358 CONVOLVULACEAE 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 538. Synie, E. B. vi. 89, t, 926. Nyman, 507. Fl. Oxf. 198. 

 Casual. Parasitic on Flax, &c. Very rare. June. 



2. Ock. A plant or two occurred on Flax and other casuals on waste 

 ground near Didcot Station in 1895. 



It has been recorded for Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. 



C. europaea, Linn. Sp. PI. 124 (1753). Great Dodder, Hell-weed. 



C. major, C. B. Pin. 219, and of DC. Prod. ix. 452. 

 Top. Bot. 282. Syme, E. B. vi. 90, t. 927. Nyman, 507. Fl. Oxf. 199. 

 Native. Septal. Hedges and bushes, and in damp thickets near 



streams, and on herbage along the banks of rivers. Local and 



rather rare, except in the extreme south-eastern part of thf 



county. A. July- September. 

 First record. C. europaea, near Eton, Mr. Gotobed in Bot Guide, 1805, 



with some slight doubt as to the locality being in Berkshire. 



2. Ock. Near Abingdon, Bicheno in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. Sm. 



Eng. Fl. ii. 25. Between South Hinksey and Childswell Farm. 

 Baxter. Road to Hinksey, Walk. Fl. 1833. In a hedge by the 

 footpath leading from Oxford to South Hinksey, on the black- 

 thorn, Mrs. E. Jenner, 1833, in Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 18, 1834. 

 Between Botley and Ferry Hinksey, Bosivell. Appears to be 

 now extinct about Oxford. 



3. Pang. By the river near Goring. 



4. Kennet. Near Newbury, Bicheno in Baxt. I.e. Wickham, Mrs. 



Batson. 



5. Loddon. Near Eton, Gotobed, I. c. [Probably this was on the 



Buckinghamshire side of the river, where it is still plentiful.] 

 On the western side of Bulmarsh Heath, Budge in Bot. Guide. 

 [Probably C. Epithijmum.'] Hedges about Clewer, Gotobed in 

 Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. Near Caesar's Camp, Delamofte in Baxt. 

 I. c. Maidenhead, on lucerne, Lond. Fl. Near Taplewon, the 

 footway to Maidenhead, Winch, add. in New Bot. Guide. Foot of 

 Winter Hill, Britt. Contr. Near Shiplake, on both sides of the 

 river, Tufnail. Near Park Place boat-house on nettles and 

 sedges, and almost smothering the hedge by the roadside nearly 

 opposite the cottage at Hemerton chalk-pit on the Wargrave 

 road, Stanton. Windsor, Everett. Old Windsor. 

 Var. NEFRENS, Fries, Exs. Herb. Norm. n. i^^C. Schkuhriana, L. Pfeiff. 



in Bot. Zeit. iii. (1845) 673, occurred as a casual on Medicago satira, and 



other casuals at Didcot in 1895. 



Cuscuta europaea has been recorded for all the bordering counties. 



C. Epithymum, Murray, Syst. Veg. ed. 13, 140. Lesser Dodder. 

 C. minor, C. B. Pin. and S. F. Gray & DC. Prod. ix. 453, not Gilibert. 

 C. europaea, Sm. E. B. t. 55, not of Linn. Epithxjmmn, Matth. 

 Top. Bot. 283. Syme, E. B. vi. 91, t, 928. Nyman, 507. Fl. Oxf. 199. 



