CiXXxiv FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



Lecogiij Fumaria densijlara, F. Vaillantii, F. parvijlora, Leinclium Draha, Viola 

 pci-mixta, Hypericum dubium, TrifoUum scahrum, T. strialum, Lathyrus Aphaca, 

 Primus domestica, Rubns macrophyllus, R. thyrsoideus (j)ubescens\ R. radulo, 

 Sedum album, Pimpinella magna, Apium graveolens (native), Filago spathidata, 

 Crepis taraxacifolia, TJtricnlaria minor, Chenopodium hybridum, Potamogeton 

 Friesii, P. {jnnceus) internqytus. Orchis incarnafa, Habenaria bifolia, Spar- 

 ganium neglectmn, Scirpus pauciflorus, Eleocharis multicaxdis, Carex axillaris, 

 Phalaris canariensis. Festuca Myuros, and Cliara fragilis. About forty- 

 species were added therefore to the list of Berkshire plants, including 

 nine non-indigenous species. 



Since the appearance of the Flora of Oxfordshire in 1886 little has 

 been published on the botany of Berkshire. In the Journal of Botany 

 for 1887 (p. 339) the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, the eminent batologist, 

 gave an enumeration of the plants which he noticed about Beedon. 

 In this list Mimulus was recorded for the first time, and the author 

 claimed as additions to the county flora Rxdms Borreri [Sprengelii), R. 

 diversifolius, R. flcxuosus {foliosus), R. dentatiis, R. calvatus (villicaidis), and 

 R. corylifolius, var. conjungerts. In the same journal. 1888, p. 156, Mr. Rogers 

 published the following species of Rub^is which liad been naixied by 

 Prof. Babington, and which Mr. Rogers considered to be new to the 

 county — Rubus nitidus, R. incurvatus, R. car23inifoJius, and R. saxicohis. 

 ■ Some of these had been already found by me. In 1890 Hawkins' Guide 

 to Newbury and the Neighbourhood was published, the whole arranged 

 and edited by F. G. Bennett, F.G.S. It contained a list of about 170 

 plants, chiefly supplied by my friend Mr. H. Weaver, the station- 

 master of Newbiirj". Both Berkshire and Hampshire localities ai-e 

 given. Oenothera biennis, under the name of 0. vulgaris, is mentioned for 

 the first time as occurring in the county. In the Journal of Botany I gave, 

 in 1892, an account of the most interesting discovery in Berkshire of 

 Illecebrum verticillatum by my friend Mr. A. R. Fisher, and of that oi Arno- 

 seris pusilla by his father, Mr. W. W. Fisher of Oxford. In 1893 I re- 

 corded the discovery by my friend Mr. Tufnail of Galium sylvestre, and on 

 p. 327 of the Journal of Botany for 1893 will be found some notes con- 

 tributed by me on the flora of Berkshire, and a request for information 

 respecting some of the doubtful plant -records, which did not however 

 elicit any fresh knowledge. The various Reports of the Botanical Exchange 

 and Record Clubs, published since 1885, contain notices of several of my 

 additions to the flora of Berkshire : Carex distans in 1885 ; Potamogeton plan- 

 iagineus {coloratum) in 1886 ; Rosa septum {ag^-estis) and Nitella translucens in 

 1887 ; two casuals, Erysimum (Couringia) orientate, Bunias orientalis, &c, and 

 several varieties in 1888 ; Myosotis sylvatica, Carex elongata, and C. strigosa 

 in 1890 ; Mentha affinis, Buda ynarina, Polygonum dumetorum, Carex stricta 

 {elata), Tolypella glomerata, and some casuals in 1891 ; Fumaria confusa, 

 Stellaria umbrosa, Ruhus pyramidalis, R. Schlechtendalii, R, rudis-vcrUy Gen- 



