264 KUBIACEAE 



Native. Uliginal. Wet heaths, marshes, among nishes on the borders 



of ponds. &c. Local. P. June-August. 

 First record. Aparine palustris minor Parisiensis flore cUbo . . . Chilswell 



ubi copiose crescit vera planta, Dr. Dillenius in Herb. Oxf. 1730. 



Specimens from this locality were sent to the Bot. Exch. Club in 



1892 by the author. G. ultginosum, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Ayr. 



Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Carswell, Miss M. Niven. Wytham. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Chilswell Hill, Dillenius. Bagley, 



Baxter. South Hinksey. Cothill. Frilford. Tubney. 



3. Pang. Fence Wood, W. M. Rogers. Hermitage. 



4. Kennet. Greenham, Rupert Jones. Mortimer, Tufnail. Burgh- 



field. Beenham. Silchester. Aldermaston. Snelsmore. Pad- 

 worth, Hampstead Marshall. Crookham Heath. Sandleford. 

 Newbury Wash. 



5. Loddon. Wet places, Marlow, Mill. Maiden Early, Tufnail. 



Near Park Place, Stanton. Included in the Well. Coll. list for 

 1894. Bagshot. Sandhurst. Blackwater. Long Moor. Cole- 

 man's Moor. Ambarrow. 

 G. uliginosum is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



G. Aparine, Linn. Sp. PI. 108 (1753). Goose-grass, Cleavers. 



Aparine vulgaris, C. B, Pin. 334. 

 Top. Bot. 214. Syme, E. B. iv. 225, t, 658. Nyman, 330. Fl. Oxf. 150, 

 Native. Septal, &c. Hedgerows, waste places, cultivated ground, 

 thickets, &c. Veiy common and generally distributed, Except on 

 the uncultivated chalk downs and the heaths of the south-west. 

 A. May-August. 

 First record. G. aparine, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



It varies in size to a considerable degree ; the contrast of specimens 

 from a dry field near Hungerford, where the plant was only a few 

 inches high, with the great rampant plant from fields near South 

 Stoke five or six feet long, is very striking. It occurs plentifully in 

 garden ground in Reading and on pollard willows near Abingdon. 

 G. Aparine occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. tricorne, Stokes in With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, i. 153 (1787). 77?ree- 

 horned Goose-grass, 



Top. Bot. 214. Syme, E. B. iv. 226, t. 659. Nyman, 329. Fl. Oxf. 150. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields, chiefly on calcareous soil. Eather 



local. A. June-August. 

 First record. Aparine foliis brevioribus et semine laeviore. Inter segetes et 



fabas variis locis agri Oxoniensis reperitur (Bobart), Morison, Hist 



Ox. iii. 332, 1699. Moulsford, Rev. W. W. Newbould in Britt, 



Contr. 1 87 1. 



