92 ALSINACEAE 



Ciimnor (see Rep. of But. Exch. Club, 1888', on heath ground near 

 Frilford, and on the White Horse Hill, has the petals of considerable 

 length {form, macropetala) ; it forms a connecting link to C. vulgatum, 

 var. alpinum. 



C. vulgatum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



C. arvense, Linn. Sp. PI. 438 (1753). Field ChickiceecL 



Caryo2}hyllus arvensis hirsutus, flore majore, C. B. Pin. 210. 



Top. Bot. 82. Syme, E. B. ii. 89, t. 225. Baxt. t. 286. NyrHan, 108. 

 Fl. Oxf. 51. 



Native. Glareal. Sandy and calcareous fields, dry banks, and heaths. 

 Local. P. Api*il-July. First record. C. arvense. Corn Mouse- 

 ear. Pretty common, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. EynshamRoad, Baxter MSS. 1812. Near Oxford, Bree in Purt. 



Midi. Flora, 1821. Cumnor. Near Besilsleigh. 



2. Ock. Roadside near Radley, Whitwell. Wallingford. Milton. 



Tubney, Bosicell, in Fl. Oxf. Sunningwell and Frilford, Dyer. 

 Cornfields near Tubney Wood, Laicson. Wantage, Trimen. 

 Marcham, Walker. Lockinge. Uffington. Abingdon Eacecom-se. 

 Besilsleigh. Shippon. Didcot, near the Station. Blewburton 

 Camp. Abundant on King Standing Hill. Blewbury. Abun- 

 dant along the banks of the Ridgeway between Uifington and 

 Letcombe Castle. Near Pusey. On Cherbury Camp as a 

 narrow-leaved form. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Compton. Ilsley. Unwell Downs. 



Abundant in a field recently brought into cultivation on the 

 downs near Moulsford ; the field was quite white with the flowers 

 in the middle of April, 1894. Near Basildon. Yattendon. 



4. Kennet. Abundant from Wantage to Weston, by the Sheffords. 



West Ilsley. 



5. Loddon. Wellington College, Penny. Finchampstead. Wargrave. 



Bracknell. 



Var. GLABEESCENS, Mert. and Koch, occurs near Carswell, Miss M. 

 Niven, and near Bracknell. 



C. arvense, which is fond of dry exposed sunny places, occurs in all 

 the bordering counties. 



STELLARIA, Linn. Gen. n. 504 {Alsine, Tournefort, t. 126). 



S. aqviatica, Scop, Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 319 (1772). ^larsh Mouse-ear 

 Chickiceed. 

 Cerastium aquaficum, Linn. Sp. PI. 439 (1753). Malachium aquaticum, 

 Fries, Fl. Hal. 77 (1817, and of Fl. Oxf. Myosoton aquaticum, 

 Moench, Meth. 225 (1794). Alsine aquatica, leges. 



Top. Bot. 79. Syme, E. B. ii. 91, t. 227. Nyman. 107. Fl. Oxf. 50. 



