ROSA 197 



number of few-flowered spikes, was found growing with the ordinary 

 form at Bradfield in 1894. 



P. pohjgamum is found in Hants, Wilts, Surrey, Bucks (near Marlow), 

 and Oxfordshire. 



P. officinale, A. Gray, in Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. (1868) 340. Great Burnet. 

 P. sylvesiris, Gerard, 889. Sanguisorha officinalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 116, a 



(1753)- 

 Top. Bot. 154. Syme, E. B. iii. 132, t. 421. Nyman, 239. FL Oxf. in. 

 Native. Pratal. Damp meadows. Locally common. P. May-August. 

 First record. Burnet. It grows in all our Oxford meadows, MS. in 



Lyte's Herhall, 1660. Sanguisorha officinalis, Mr. Bicheno in Mavor's 



Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Cumnor meadows, abundant, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 269, In 



the Wytham meadows. Buscot. Near Appleton. 



2. Ock. In all the pastures about Blewbury, Louslcy, in BusselVsCat 



Sandford in Thames meadows, Bxjer. Streatley, PamjJlin. Eadley. 

 Abingdon. 



3. Pang. In all the pastures about Hampstead Noi-ris, Lousley, L c. 



not seen by me). Near Tilehurst. 



4. Kennet. Ditches about Greenham Mill, Bicheno, I.e. Theale. 



Padworth. Benham. Thatcham. Southcote. Kintbury. 



5. Loddon. Sonning, Budge (where it is still abundant). Twyford. 



Near Sandhurst and Wellington College. 

 P. officinale occurs in all the bordering counties. 



ROSA, Linn. Gen. n. 556 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 408). 



R. SPiNosissiMA, Linn. Sp. PI. 491 (1753), var. pimpinellifolia (Linn. Syst. 

 ed. 10, 1062 (1759), as a species). Top. Bot. 148. Syme, E. B. iii. 203, t. 461. 

 Fl. Oxf. 109. 



? Error or alien. In Mavor's Agr. Berks of 1809 the Burnet Rose, B. sx>ino- 

 sissima, is recorded from 'Heaths, &c.' on the authority of Mr. Bicheno, but 

 I have been unable to verify the statement, although I have frequently 

 searched for it. On Greenham Common a plant occurs in a hedge, but this 

 is obviously a garden escape, and is not the wild form. The record in 

 Mr. Britten's Contributions, taken from the Wellington Coll. Report, is also an 

 error. The wood near Blackwater Ford, where it was said to grow, does not 

 yield it. The Rev. C. W. Penny tells me he has no doubt it was recorded in 

 error for an escaped Sweet Briar. 



The Burnet Rose is recorded for Surrey, Hants, and Oxfordshire, but it is 

 doubtfully native in the latter county. 



[B. viLLosA, Linn. Sp. PI. 491 (1753). R. mollis, Sm. E. B. t. 2459 (1812). R. mol- 



lissima, Willd. Prod. Fl. Berl. 437 (1787), teste Indice Kewensi. 

 Top. Bot. 149. Syme, E. B. iii. 208, t. 466. Nyman, 232. Fl. Oxf. 104. 

 First record. R. villosa, Mr, H. Boswell in Phyt. n. s. iv. 100, i860. 



2. Ock. On the edge of Bagley Wood. Tnbney. Foxcombe Hill, Boswell. 



In the Rep. Bot. Rec. Club for 1880, a plant which I sent as R. mollis was 

 reported on by Dr. F, Arnold Lees as having ' the prickles of the fruit-bearing 



