354 BORAGINACEAE 



4. Kennet. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. Mortimei', Tufnail. Beenham. 



Burghfield. Bucklebury. Theale. West Ilsley. 



5. Loddon. Lucas' Hospital, Wokingham, Forster. Field behind 



Sandhurst Lodge, Penny. Sunninghill, Watson. Finchanipstead. 



Long Moor. Bi'acknell. Bearwood. Sonning. Twyfox'd. 



Windsor. Cookham. Winter Hill. Wargrave. Ascot, &c. 



Var. MiTTENii, Baker, Journ. Bot. (1870) 244, has been seen at Beenham. 



Specimens of M. collina, with nearly white flowers, occurred at 



Tubney (/. pallida). 



The tui-f on the upper part of Hen Wood is often a very beautiful 

 sight in early spring from the abundance of this plant, which is there 

 very much dwarfed, so that the dark blue flowers appear like little 

 circles of lapis lazuli among the short grass. 



M. collina is found in all the bordering counties. 



M. versicolor, Sm. E. B. sub t. 2558 (i8i3\ Small Scorpion Grass. 

 M. arvensis, var. versicolor, Pers. S.yn. i. 156. M. arvensis, Hill, Veg. 



Syst. vii. 55 (1772^ The E. B. plate is M. collina. 

 Top. Bot. 325. Syme, E. B. vii. 107, t. mo. Nyman, 520. Fl. Oxf. 205. 

 Native. Glareal and ericetal. Heaths, dry sandy pastures, diy 



banks, walls, &c. Locally common. A. or B. March 30-July. 

 First record. Echium Scorpioicles minus flosculis luteis, Bauh. Pin. 254, 



grows within three miles of Redding plentifully, MS. in \_Hoic's] 



Phijt. Brit, before 1659. Published in Walker's Flora, 1833. 



1. Isis. Besilsleigh, Newton Young in Walk. Fl. Wytham. Long- 



worth. Pusey. 



2. Ock. Cumnor Hurst, Newton Young, 1. c. Near Childswell Farm, 



Baxter, I. c Bayworth, Thurland. Marcham, Walker. Dench- 

 worth, Wait. Tubney. Frilford. Abingdon. Boar's Hill. 

 Hen Wood. Radley. Hinksey. Didcot, 



3. Pang. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Bucklebury, Ashampstead. Tid- 



inarsli. Lowbury. Ilsley. Hermitage. 



4. Kennet, Newbury, -??ttsse?rs Ca^. 1839, Wickham, if rs. Sanson. Alder- 



niaston. Burghfield. Haiiipstead Marshall. Snelsmore. Gibbet 

 Hill. Riever Hill Wood. Sulhampstead. Padworth. Beenham. 

 Theale. Wasing. Silchester. Mortimer, i^shbury. Templeton. 



5. Loddon. Warren Row, Stanton. Near Reading, Browne's MS. 



Finchampstead, Penny. Hurst Grove, Melvill. Farley Hill. 

 Risely. Shurlock Row. Sandhurst. Long Moor. Easthamp- 

 stead. Swinley. Bracknell. Wokingham. Bearwood. Early. 

 Bulmarsh. Culham. Sonning Cutting. Stubbing's Heath. 

 Cookham. Bagshot Heath. Sunninghill. Near Virginia 

 Water. Windsor Park, &c. 

 Var. Balbisiana (Jord. Pugill. 128, as a species). M. lutea, Balbis, 

 not of Perjoon. 



