LYCHNIS 89 



First record. L. Flos-cuculi, Dr. Noeliden, Mavor'sAgr. Berks, 1809. Witli 

 white flowers in a lane leading out of the Abingdon Road to 

 Bagley Wood, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 71. Wet meadows, Marlow 

 frequent, Mr. G. G. Mill in Phyt. i. 984, 1843. 



When the flowers are nearly sessile it is the var. congesta, Lee. et 

 Lamotte, Cat. 98. 



The Eagged Robin is much too abundant and too widely di^5- 

 tributed to render it necessary to give special localities. Some of the 

 Thames meadows are a beautiful sight from the profusion of its blossoms. 

 The banks of the railway between Bracknell and Wokingliam and the 

 Kennet meadows show it in great beauty. It is very abundant in 

 Hampstead Marshall Park. I have seen it with white flowers in 

 Wytham, in Bagley, at Moulsford and Tidmarsh, and with very pale 

 flowers in Nyot meadows near Abingdon. 



L. Flos-cuculi is common in all the bordering counties. 



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It. Gitlxago, Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2, i. 310 (1772). Corn Cockle. 



Agrostemma Githago, Linn. Sp. PL 435 (1753). Githago, Dodoens. 

 G. segetum, Link, Diss. Bot. Suerin. 62 (1795). 



Top. Bot. 68. Syme, E. B.ii. 74, t. 215. Baxt. t. 175. Nyman, 85. 



Fl. Oxf. 46. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfield, chiefly on a light soil, rather local. 



A. June-August. 

 First record. Agrostemma githago. Too common, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Pusey, Boswell. Cars well, Miss M. Niveji. Fields near 



Buckland. 



2. Ock. Tubney, Walker. Ferry Hinksey. Frilford. Abingdon. 



Shippon. Blewbury. Marcham. Dry Sandford. Bradfield, 

 Jeiikinson. 



3. Pang. Tidmarsh. Bucklebury. Moulsford. Basildon. Tilehurst. 



Streatley. Hermitage. 

 i. Kennet. Near Newbury, EasseU's Cat. Very plentiful near 

 Shefford. Mortimer. Padworth. Kintbury. Theale. Near 

 Bagnor. 

 5. Loddon. Common fields opposite Bishani woods, &c.. Mill. 

 Near Wellington College, Penmj. Remeuham, Stanton. Fields at 

 Sonning, Tiifnail. Near Virginia Water. Ascot. Jouldern's 

 Ford. Farley Hill. Clewer. Maidenhead. Hurley. Wargrave. 

 Cookham. 

 L. Githago usually has the segments of the calyx much longer than 

 the corolla, but I saw a specimen in a field near Moulsford where they 

 scarcely exceeded it. This is probably the Agrostemma Githago^ var. 

 microcalyx, Doell, Fl. Baden. 1232. 



L. Githago is found in all the bordering counties. 



