STELLARIA 93 



Native. Paludal. Ditches, river-banks, wet places, damp spinneys, 

 &c. Locally common and widely distributed, preferring partially 

 shaded places. P. May-October. 



First record. Banks of Thames, near Old Windsor, Berks, July, 

 1802, Winch 3ISS. Included under the erroneous name of S. ne- 

 morum, by Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's Agr. Berks .1809. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Appleton. Bablock Hythe. ' Buscot. Lechlade. 



Skinner's Weir. 



2. Ock. South Hinksey, Baxter, 1827, in Herh. Oxf. Thames 



banks, Laicson. Marcham. Abingdon. Kadley. Shippon. 

 Kennington. Wittenham. Cholsey. 



3. Pang. Pangbourn. Bradfield. Moulsford. Tidmarsh. 



4. Kennet. Brimpton Farm, Fussell's Cat. Near Reading, Carroll, 



in Herb. Brit. Mus. Catmore, Miss Humfretj. Southcote. Beenham. 

 Theale. Padworth. Aldermaston. Kintbury. Mortimer. 



5. Loddon. Near Old Windsor, Winch. Wet places by the river 



[at Marlow], Mill. Near Henley, Stanton. Blackwater, Fenny 

 and Miss C. E. Palmer. Withy eyots at Sonning, Tufnail. Cole- 

 man's Moor. Ascot. Bray. Cookham. Wargrave. Aston. 

 Swallowfield. 

 SteUaria aquatica, which I kept as a separate genus, Malachium, in the 

 Flora of Oxfordshire, is, I think, worthy of that position, but the older 

 name is Myosoton of Moench. It is found in all the bordering counties. 



S. media, Cyrillo, Char. Comm. 36 (1784^ not of Sibth. Common 



Chickiveed. 

 Alsine 7nedia, Linn. Sp. PI. 272 (1753), and of C. B. Pin. 250 (1623). 

 Top. Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 93, t. 229. Nyman, iii. Fl. Oxf. 52. 

 Native. Agrestal, &c. Common almost everywhere, but less frequent 



on the chalk downs. A. Flowers all the year. This species 



and Poa annua are our commonest plants. 

 First record. Alsine media. A troublesome weed. Mavor's Agr. Berks, 



1809. 

 Yar. MAJOR, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 118 (1837), (S. veglecta, Weihe, in 

 Bluff, and Fingerh. Comp. Fl. Germ. i. 560), occurs not unfrequently in 

 moist rich soil, as at Kennington, Abingdon, Pangbourn, Hermitage, 

 Aldermaston, Greenham, Hampstead Marshall, Maidenhead, Windsor 

 Park, &c. In this form the stamens are usually less in number. 



Var. BoRAEANA I Jord. Pugill. 33 (1852) as a species). On dry stone 

 walls a small apetalous form, which has usually much yellower foliage 

 and the stamens often reduced to three in number, is not unfrequent, as 

 at South Hinksey, Wytham, Cumnor, Marcham, Kennington, Abingdon, 

 Shrivenham, Blewbury, Streatley, Pangbourn, Hungerford, Ruscombe, 

 Sonning, Early, Cookham, &c. 



