364 KHINANTHACEAE 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Hampstead Norris, in one spot, W. M. 



Rogers. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Frilsham. Moulsford. Pang- 

 bourn. Tilehurst. 



4. Kennet. Woodhay, Weaver. Mortimer, TuJ'nail. Shefford. Pad- 



worth.. Brimpton. 



5. Loddon. Common about Marlow, Mill. In Park Place, common 



and not eaten by rabbits, Stanton. Below the Eidges, Penny. 



Near Henley, Baxter. Sonning, Rudge. Near Coleman's Moor. 



Cockpoll Green. Twyford. Early. Cookham. Bishum. War- 



gi-ave. Shiplake. 

 I have not yet been able to find this plant hybridizing with 

 V. Thapsus in Berkshire. 



V. nigrum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



*V. Lyclmitis, Linn. Sp. PI. 177 (1753). Hoary Mullein. 

 Top. Bot. 287. Syme, E, B. vi. 113, t. 939. Nyman, 530. Fl. Oxf. 210. 

 Denizen or casual. Viatical. Waysides, walls. Very rare. B. July- Aug. 

 First record. Sonning Lane, Mr. S. Rudge, 1800, in Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 Included by Mr. T. B. Flower in Robertsons End. of Reading, 1843. 



2. Ock. Naturalized on a wall in Sunningwell. 



5. Loddon. Sonning Lane, Rudge (not there now). Roadside near 

 Wargrave Hill, [Melvill] in Britt. Contr. 



Our plant has white flowers, and is the V. album of Miller, Gard. 

 Dieted. 8 (1768). 



V. Lychnitis is recorded for Bucks and Surrey only of the bordering 

 counties. 



**V. Blattaria, Linn. Sp. PI. 178 (1753). Moth Mullein. 



Blaitaria Jlore luteo, Park. 64. 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 253. Sj^me, E. B. vi. 116, t. 942. Nyman, 528. Fl. Oxf. 210. 



Denizen or casual. Waysides, waste places. Very rare. B. May-Sept. 



First record. Verbascum octavum, Caes. Blattaria Phoenicia, Tab. Flore 

 purpurea, Ger. Purple Moth Mullein near Oxford, Mr. Thomas in 

 [How's] Phyt. Brit. 128, 1650. Also Binfield, Mr. Eudge in Bot. Guide, 

 1805, and lierh. Brit. Mus. 



2. Ock. Near Betterton House, in a field, Mrs. Haydon, 1896. Bagley 



Wood , a relic of a former garden. Grandpont. 



3. Pang. Chieveley, Hewetfs Hist. 



5, Loddon. One plant at New Lock, perhaps escaped from a gai'den. Mill. 

 In a piece of newly-turned grovind at Park Place Boat House, and in 

 a clover field, Church Farm, Bemenham, Stanton. Binfield, Rudge, 

 1800. Twyford, railway-side, the pale purple-flowered form, var. 

 glabrum, Beichb. Fl. Germ. Exc. 380. 



V. Blattaria is recorded for Svirrey, Hants, and Wiltshire. 



J^V. viRGATUM, Stokes in With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, i. 227 (1787). 

 Syme, E. B. vi. 115, t. 941. Fl. Oxf. 210. Has been found as a casual plant 

 in Oxfordshire and Hampshire.] 

 [Ambiguity. ^Blattaria Jlore alba favescente nondum descrijiti. Mullein 

 with white and yellow flowers. In Chaucer's Copps near Reading,' E. Ash- 

 mole and J. Watlington, MS. in Ashmole's copy of [How's] Phyt. Brit, circa 1656.] 



