372 RHINANTHACEAE 



or absent from tlie north of the county, where it is only of casual 

 occurrence, but rather frequent south of the Pang stream. A. 

 June-October. 

 First record. Sonning, Mr. S.Rudge in Herh. Brit. Mus. t8oo. Published 

 in EtisselVs Cat. 1839. 



2. Ock. Near Cothill. Casual only in this district. 



3. Pang. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Pangbourn, Rev. Aubrey Moore. 



Tilehurst. Near Sulham. Bucklebury. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, BusseU's Cat. 1839. West Woodhay. Elcot, 



Reeks. Crookham, Stubbs in Britt. Contr. Mortimer, Tiifnail. 

 Weston, Osmond. Greenham. Padworth. Burghfield. Between 

 Southcote and Burghfield. Silchester. Abundant about Theale, 

 and in fields between Theale and Reading. Wash Common, 

 Newbury. 



5. Loddon. Sonning, Rudge. In the common field opposite 



Bisham Wood, Mill. Wargrave, Britt. ■ Swallowfield, Tufnail. 

 Finchampstead, Penny. Remenham, not uncommon, Stanton. 

 Wokingham, Crawley. One plant near the Albert Bridge, 

 Windsor, Bolton King. Sandhurst. Jouldern's Ford. Loddon 

 Bridge. Bisham. Hurley. Whistley Green. Arborfield. 

 Waltham. 

 A. Orontium, which is very rare in Oxfordshire, is recorded for all the 

 bordering counties. 



SCROPHUIjARIA, Linn. Gen. n. 674 ^Tournefort, Inst. t. 74% 

 S. aquatica, Linn. Sp. PL 620 (1753). p. p. Water Betony. 



Betonica aquatica, Gerard, 579. Scrophtdaria Balbisii, Syme, not of 

 Hornem. S. oblongifolia, Nyinan, 532, ?if of Lois. 

 Top. Bot. 294. Syme, E. B. vi. 120, t. 947. Nyman, 532. Fl. Oxf. 210. 

 Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers and brooks, wet places, damp 

 woods, &c. Common and scattered through the county, but rare 

 or absent from some of the parishes on the upland chalk in the 

 north-west. P. June- September. 

 First record. S. aquatica, Figwort, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 

 1809. 

 Although the more natural homo of the Water Betony is by the 

 banks of streams, I have seen it growing freely in chalk ballast by the 

 railway. It occurs in a wood at Kingston Bagpuze with a yellowish 

 green foliage. 



Var. pubescens, Brebisson, Fl. de la Normandie, ed. 4, 218 (1869}, has 

 been seen near Hurst, Windsor, &c. 



S. aquatica, which is fertilized by wasps, is found in all the bordering 

 (jounties. 



