398 LAMIACEAE 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Westbrook, W. M. Rogers. De la Bere. 



Pangbourn, Tufiiail. Moulsford. Curridge Common. Hermitage. 

 East Ilsley. Compton. Sulham. Bucklebury. King Standing 

 Hill. Eather common in this district. 



4. Kennet. Between Beedon and E. Ilsley, W. M. Rogers. Wickham, 



Mrs. Batson. Theale. Lambourn. Abundant in fields near 

 the Ridgeway and near Letcombe Castle. Near Catmore and 

 West Ilsley. Newbury. 



5. Loddon. Near Wickham, Gotohed in Bot. Guide (doubtful if 



Wickham Bushes, Wickham near Newbury, or Wycombe, 

 Bucks). Cornfields frequent (near Marlow), Mill. Starve-all 

 Farm, Penny. Remenham. Aston Lane. Round Hemerton, 

 Stanton. Wargrave, Melvill. Near Maidenhead. Bisham. Bray. 

 Sonning Hill. Arborfield, &c. A white-flowered form was 

 seen in fields near High Standing Hill. 

 C. arvensis is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



C. parviflora, Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 396 (1778). Lesser Calamini. 



C Kepeta, Savi, Fl. Pis. 197 (1798 . Melissa Kepeia, Linn. Sp. PL 593 

 (1753), but not of Herb Thymus Nepeta, Sm. FL Brit. ii. 642, et 

 E. B. t. 1414. Clinopodium Nepeta, Kuntze, 1. c. 



Top. Bot. 309. Syme, E. B. vii. 33, t. 1049. Njonan, 588. Fl. Oxf. 236. 



Native. Glai*eal. Dry hedge-banks and grassy slopes on calcareous or 

 gravelly soil. Very local and rather rare. P. August-October. 



First record. Thymus Nej^efa in Mr. Baxter s MSS. 1812. See Walk. Fl. 

 Oxf. 1833, and Baxt. By the side of the Abingdon Road, before the 

 top of the hill is reached, and near Abingdon in a rough grassy 

 field, and by a road between Abingdon and Radley. Specimens of 

 C. parviflora were sent by me fi'om Bagley to the Bot. Rec. Club in 

 1886. 

 2. Ock. Bank on the side of the Abingdon Road going through 



Bagley Wood. 

 ' Thymus Nepeta ' is given unlocalized by Mr. T. B. Flower in Roheiison's 



Env. of Reading, 1843, but this record cannot be admitted until verified. 



In the Botanists' Guide it is recorded from ' roadside near Wickham by 



Mr. Gotobed,' 1805, Avhich again requires verification. There is a doubt 



as to the locality it?elf. It may refer to Wickham Bushes in the 



Loddon district, or to Wickham in the Kennet district, or possibly to 



Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. 



Mr. J. Lousley records in Russell's Catalogue, 1839, C. Nepeta on the 



chalky poor soil at Hampstead Norris and Blewbury. Probably 



C. arvensis was intended. 



The species is often confused with C. monf.ana, from which it may be known 

 by its bluish unspotted, not purple flowers ; by the shorter hairs on calyx 

 teeth ; by the hairs in calyx throat being enclosed, not protruding ; by the 



