226 EPILOBIACEAE 



hurst. Pangbourn. Unwell Wood. Basildon Wood. Near 

 Bradfield. 



4. Kennet. Wood near Snelsmore Common, Tf.Jlf. JSogrer.s. Roadside 



near Woodhay Common, Bunny in Russell's Cat. Mortimei*, 

 Tufnail. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. Aldermaston Wood. Near the 

 top of Walbury Hill. Brimptou. Pad worth. Tidmarsh. 

 Wickham. 



5. Loddon. Bisham Wood, sparingly, Mill. Wargrave, Watsoyi. 



Early, by the railway, Tufnail. Near Wellington College, Penny 

 in Britt. Contr. Park Place. Chalk pit, Wargrave, Stanton. Brack- 

 nell. Very fine near Sandhurst. Sunninghill. Ambarrow. 

 Bagshot. Haines Hill. Swinley Wood. Windsor Park. 

 Culham woods, near Hurley. 

 Var. BRACHYCAEPUM, Syme, E. B. 1. c, t. 496 = £". brack ycai-pum, 

 Leighton, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. i. viii. (1841} 401. 



This occurs in Bagley Wood, near Didcot, near Pangbourn, near 

 Bracknell, &c. It appears to be usually an escape from gardens. It 

 has shorter and thicker fruits than the following. 



Var. MACROCARPUM, Syme, 1. c, t. 495 = jE, macrocarpum, Steph. in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. (1842) 170, Ser. i. viii, is our commoner form and is 

 undoubtedly a native plant of the woods in the Pang, Kennet, and 

 Loddon districts. 



Epildbium angustifolium is found in all the bordering counties. 



£. Mrsutum, Linn. Sp. PI. 347 (1753% Codlins and Cream, Willoiv Herb. 

 Top. Bot. 161. Syme, E. B. iv. 10, t. 497. Nyman, 246, Fl. Oxf. 116. 

 Native. Paludal. River-, brook-, stream- and pond-sides, very common 



in all the low-lying parts of the county. P. June-September. 

 First record. Neare Binsey is a place, or wall, where groweth a high 

 herb called Lysymachia, as high as a man. Soe Dr. Pelham, A. Wood, 

 Antiq. of Cily of Oxford 1661-6, edited by Rev. A. Clark, 1889'. Red 

 Lysimachion grows plentifully in our Oxford ditches, MS. in Lijte's 

 Herball, 1660. E. Mrsutum, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 The banks of the Thames are often bordered with a profuse growth 

 of this plant, and it forms a rich mass of colouring either in flower or 

 in late autumn when the abundant seed-pods have opened ; in the 

 latter condition it is frequently represented in Keeley Halswelle's 

 paintings of the Thames. Mr. G. D. Leslie in Our River says the Willow 

 Herb and the Loosestrife give the most influential masses of colour. 



E. Mrsutum varies considerably in the degree of hairiness of the 

 leaves, in the size of the flower (white-flowered plants are rare), and in 

 the pubescence of the pods. A subglabrous form (/. viresccns, Haussk.), 

 var. subglabrum, Koch, is not unfrequent. 



1 See also Liber Niger Scaccarii, T. Uearne, ii. 589, 1728, 



