400 LAMIACEAE 



fond of sunny places, and locally common, but absent from 

 extensive areas of the county. P. May-October. 

 First record. S. verhoiaca, Mr. Bicheno and Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's 

 Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Near Carswell, Miss M. Niven. 



2. Oct. Marcham, Walker, Near Abingdon, TkurJand, 1861. Dench- 



worth, Wait. Plentiful by the railway between Oxford and 

 Radley. Cothill. Radley. Frilford. By the railway between 

 Culham and Didcot. Near King Standing Hill. Blewbury 

 (see under S. pratensis). Dry Sandford. 



3. Pang. Near Moulsford. 



4. Kennet. Included in Russe'l's Kewbury Catalogue^ but without 



locality. 



0. Loddon. Near Park Place. Roadside to Hurley, Stanton. Near 



Loddon Bridge. 



5. Verbenaca is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



*S. pRATENsrs, Linn. Sp. PL 25, var. a (1753). Meadow Clary. 



Top. Bot. .^02. Syme, E. B. vii. 44, t. 1058. Nyman, 569. PI. Oxf. 2^6. 

 Native ? Pascual. Grassy fields. Very rare. P. July-September. 

 First recorded by Miss M. Niven in 1896. 



1. Isis. A solitary specimen in a field near Carswell, Miss M. Niven. 



The claims of S. pratensis to be considered a native plant are not estab- 

 lished in a satisfactory manner by the occurrence of a solitary specimen, but 

 as it is native and widely scattered over a considerable portion of the Isis 

 district in Oxfordshire, it is a plant we might reasonably expect to occur. 

 We must bear in mind, however, that the Geology of the Berkshire district 

 is very dissimilar from that of the Isis in Oxfordshire. 



A notice of it will be found in RusaelVs Cataloque of 1839 on the authority 

 of Mr. J. Lovsley, who states that ' it is a very rare plant in this part of the 

 country, found on a dry bank at the field-side at Blewbury near the " Wheel 

 Inn," and on a dry bank by the side of the turnpike road, near the sign of 

 the "Barley Mow," and betwixt Blewbury and Aston [Tirrel].' Without 

 <loubt these records belong to S. Verbenaca^ a plant not mentioned by Mr. J. 

 Lousley, but which occurs there. 



S. pratensis is a native plant of Oxfordshire, and has been recorded for 

 Bucks, Surrey, Hants, and Wilts ; in the last of these it was an escape, and 

 is only a doubtful native of Surrey. In Buckinghamshire it may have some 

 claims to be considered native. 



**S. vERTiciLLATA, Linii. Sp. PI. 26 (1753). 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. xviii. t. 1255. 

 Casual. Waste places. B. or P. Rare. July- September. 



2. Ock. Near Didcot Station with other casuals, 1891-6, fairly established. 



Grandjiont. 5. Loddon. Near Maidenhead. On a rubbish-heap in 

 Windsor. Near a brickyard in a field between Twyford and Ruscombe. 



**S. NEMORosA, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 35 (1762). S. sylvestris, Jacq. Fl. Austr. iii. 



t. 212, not of Linn., teste Kerner, Schedae, iii. loi. 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. xviii. t. 1253, f. ii. Nyman, 570. 

 Casual. Rare. Waste places, railway-sides, &c. P. .July-August. 

 1. Isis. Near Wytham Mill. 2. Ock. By the railway at Didcot. 



