84 ALSIXACEAE 



1. Tsis. Near Inglesham, but only as an escape. 



2. Ock. In Mr. Frewin's Orchard, Blewbiiry, Lousley in BusseU's Cat. 



Meadows, Blewbury, Bosicell in Fl. Oxf. Tubney, Walker. Near 

 Abingdon. Plentiful by a field-road between Radley meadows 

 and the Station. It is well established here, and there is no 

 house in the immediate vicinity. 



3. Pang. By the side of turnpike-road near the Bull Inn, Streatley, 



Lousley. Near Pangbourn. Bradfield. On chalk ballast near 

 Reading. 



4. Kennet. Boxford, Palmer. Snelsmore, evidently the relic of an 



old garden, the double-flowered form. 



5. Loddon. Hedges near Old Windsor, Gotobed, 1. c. Ray Mill near 



Maidenhead, Woods : see Winch MSS. Near Cookham, Everett. 

 Near Maidenhead. 

 Our plant is the glabrous form which is said to be the Linnean 

 type, i. e. Var. glaberrima, Seringe in DC, Prod. i. 365. 



Saponaria occurs in a more or less naturalized condition in all the 

 bordering counties. 



SILENE, Linn. Gen. n. 503 {Viscago, Dill. Hort. Elth. 309). 



S. Cucubalus, Wibel, Prim. Fl. Worth. 241 (1797). Bladder Campion, 

 Spatting Poppy. 



S. inflata, Sm. Fl. Brit. ii. 467 (1800). Cucubalus Behen, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 sine var. b 414 (1753). C. angustifoliiis. Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8 

 (1768). Silene angusti/oUa, Guss. Behen album, Gerard, 550 (1597). 



Top. Bot, 64. Syme, E. B. ii. 56, t. 199. Nyman, 88. Fl. Oxf. 48. 

 Native. Pascual and agrestal. Waysides, cultivated and fallow 

 fields, &c. Very common and generally distributed, but less fre- 

 quent, and indeed disappearing from the uncultivated heath lands 

 of the south-west. P. May-Avigust. 

 First recdrd. Behen album hispidum, Hairy Spatling Poppy, plentiful! 

 about Oxford, Merrett's Pinax, 14, 1666. Also given in Mr. M. 

 Harding's MS. of the i^th Century. Cucubalus behen, Mavors Agr. Berks, 

 1809. 

 The Bladder Campion is a variable species ; the commoner plant in 

 the north and west of the county is glabrous, but in the south, 

 especially in dry chalk fields, a more or less hairy form prevails, which 

 is the plant referred to by Merrett, and is the var. puberula of Hook, 

 fil. Stud. Fl. ed. 3, 55 (1884). S. puberula, Jord. in Boreau, Fl.. du 

 Centi'e Fr. ii. 94, not of Boissier, which occurs as follows. 



1. Isis. Buckland. Idstone. Ashbury. Shrivenham. Near 



Weyland's Smithy. 



2. Ock. Cothill. Cumnor. Uffington. Wantage. Lockinge. Didcot. 



Lowbury. Blewbury, a common form on the Chalk formation. 



