LYCHNIS 87 



Stanton. Twyford. Maidenliead. Hurley. Sunninghill. 



Sandhurst. 

 S. nocti/lora, which is found in all the bordering counties, is much 

 more frequent than the foregoing records show, but it can scarcely be 

 classed among our common plants. The flowers, which are yellow on 

 the outside and rose-coloured on the inside, offer a ready means of 

 distinguishing it at a glance from the much commoner Lychnis alba. 



LYCHWIS, Linn. Ger. n. 517 i^Tournefort, Inst. t. 175). 

 la. dioica, Linn. Sp. PI. 437 vi753)- -^^^ Caynpion. 



L. dioecia, Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). L. dhirna, Sibth. Fl. Ox. 



145 (1794). Silene diurna, Gren. and Godr. Fl. Fr. i. 217. Melan- 



drium syhestre, Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. i. 274 (1796). 

 Top. Bot. 67. Syme, E. B. ii. 69, t. 211. Nyman, 86. Fl. Oxf. 47. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, hedges, railway-banks, shady places, &c. 



Locally plentiful. P. April-September. 

 First record. Lychnis sylvestris minus hirsuta Jlore ruhdlo simplici circa 



Oxonium in fossis et ad margines sepium silvarumque humi- 



diorum passim, Morison, Hist. Ox. ii, 541, 1680. Given as L. deioca 



in Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Bourton. Ashbury. Faringdon. Appleton. Pusey. 



Wytham. Cumnor fields, &c. Rather plentiful and generally 

 distributed in this district. 



2. Ock. Uffington Wood. Pusey. Tubney. Frilford. Bagley. 



Cumnor. Boar's Hill Range. Near Radley. Cothill. Wittenham, 

 &c. Rather common in this district, but less plentiful in the 

 centre of the Vale. 



3. Pang. Tilehurst, Tufnail. By the Pang, near Bradfield. Near 



Tidmarsh. Unwell Wood. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, RusselVs Cat Mortimer, Tufnail. Very 



abundant in Riever Wood near Walbury Camj). In 1890, when 

 the brushwood had been cleared, it occurred in so great pro- 

 fusion as to be noticeable for more than a mile away. Hodcott. 

 Catmore. Farnborough, &c. 



5. Loddon. Windsor, Bolton King. Near Finchampstead. Sand- 



hurst. Arborfield. Wellington College. Crowthorn. Sonning. 



Ashley Hill, &c. Mr. Stanton tells me it is almost absent from 



the disti'ict round Park Place. 

 The flowers A^ary in tint from deep crimson to white, but the pale- 

 flowered forms are not always owing to hybridity. They occur 

 frequently with the type, as at Appleton, Wytham, Cumnor, Walbury 

 Camp, &c. A small-flowered form has been noticed at Idstone, 

 Ashbury, and Appleton. The foliage is sometimes of a yellowish 

 green colour 



