MELAMPYRUM 385 



[M. ARVENSE, Linn, Sp. PI. 605 (1753). Purple Cow-wheat 



Syme, E. B. vi. 184, t. itx)i. 



Recorded by Dr. Noehden, Cornfields frequent, in Mavor's Agr. Berks, but 

 undoubtedly an error. Probably Bartsia Odontites was intended.] 



[M. sTLVATicuM, Linn. Sp. PI. 605 (1753). Yellow Cow-wheat 



Syme, E. B. vi. 186, t. 1005. 



Recorded by Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, from woods and shady 

 places. An undoubted error. Doubtless a small form of 31. prat^nse was 

 mistaken for the true 31. sylvaticum, which is not a native of the midlands.] 



M. pratense, Linn. Sp. Pi. 605 (1753). Cow-wheat. 



Crataeogonon, Lobel. Ic. 36. ? Jif. sylvaticum, Huds. Fl. Angl. 270, not of 

 Linn. 



Top. Bot. 293. Syme, E. B. vi. 184, t. 1002. Nyman, 556. FL Oxf. 221. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, bushy places, and sometimes in open 

 heathy ground exposed to the sun. Local. Absent from con- 

 siderable areas. A. May-August. 



First record. M. pratense, Meadow Cow-wheat, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's 

 Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 This may be the Euphrosine Jlore albo. Eyebright, with white flowers 



near Oxford, Mr. Martin, in [JJoio's] Phyt. Brit 40, 1650. 



1. Isis. Wytham. 



2. Ock. Birch Copse, Thurland. Bagley, Baxter, 1812. Marcham, 



Walker. Tubney. 



3. Pang. Sandy Lane, Hermitage, W. M. Rogers. De La Bere, 



Pangbourn, Tvfnail. Tilehurst. Bradfield. Near Bottom Farm. 

 Ashampstead. Grimsbury Castle. Hawkridge. Oare. Cold 

 Ash. Ashridge. Oarebury. Fence Wood. Frilsham. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, Russell's Cat. In plenty in Beedon Wood and 



in a wood near Snelsmore Common, W. M. Rogers. Mortimer, 

 Tvfnail. Sandleford, Weaver. Weston, Osmond. Greenham. Gib- 

 bet Hill. Hampstead Marshall. Inkpen. Templeton. Woodhay. 



5. Iioddon. It is curious that in so wooded a country ... so 



common a plant as M. pratense does not appear to grow, 3£ill. 

 Maidenhead, Boswell. Wargrave, Britten. Wood near Ford, 

 Penny. Kemenham, Warren Kow, Crazey Hill, Stanton. Arbor- 

 field, Tuyler. Bagshot. Sandhurst. Blackwater. Finchamp- 

 stead. Farley Hill. Spencer's Wood Common. Bracknell. 

 Binfield. Bowsey Hill. 

 Var. LATiFOLiuM, Schueb. & Mart. Fl. Wuert. 401, which appears to 

 gradually merge into the ordinary plant, is not unfrequent in shady 

 woods in the Pang district. I have it from Tidmarsh, Tilehurst, 

 College Wood, Bucklebury, and from Hampstead Marshall, near Tem- 

 pleton, and Hodcott in the Kennet district. 



Melampyrum pratense is found in all the bordering counties. 



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