofanisfs Guide. The 



Winch. additions to our flora are few. Mr. N. J. Winch is the authority quoted 

 for Sagina subulata, Narcissus bljlorus, and Bromus racemosus, his notes 

 beino- written in a copy of the Flora Britannica now in the possession 

 of the Linnean Society. Mr. Winch was born about 1769 and died at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1838 ; in 1807 he published a botanical guide 

 to the counties of Northumberland and Durham, His herbarium of 

 12 000 plants and his manuscripts were left to the Linnean Society, 

 but were subsequently given by it to the Natural History Society of 

 the above-mentioned counties. There is a portrait of Mr, Winch at 

 Kew. De CandoUe named the genus WincJiia after him. 



In the New Botayiist's Guide Mr, Winch also recorded Geranium 

 syhaticiim from meadows above Maidenhead, but this is almost certainly 

 a clerical error for G. pratense. In the same work Rubus suherectus 

 (nessensis) is said, on the authority of the English Flora, to grow about 

 Newbury, but no Berkshire locality is given for that plant in Sir 

 James Smith's work. Calamintlia Nepcta i^C. arvensis) is cited from the 

 Botanical Guide from Wickham, but this possibly means Wycombe in 

 Buckinghamshire. Orobanche coerulea (0, purpurea) also is recorded by 

 Mr. Hurst from near Cookham, but it is almost certain that he mistook 

 the purple-coloured form of 0. Trifolium-pratensis for the 0. purpurea. 

 Lonicera Caprifolmm is stated, on the authority of the Eev. W. Bree, to- 

 occur, apparently wild, in Bagley Wood, SUene quinciuevulnera is said to 

 grow in a cornfield at Newbury, on the authority of the Botanist's Guide, 



