26 RANUNCULACEAE 



H. viridis, Linn. Sp. PI. 558 (1753}. Bear's-foot, Wild Black Hellebore. 

 H. niger hortensis /lore viridi, Ray, Syn. 271. Helleborastrum, Gerard, 825. 



Top. Bot. 16. Syme, E. B. i. 56, t. 44. Nyman, 17. Fl. Oxf. 12, 13. 



Denizen or native. Sylvestral. Woods and bushy places, rare. P. 

 March-May. 



First record. Newbury, Mr. Sheffield's MS. 1790, in Oxf. Bot. Lib. Pub- 

 lished by Mr. J. Lousley in Russell's Cat. 1839. 



2. Ock. Near Pusey, Miss M. Niven. 



3. Pang. Tidmarsh near Pangbourn. Beechwood, Hampstead 



Norris, Lousleij, I. c. Beechwood, Wood's Farm, Ilsley, Hewetfs 

 Hist. Near Basildon. 



4. Kennet. Near Newbury, Sheffield MS. Near Enborne, Weaver. 

 Our plant is the vur. occidentalis (Reuter, Cat. Grain. 1868 [see 



Schiffn. Mon. Helleb. 138], as a species), Druce, in Journ. Bot. (1890) 

 227. It appears to be the common western form, chiefly differing- 

 from the type in being glabrous. 



//. viridis, var. occidentalis occurs in all the bordering counties, and 

 is undoubtedly native in Oxford and Bucks. 



HEIiLEBOBOIDES, Adans, Fam. ii. 458 (1763). 



** H. hyemaijE, Ktintze, Eev. Gren. PL 3 (1891). Winter Aconite. 



Eranthis hyemalis, Salisb. in Linn. See. Trans, viii. (1807) 303. Helleborus 

 hyemalis^ Linn. Sp. PL 557 (1753). 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 477. Syme, E. B. i. 55, t. 43. Nyman, 18. FL Oxf. 13. 

 Alien. Plantations, parks, &c. Rare, and never as a native plant. P. Jan.- 

 March. 

 2. Ock. Bagley Wood, C'7-awley, 1889 (still there in 1895, but evidently the 

 remains of a garden). Marcliam, Wcdker. Hedge-bank, Cliallow, 

 near Wantage (no garden near), Whiticell. Besilsleigh. Sunningwell, 

 4. Kennet. Park-like meadows, Bvirghfield, Tufnail, in Fl. Oxf. 

 The Winter Aconite is only an escape from cultivation in Britain. 

 Since Bentham and Hooker admit the genns Mniodes into the Genera 

 Plantarum, logically we appear bound to admit Adanson's name of Htlle- 

 boroides for the above plant, as proposed by Kuntze. 



AQUILEGIA, Linn. Gen. PI. n. 605 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 242. 



A. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 533 (1753). Columbine. 



A. coerulea, Gerard, 935. A. sylvestris, C. B. Pin. 144. Aquilina, 



Matth. et Lobel (1576). 

 Top. Bot. 17. Syme, E. B. i. 60, t. 46. Nyman, 18. Baxt. t. 221. 



Fl. Oxf. 14. 

 Native. Sylve.-stral. Woods and thickets and rarely in marshes. 



Local. P. May-July, 

 First record. A. vulgaris. Dr. Noehden and Mr. Bicheno in Mavor's 



Agr. Berks, 1809. 



