BORAGO 349 



a distinguishing character 'calyce patente tubo corollae breviori'; 

 it was found, he says, on the banks of the Thames near Caversham, 

 and Mr. J. Woods noticed it above Windsor in 1810. I fail to see in 

 the specimen in the Oxford Herbarium, so named by Sibthorp, any 

 marked difference in the calyx ; the plant is only a rather luxuriant 

 purple-flowered form of S. officinale. 



S. officinale is found in all the bordering counties. 



[S. TUBEROSUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 136 (1753). 

 Top. Bot. 327. Syme, E. B. vii. 116, t. 1017. Nyman, 509. 

 Is reported from Surrey, but probably is not native.] 



** ? S. ASPERRiMUM, Donn, in Bot. Mag. t. 929 (1806). S. peregrinum, Ledeb. 



Ind. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. (1820) 4. Cultivated or Prickly Comfrey. 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 548. Syme, E. B. vii. 121. Fl. Oxf. 2ui. 



Alien. Waste places, a relic of cultivation in arable ground. Rare. P. 

 June- August. 



1. Isis. Cumuor. 2. Ock. Shippon. Near Abingdon. 3. Pang. 



Near Reading. 5. Loddon. Near Maidenhead. Ambarrow. 



This has been somewhat extensively cultivated for fodder, and is probably 

 a cultivated race of S. asperrimum, or possibly a hybrid of that species with 

 S. officinale. The plants are obviously not native. 



BORAGO, Linn. Gen. n. 172 (Toumefort, Inst. t. 53). 



*B. OFFICINALIS, Linn. Sp. PI. 137 (1753). Borage. 



Borage hortensis, Gerard, 653. 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 548. Syme, E. B. vii. 112, t. 11 14. Nyman, 509. Fl. Oxf. 200. 



Alien. Viatical. Waste ground near and about villages. Scarcely natura- 

 lized. A. or B. May-September. 



First record. B. officinalis, Dr. Noehden, but without locality, in Mavor^s 

 Ayr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Long worth. Wytham. 



2. Ock. In the street near the ' Load of Mischief,' in the road on the 



south side of Blewbury, and in a few other places, J. Lousley in 

 RusselVs Cat. Grandpont. Waste ground near Abingdon, and on 

 rubbish on Abingdon Racecourse. In Kennington Lane. 



3. Pang. Near Ashampstead. Railway-side near Reading. 



4. Kennet. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. Greenham. Near Southcote. 



5. Loddon. Arborfield, Tayler. Aston Ferry. Twyford. Railway-side 



near Maidenhead. 



The Borage is only a rare casual plant in Berkshire, and soon disappears 

 from its stations. 



Borago is found more or less naturalized in all the bordering counties. 



ANCHUSA, Linn. Gen. n. 167 {Buglossum, Tournefort, Inst. t. 63). 



**A. OFFICINALIS, Linn. Sp. PI. 133 (1753). Alkanet. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 280. Syme, E. B. vii. no, t. 1112. Nyman, 510. 



Casual. Gravelly heaths. Very rare. P. August-September. 



First found in the covinty by the author, in a gravelly and heathy piece of 

 ground near Finchampstead in the Loddon district, in 1891. No other 

 introduced plant was near, but a pheasant cover was not far distant. 

 Possibly the seeds were brought with pheasant-food, but I could see no 



