352 BORAGINACEAE 



but replaced in the heathy district of the south-west, at least in 

 the upland bogs, by the preceding plant. P. April-August. 

 First record. Sonning, Mr. S. Budge in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Included 

 in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



'In no place do we remember to have met with the Forget-me-not in 

 such beauty and luxuriance, as in some of the fresh grassy nooks that 

 we every now and then come \ipon, in the course of our voyage down 

 the Thames,' Hall's Book of the Thames, 269. 



In 1892 the flowers were conspicuously large and plentiful during 

 the drought. The plant is a great ornament to our river-sides, and is 

 a beautiful feature of the Kennet valley, making a charming contrast 

 with Lychnis Flos-cucidi and Iris Pseud- acorus. 



Var. STRiGULOSA (Reichb. Fl. Germ. Exc. 342, as a species). Early, 

 Tufnail. Coleman's Moor, and probably elsewhere. 



Var. HiRSUTA, A. Braun, occurs at Abingdon, Marcham, Hurst 

 Green, South Hinksey, Cumnor. 



The foliage and the lower part of the stem is distinctly pubescent 

 with patent hairs. I suspect this to be the M. repens recorded by 

 Mr. Baxter from South Hinksey, as occasionally it has procumbent 

 branch-like stolons, which are leafy in August. 



Myosotis palustris occurs in all the bordering counties. 



M, repens, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 344 (1838) ; see Hook. Fl. Scot. 67 

 (1821). 



Top. Bot. 323. Syme, E. B. vii. loi, t. 1105. Nyman, 519. Fl. Oxf. 204. 



Native. Paludal. Wet heathy places, and margins of ponds. Bare. 

 P. July-September. 



First record. [Beyond South Hinksey in a ditch near the road going 

 up the hill. A little way beyond South Hinksey, south-west of the 

 Church, Baxter MSS. 1831. I think these records refer to a form 

 of M. palustris.'] First certainly recorded by Mr. H. C. Watson in 

 Britt. Contr. 187 1. 



4. Kennet. Burghfield. Greenham. Near Beenham. 



5. Loddon. Bagshot, Watson. Near Cumberland Lodge, Bolton Ki)ig. 



Sandhurst. Easthampstead Plain. 

 M. repens is recorded for all the bordering counties except Oxfordshire 

 and East Gloucestershire. 



M. sylvatica, Hoflfm. Deutsch. Fl. ed. i, 61 (1791). Wood Forget-me-not. 



Top. Bot. 324. Syme, E. B. vii. 103, t. 1107. Nyman, 520, Fl. Oxf. 205. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Hanging wood on the Chalk escarpment. Very 



local. P. June -July. 

 First found in Berkshix'e by the author in 1890, and recorded in Bep. 



Bot. Exch. Club, 307, 1896. 

 4. Kennet. In great plenty in Riever Wood, which is a picturesque 



