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Courtney. Wantage, Didcot. Hagbovne. Blewbury. Aston 

 Tirrel. Uflfington, frequent. 



3. Pang. Hampstead Norris, TV. M. Rogers. Pangbourn. Moulsford. 



Tidmarsh. Bradfield. Standford Dingley. Purley. 



4. Kennet. Ham Mills, Weaver. Weston, Osmond. Winterbourne, 



W. M. Rogers. Burghfield meadows, Tufnail. Southcote, Kint- 

 bury. Wash Common. Beenham. Theale. Padworth. 



5. Loddon. Thatcher's Ford. Jouldern's Ford. Sandhurst. Swallow- 



field. Arborfield. Bisham. Wargrave. Coleman's Moor. 

 Ruscombe. Waltham. Sonning. Cookham. Bray. Clewer. 

 Frogmore. 

 Var. ANAGALLiFORMis (Boreau, Fl. du Centre Fr. ed. 3, ii. 489, as a 

 species). In Berkshire I have seen no plants with such glandiilar 

 inflorescence as is to be found in this variety in Ross-shire. Our 

 specimens usually have a few glands in the tipper portion of the 

 inflorescence only, and the plant is more branching and luxuriant. 

 V. Anagcdlis-aquatica is found in all the bordering counties. 



V. Beccabunga, Linn. Sp. PI. 12 (1753). Brooklime. 



Anagallis seu Beccabunga, Gerard, 496. Beccabunga, Rivinus. 

 Top. Bot. 289. Syme, E. B. vi. 169, t. 990. Nyman, 546. Fl. Oxf. 218. 

 Native. Paludal, Ditches, ponds, shallow streams, and wet places. 



Frequent and generally distributed. P. May-August. 

 First record. V. beccabunga^ Dr. Noehden, in Maror's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



The Brooklime is too frequent to need particular localities being 

 given. A very small form of it occurred on the muddy margin of one 

 of the dew ponds on the chalk downs, near Unwell Wood. Beautiful 

 patches of it with very dark blue flowers occurred in a dry wood near 

 Coleshill. A form with pink flowers is sometimes found ; it is 

 V. LiMOSA, Lej. Rev. Flore, Spa, 2, When the bracts are much longer 

 than the peduncle it is the var, bracfeata, Brebisson, Fl. Normandie, 227, 



V. Beccabunga is found in all the bordering counties. 



EUPHRASIA, Linn. Gen. n. 659 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 78). 



E. officinalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 604 (1753). Eye Bright. 



E. officinarum, C. B. Pin. 233. Euphrasia, Gerard, 537, 

 Top, Bot. 292. Syme, E. B, vi. 171, tt, 991-2. Nyman, 551. Fl. Oxf. 220, 

 Native. Ericetal and pascual. Heaths, pastures, roadsides, chalk 



downs, &c. Locally abundant, A. May-September. 

 First record. E. officinaHs, Br. Maror, in Agr. Berks, 1809. 



With Uredo Rhinanthacearum iColeospori^im euphrasiae] on it about 

 Oxford, Baxter, Phaen. Bot. 72, 1834. 



Euphrasia is a very variable species which has been divided into 



