334 PRIMULACEAE 



First recorded in Russell's Cat. of 1839. 



One of our best-known plants and a great adornment of the drier 

 pastui-es and chalk downs, forming a charming contrast to Orchis 

 morio, which often accompanies it ; it is too frequent to need a list of 

 localities Leing given. 



' Her foot the Cumner cowslips never stirred ; 



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But many a dingle on the loved hill-side, . . . 

 Where thick the cowslips grew.' Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis. 

 P. veris occurs plentifully in all the bordering counties. 



[**Cyclamen hederaefolium, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. i, i. 196 (1789). Syme, E. B. 



vii. 140, t. 1 136. Nyman, 601. 

 Alien. In Radley Park, but only as planted specimens. 

 It occurs in a naturalized condition in Hampsliire.] 



LYSIMACHIA, Linn. Gen. n. 188 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 59). 



Ii. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 146 (1753). Yellow Loosestrife. 



Top. Bot. 336. Syme, E. B. vii. 144, t. 1141. Nyman, 599. Fl. Oxf. 242. 



Native. Paludal. River-banks, marshy ditches, &c. Local, but not 

 an uncommon plant. P. June-September. 



First record. L. lutea [Ger. Em. 474]. It was found by Mr. Watling- 

 ton by River Kennet within three miles of Redding, E. Ashmole's 

 MS. about 1651. Yelloic Lysimachion grows plentifully in our Oxford 

 ditches, MS. in Lijie's Herball, 1660. L. vulgaris, Dr. Noehden, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Wytham, Boswell. Near Buscot. Radcot. Near Duxford. 



Newbridge. Appleton. Near Eynsham. Merley Wood. 



2. Ock. Abingdon, Whitwell. On the banks of the Thames aboiit 



Wallingford. Blewbury, in one spot, Lousley in Russell's Cat. 

 Marcham, Walker. On the Ock near the Noah's Ark. Ferry 

 Hinksey. Kennington. Near Radley. Sutton Courtney. 

 Appleford, Near Wittenham, &c. 



3. Pang. Caversham meadows, Tufnail. Moulsford. Streatley. 



Pangbourn. Tilehurst. Reading. 



4. Kennet. By the Kennet three miles from Reading, J. Watlington. 



Burghfield meadows, Tufnail. By the Em borne Stream near 

 Aldern Bridge. Aldermaston Decoy. Theale. Southcote. 



5. Loddon. Sunninghill, Sir Joseph Banks, 1773, in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



Banks of the Thames near Windsor, Winch, MS. 1802. Shiplake, 

 Tufnail. By the river near Marlow abundantly. Mill. Abundant 

 in a piece of pasture land between Warren Row and Knowl 

 Hill, Stanton. Wargrave, Melvill. Arbortield, Tayler. Near 

 Wellington College by the Blackwater. Ambarrow. East- 

 hampstead. Jouldern's Ford. Long Moor, very fine specimens. 



