lOO ALSINACEAE 



Wellington College Station, Ambarrow. Near Bracknell. 

 Whitemoor Bog, by the side of the railway. Long Moor. Near 

 Sandhurst College. Abundant in Windsor Park near the 

 gravel-pits. Very abundant by the roadside between Sandhurst 

 Military College and Swinley, In Swinley woods. By the 

 railway between Ascot and Bi-acknell ; in profuse flower May, 

 1895. A noticeable feature by the bare roadsides in the heathy 

 district when the flowers are open. 

 Saghm subidata is not recorded for Oxfordshire or East Gloucester- 

 shire, and is only recorded from Iver Heath in the county of Bucks in 

 the Botanisfs Guide, 1805, but is on record for Surrey, Hants, and 

 Wiltshire. 



S. nodosa, Fenzl. Verb. Alsineen, t. ad p. 18 (1835) (1833, Pritzel . 



Knotted Spurrey. 



Spergula nodosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 440. AJsine nodosa Germanica, C. B. 

 Pin. 251. 



Top. Bot. 72. Syme, E. B. ii. 125, t. 251. Nyman, 120. Fl. Oxf. 55. 

 Native. Paludal. Damp heaths, meadows, and commons. Local 



and rather rare. P. July- August. 

 First record. Spergula nodosa, Mr. Bicheno, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 2. Ock. Wootton Heath, Bosivell. Between South Hinksey and 

 Bagiey Wood, Baxter, 1831. Boar's Hill, Garnsey. Tubne5% 

 Walker. On the downs near Upton, Miss Fry, 1895. Marcham. 



4. Kennet. Bagnor Marsh, BusselVs Cat. 1839. Peat pits about 



Newbury, Bicheno, 1809. (In the same place, 1894.) Kintbury, 

 Elcot, Reeks, in Britt. Confr. 



5. Loddon. Winter Hill and Cookham Down, Mill. 



All the Berkshire specimens which I have seen have been glabrous. 

 The variety glandulosa .Besser, Prim. Fl. Gal. ex Nym. Consp. 120, as 

 a species) is usually a plant of maritime localities. 



Spergtda nodosa, though perhaps not equally grateful to animals as the 

 Spergida arvensis, naturally overruns the peat pits on the Kennet, and there- 

 fore might be sown with certain effect in such situations, flavor's Agric. 

 Berks, 292. 



Sagina nodosa, which is very local indeed in Berkshire, is recorded 

 for all the bordering counties. 



SPERGULA, Linn. Gen. n. 519 (Dill. Gen. ^). 

 S. arvensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 440 (1753), and of Herb. Linn. Corn Spurrey, 

 S. arve^isis, L. var. vidgaris, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 121 (1837). S. vul- 

 garis, Boenn. Prod. Fl. Monast. 135 (1834). Saginae Spei-gula, Ger. 

 Em. 1 125. 



Top. Bot. 73. Syme, E. B. ii. 127, t. 253 ; but the seeds are the seeds 

 of S. sativa. Nyman, 121. Curt. Fl. Lond. v. t. 31. Fl. Oxf. 57. 



