396 LAMIACEAE 



Native. Glareal. Dry sunny banks, chalky and limestone pastures. 



Abundant over the greater part of the chalk soils, rare on the 



limestone, but absent from considerable areas of the county. P. 



July- Septem ber. 

 First record. Sonning, Mr. S. Radge in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Published 



by Dr. Noehden in Maror's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



2. Ock. In the meado%v called Bride House at Blewbury, Lousley, in 



Russe'l's Cat. Marcham, Walker. Uffington. Radley. King 

 Standing Hill. Wantage. Lockinge. 



3. Pang, ^'^ery common on dry banks at Hampstead Norris, 



Lousley, I. c. Near E. Ilsley, W. M. Rogers. Streatley, Pamplin. 

 King Standing Hill. Ashampstead. Sulham. Basildon. 

 Moulsford. Pangbourn. Tilehurst. Yattendon. 



4. Kennet. Near Hampstead Norris, and/. a?&a. Ufton. Mortimer, 



Tufnail. Lambourn. West Ilsley. Wickham. 



5. lioddon. Sonning, Rudge. Wargrave, Melvill. Common about 



Park Place, Stanton. By the railway near Wellington College. 

 Hurley. Very abundant and fine in Wargrave Chalk Pit. On 

 chalk rubble near Reading. Maidenhead. Bisham. 

 A handsome form with larger purple bracts and with purplish 

 leaves which occurred at Hurley, approaches var. prismaticum, Gaud. 

 ri. Helv. iv. 78, and is nearer that plant than the specimens from 

 Carisbrooke Castle, which were distributed through the Bot. Exch. 

 Club in 1888, as 0. 7negastachyum, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 114. 

 The flowers are much visited by bees and butterflies. 

 Origanum is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



THYMUS, Linn. Gen. n. 646 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 93). 

 T. Serpyllum, Linn. Sp. PI. 590 (1753). Wild Thyme. 



Serpillum vulgare, Gerard. 455. 

 Top. Bot. 307. Syme, E. B. vii. 26, t. 1043. Nyman, 593. Fl. Oxf. 238. 

 Native. Pascual. Pastures, heaths, commons, roadsides, chalk 



downs, &c. Locally abundant. P. June-September. 

 First record. T. Serphyllum [Serpyllum'], Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 



This species is too frequent to need localities being given. It ascends 

 to the top of Gibbet Hill, 955 feet in elevation. 



It varies greatly in the hairiness of the leaves and in the size of 

 the flowers, which are occasionally white in colour. 



Thijmus Serpyllum is found in all the bordering counties. 



T. Chamaedrys, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. i, 35 (1814-23). Wild Thtjme. 

 Comp. Cyb.Br.545. Syme, E.B. vii. 27, 1. 1044. Nyman, 593. Fl. Oxf. 237. 

 Native. Pascual. Heaths, bushy places, pastures, &c. Locally 

 common. P. July-September. 



