214 SAXIFRAGACEAE 



Denizen or native. Hedges, thickets, and woods ; sparingly scattered 



through the county. Shrub. April-May. 

 First record. E. grossularia, Mr. Bicheno in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



In Turville Wood, Compton, near Hampstead Norris, Mr. J. 



Lousley in BusselVs Cat. 1839. Bisham Wood, Mr. G. G. Mill in 



Phyt. i. 987, 1843. 

 The type has the ripe fruit clothed with glandular hairs. I have 

 seen it at Wytham, Buscot, Appleton, Marcham, Bagley Wood, 

 Eadley Wood, Tvibney, Wittenham, Pusey, Unwell Wood, Oare, 

 Basildon, Bradfield, Pangbourn, Ashampstead, Bucklebuiy, Green- 

 ham, Inkpen, Enborne, Kintbury, Park Place, Wargiave, Kuscombe, 

 Sandhurst ; and Mr. Tufnail reports it from Tilehurst, Shinfield, and 

 Wokingham. 



Var. UvA-CRisPA (Linn. 1. c. as a species) = var. puhescens, Koch, Syn. 

 Fl. Germ. 265, has the ripe fruit smooth, the leaves smaller, more 

 pubescent and less shining than those of the preceding variety, than 

 which it is less frequent. I have seen it at Idstone, Appleton. 

 Cumnor, Kingston Bagpuze, Wittenham, Basildon, Yattendon, Hamp- 

 stead Norris, Bucklebury, Sonning, Waltham, Maidenhead, Cookham, 

 &c. A species collected by Mr. W. Hewett in 1840 is in Herh. Brit. 3Ius. 

 Var. RECLiNATUM (Linn. 1. c. as a species), is almost entirely glabrous, 

 and is only of garden origin, as near Cookham, &c. 

 R. Grossularia occurs in all the bordering counties. 

 [**R. ALPiNUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 200 (1753). Syme, E. B. iv. 40, t. 519. Fl. Oxf. 128. 

 Alien. Naturalized near Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire.] 

 R. rubrum, Linn. Sp. PL 200 (1753), and Lobelius. Red Currant. 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 177. Syme, E. B. iv. 40, t. 520. Nyman, 266. Fl. Oxf. 128. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Thickets, woods, borders of shady streams, on 



pollard willows, &c. Local. Shrub. April-May. 

 First record. Bagley Wood, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 1840 (t. 345, dated 1839). 



Kintbury, Mi: W. Hewett, Herh. Brit. Mus. 1841. 



1. Isis. Wytham. By the river Cole, near Strattonborough Castle. 



Shrivenham. 



2. Ock. On pollard willows in Bagley Wood. In a hedge near 



Childswell Farm, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. I. c. In the heads of pollard 

 willows about Blewbury, Lousley in Russell's Cat. By the Ock 

 near Noah's Ark, 



3. Pang. In hedgerows about Hampstead Norris, frequently, 



Lousley, I. c. 



4. Kennet. Woods, West Woodhay. Haycroft. Kintbury, &c., 



Recks, in Britt. Contr. Aldermaston. Hampstead Marshall. 



5. Loddon. By the Loddon near Sandford Mill. Near Hurley. 

 Many of the above localities belong to the garden plant which Syme 



called sub-species R. sativum, the R. rubrum, var. sativum, Reichb. Fl. 



