LYSIMACHIA 335 



Coleman's Moor. Twyford. Hurley. Whistley Green. Rus- 

 combe. Aston Ferry. Cookham. Bray. Old Windsor. Frog- . 

 more. Virginia Water, &c. 

 L. vulgaris occurs in all the bordering counties. 



J». Nunuuularia, Linn. Sp. PI. 148 (1753). Mofiey-tcort, Creepiiig Jenny. 

 Nummularia, Gerard, 505. 



Top. Bot. 337. Syme, E. B. vii. 148, t, 1144. Nyman, 599. Fl. Oxf. 243. 



Native. Paludal. Wet meadows, stream-sides, damp woods, &c. 

 Common in low situations throughout the county. In the up- 

 lands rare or absent. P. June-August. 



First record. Moneywort everywheare about Oxford in great abundance, 



MS. in Lyte's Herhall, 1660. Sunninghill, Sir J. Banks, in Herb. Brit. 



Mils. 1774. L. nummularia, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Baxter records it from Bagley, Mr. Baxter's MSS. 1823. 



L. Nummularia is too frequent in all our valleys to need special 



localities being given, and is found in all the bordering counties. 



In the Students Flora Sir J. D. Hooker casts a doubt on its being a native 

 plant of Britain because the seeds are not ripened. It appears to me that 

 this is a case (similar to Cardamine pratensis and Ranunculus Ficaria, neither 

 of which often ripen seed) in which the plant finds there is little need of 

 producing seed, since it can multiply very rapidly nearly all the year round 

 by means of its creeping stems, as the Cardamine can do by its leaves and 

 the Ranunculus by its tubers. I have no doubt of L. Nummularia being 

 a native of the three counties of the Upper Thames province. 



]L. nemorum, Linn. Sp. PI. 148 (1753). Wood Pimpernel, Wood Money- 

 wort, YeUow Pimpernel. 



Anagallis lutea nemorum, C. B. Pin. 252. 

 Top. Bot. 338. Syme, E. B. vii. 149, t. 1145. Nyman, 599. Fl. Oxf. 243. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods and thickets. Local and not very common. 



P. April-October. 

 First record. Anagallis lutea nemorum. In Tylehurst near Redding 



between the Church and Sir Peter Van Lore's house, B. AsJmiole's 



MS. 165 1. Still there in 1896. 



1. Isis. Wytham Wood, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 310. Marcham, Walker. 



Tubney. 



2. Ock. Bagley Wood, L. nemorum, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



3. Pang. Tilehurst, Ashmole. Tidmarsh. Sulham, Tufnail. Streatley, 



Pamplin. Cold Ash and Fence Wood. Oare Wood. Unwell 

 Wood. Ashampstead. Ashridge Wood. Bucklebury. Fril- 

 sham. Yattendon. 



4. Kennet. Near Newbury, EusselVs Cat. Greenham Common, Rupert 



Jones. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. Mortimer, Tufnail. Brimpton 

 Wood. Aldermaston. Hampstead Marshall. Crookham Heath. 

 Tilcomb Green. Wood near Curridge. Burghfield. Silchester. 

 Ufton. Templeton. 



