I04 PORTULACEAE ELATINACEAE 



MONTIA, Linn. Gen. 96 (Micheli, Nov. PI. Gen. 17). 

 M. fontana, Linn. Sp. PL 87 (1753). Blinks, Water Chickweed. 



Cameraria arvensis minor, Dill. Cat. Giss. 46. C. fontana, Moench, 

 Meth. 520. 



Top. Bot. 173. Syme, E. B. ii. 136, t. 259. Nyman, 253. Baxt. 

 t. 196. Fl. Oxf. 123. 



Native. Uliginal, &c. Wet places on heathy ground. Locally 

 common. Much scarcer in the north and central parts of the 

 county. Common and generally distributed on the damper heath- 

 land of the south and west. A. or P. April-September. 



First record. Ilontia fontana, Small Water Chickweed, Dr. Noehden, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Near Tubney. 



2. Ock. Bagley Wood, Baxter in Walk. Fl. Powder Hill Copse, 



Boswell. Frilford. 



3. Pang. Bucklebury Common. Bradfield. Hawkridge. Frilsham. 



Cold Ash Common. Oare Common. 



4. Kennet. Near Aldern Bridge, Weaver. Wickham Heath. 



Greenham Common. Snelsmore Common. Mortimer. Alder- 

 maston. Burghfield. Hampstead Marshall. Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. Near Park Place, Stanton. Spencer's Wood Common. 



Long Moor. Stubbing's Heath. Windsor Great Park. Brack- 

 nell. Easthampstead. Finchampstead. Bearwood. Early. 

 Sandhurst. Warren Row, &c. 



Var. MINOR. All. Fl. Ped. i. 79 (1785^ is the usual form, and is 

 the small plant found on heathlands. The var. major. All. 1. c, is 

 the larger plant which is found on Greenham Common, in Windsor 

 Park, and in other places. Persoon subsequently in his Synojjsis, i. iii 

 (1805), gave the names erecta and repens to the two varieties of M.funtana. 

 Gmelin considered them to be species. 



Montia occurs in all the bordering counties. 



ELATINACEAE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 88 (1836). 

 ELATINE, Linn. Gen. n. 451 (Potatnopithys, Buxb.). 

 E. hexandra, DC, Fl. Fr. 609 (1815: and Ic. PI. Ear. i. 14, t. 43 (1808). 

 E. tripetala, Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 243, not of Schkuhr. 



Cyb. Brit. i. 188, Berkshire. Top. Bot. 62. Syme, E. B. ii. 141, t. 262. 

 Nyman, 123. Fl. Oxf. 46. 



Native Lacustral. Borders of ponds, very local and rare. A. July- 

 August. 



First record. Elatine tripetala, near Binfield, Mr. T. F. Forster in Sm. 

 Engl. Flora, ii. 243, 1824. In vol. iv. 266 of the same work the 



