412 LAMIACEAE 



calyx in the young state, on coming to maturity are inseparable from 

 the type. 



Var. RTjDERALis , Swartz in Palmstr. Sv. Bot. t. 389 fiSog), as a species). 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 547. Top. Bot. 313. Syme, E. B. vii. 52, t. 1166. 

 Fl. Oxf. 234. 



3. Pang. One specimen was said to have been found by the Rev. 

 W. W. Newbould and Dr. Boswell Syme, in 1867, by the bridge 

 at Streatley, probably on the Oxfordshire side of the river. 

 The specimen in Herb. Brit. Mus. is not extreme ruderalis. 



Near East Ilsley B. nigra occurred with white flowers and softly 

 clothed with short pubescence. Specimens were distributed through 

 the Bot. Exch. Club for 1895. 



A small-leaved form, which has been seen at Appleton, Compton, 

 WargravCj Loddou Bridge, and Sonning, is the var. borealis (Schweig), 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. xviii. t. 1218, f. ii. It is placed under 

 B. alba in Index Kewensis. 



Ballota nigra is found plentifully in all the bordering counties. 



I have gathered true B. ruderalis in the dockyards at Southampton, but 

 there it may have very probably been introduced with other casuals. The 

 flowers appear to be a little more conspicuous and somewhat brighter in tint. 

 This attracted my attention to it, as I had noticed the same character in 

 plants of B. ruderalis which I gathered in the Prater at Vienna. 



TEUCRIUM. Linn. Gen. n. 625 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 93% 

 T. Scordium, Linn. Sp. PI. 565 (1753). Water Germander. 



Top. Bot. 311. Syme, E. B. vii. 82, t. 1092. Nj^man, 565. Fl. Oxf. 224-5. 

 Native. Paludal. Stream-sides and wet meadows. Most rare, if not 



extinct. P. August-September. 

 First record. Scordium. I heare saye that it groweth also besyde 

 Oxforde, Turner's Names of Herbes, 71, 1548. 

 2. Ock. Water Germander groweth neere to Oxenford by Rulej' on 

 both sides of the water, and in a medowe by Abington called 

 Nietford, by the relation of a learned Gentleman of S. John's in 

 the said towne of Oxenford, a diligent 4>iA.O)8oTafo?, my very good 

 friend, called Master Richard Slater, Gerard^ Herbal, 535, 1597. 

 This is the St. Neat's Meadow, where it was found by Br. Lightfoot 

 about 1780. Sowerby also records it for Berkshire, and there is 

 a specimen of his in the British Museum. 

 The plant existed in Oxfordshire at least till the sixties, but the 

 alteration at Godstow Lock destroyed it. I have hitherto been unsuc- 

 cessful in trying to find it in either county. The meadow referred to 

 by Gerard as Nietford at Abingdon is still marshy enough to yield many 

 bog and marsh plants such as Menyanthes, Ranunculus Lingua, rolygonum 

 minus, &c. It is of considerable extent, and I have a vivid recollection 

 of wading over it on a cold September day in search of this species. 



