78 VIOLACEAE 



Station. Finchampstead. Near Wokingham. Bearwood. Cook- 

 ham Dene. Sandhurst. Swinley. 

 Although local in the north and east of the county, this species is 

 frequent in the Kennet and Loddon districts. It appears to be 

 eminently an arenaceous species, and consequently avoids the Oxford 

 and Kimmeridge Clay and the Gault formations. In the Wytham 

 meadows it occurred on a stratum of gravel. 



With the exception of East Gloucestershire it is recorded from all 

 the bordering counties. 



V. lactea, Sm. in E. B. n. 445 (1797). Cream-coloured Violet. 



Top. Bot. 57. Syme, E. B. ii. 22, t. 176. Nyman, 77. Fl. Oxf. 41. 



Native. Ericetal. Heaths. Local. P. April-June. 



First record. From a disused brickfield on a heath-covered waste, 

 by the left side of the road from Bagshot to Ascot Station, just 

 within the county of Berks, Mr. H. C. Watson in Report of Bot. 

 Exch. Chib, 10, 1869. 



4. Kennet. Burghfield Common, Tufnail. Inkpen Common. Mor- 



timer Common. Aldermaston. Near the ' Eound Oak.' 



5. Loddon. Between Bagshot and Ascot, Watson. In one or two 



places on Bagshot Heath. Near Loddon Bridge. 



V. LACTEA xcANiNA— F. lactea var. intermedia, Watson, Rep. Bot. Exch. 

 Club, 10 (1876). This hybrid occurred near Loddon Bridge and on 

 Mortimer West Common. 



Viola lactea is usually found on the clayey portion, but also grows 

 on quite dry parts, of our heathland, and is a very local species in 

 Berkshire, being confined to the London Clay, Beading Beds, and 

 Bagshot Sands ; it is not recorded for Wiltshire or East Gloucester- 

 shire, and is one of the rarest species in Oxfordshire, if indeed it 

 still survives in its solitary locality, which is on an outlier of the 

 London Clay. 



[V. PERSiciFOLiA, Eotli, Tent. Fl. Germ. ii. 271 (1789). 



V. stagnina, Kit. in Scliult. Oest. Fl. 426. Syme, E. B. ii. 22, 1. 177. Nyman, 77. 



The specimen in Herb. Oxf. gathered on Otmoor in 1820, named by 

 Mr. Baxter V. lactea, and recorded in my Oxfordshire Flora, I find belongs 

 to this species, but so far I have been unable to discover other plants. 



Hampshire is the only one of the bordering counties for which it is recorded. ] 



V. tricolor, Linn. Sp. PI. 935 (1753) (Dodoens, 1583). Heartsease, 

 Wild Pansy. 



Top. Bot. 57. Syme, E. B. ii. 25, t. 178. Nyman, 80. Fl. Oxf. 43. 

 Native. Agrestal. Cultivated ground. A. or B. Common. January- 

 November. 

 First record. V. tricolor. Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Viola tricolor, using the name in an aggregate sense, is generally 



