GERANIUM 117 



Wargrave, Stanton. Sonning Meadows, very fine specimens, 

 Tit/nail. Hurley. Coleman's Moor. Near Waltham. Maiden- 

 head. Old Windsor, &c. 

 G. pratensBy which usually has bluish -purple flowers with more blue 

 in them than G. syhaticKm, the tint being one of the most beautiful of 

 any of our native plants, occasionally has them pure white ; I have 

 seen such a case in the Kennet valley near Midgham, but the plant 

 had been destroyed when I next visited the place. 

 G. pratense occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. pyrenaictim, Burm. fil. Spec. Bot. de Geran. 27 (1759). Mountain 

 Crane's-bill. 



G. perenne, Huds. Fl. Angl. 265 ^1762). 

 Top. Bot. 96. Syme, E. B. ii. 196, t. 298. Nyman, 137. Fl. Oxf. 66. 

 Native. Viatical. Roadsides, ditches. Locally common and more 



often found about villages, but yet a native plant of the county. 



P. May-September. 

 First record. Near Oxford, Mr. Woodward in Stokes, With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 



ii. 729, 1787. 



1. Isis. Cumnor, and with pale pink flowers near Besilsleigh, 



BosweU. Carswell, Miss M. Niven. 



2. Oek. South Hinksey, BosweU. Tubney, Walker. Marcham. 



Shippon. With very pale pink flowers at Cothill. Bagley. 

 Kennington. 



3. Pang. Railway-side, Tufnail. 



4. Kennet. North Heath, RusseU's Cut. 1839. Between North Heath 



and Winterbourne, W. M. Rogers. Reading, Tufnail. Theale. 



5. Loddon. Marlow, not very common, Mill. Wokingham, Tic/nail. 



Near Loddon Bridge. Wargrave. Sonning. Near Twyford. 

 G. pyrenaicum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. molle, Linn. Sp. PI. 682 (1753). Boves-foot Cranes-bill. 

 G. Columbinum, Gerard, 793 (not of Linnaeus'). 



Top. Bot. 98. Syme, E. B. ii. 197, t. 299. Nyman, 138. Fl. Oxf. 68. 



Native. Agrestal. Abundant in cornfields, pastures, waysides, 

 heathy places, &c., throughout the county, but is much less fre- 

 quent on the upper chalk downs ; it ascends to the top of Walbury 

 Camp, a height of 959 feet. A. April-December. 



First record. Geranium molle, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



A MS. note (?by W.Browne) of G. columbinum minus dissectis, /lore albo, 



in the Magdalen College copy of [How's] Fhyt. Brit., may possibly 



refer to this plant. 



The flowers vary in colour from white to light purple. The extremes 



of colour are often found together, a fact showing that soil and situa- 



