414 PLANTAGINACEAE 



Some of tlie woods on the Chalk show a beautiful display of its 

 flowers in May. 



A. repians is found in all the bordering counties. 



A. Chamaepitys, Schreb. Unilab. 24 (1773). Ground Pine. 



Teucrium Chamaepitys, Linn. Sp. PI. 565 (1753). Chamaepitys mas, Gerard, 421. 

 Top. Bot. 312. Syme, E. B. vii. 80, t. 1090. Nyman, 568. 



First and only record. Ground Pine, in the Vale of the White Horse, 

 Spencer's Complete British Traveller, 1771. 



It is possible that the above vague record is correct, but I have been uJiable 

 to verify it. It should be sought for in sandy cornfields. 



The plant is recorded for Surrey and Hamipshire. 



PLANTAGINACEAE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 267 (1836). 



PLANTAGO, Linn. Gen. n. 133 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 48). 

 P. major, Linn. Sp. PI. 112 (1753). Way-bread^ Qreater Plantain. 



P. lati/olia, Gerard, 338. 

 Top. Bot. 341, Syme, E. B. vii. 167, t. 1162. Nyman, 620. Tl. Oxf. 247. 

 Native. Pascual, Pastures, waysides, waste places, margins of 



ponds, &c. Common and generally distributed. P. May-Sept. 

 First record. Sonning. Mr. S. Budge, in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. P. major, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. With Erysiphe lamprocarpa, Link, on it 

 about Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 207, 1837, 

 Var. INTERMEDIA (Gilib. PI. Europ. i. 125, as a species). 



1. Isis. Wytham. Appleton. 2. Ock. Marcham. Abingdon 



Racecourse. 3. Pang. Near Pangbourn. 4. Kennet. 



Tilehnrat, Tufnail. Greenham. Snelsmore. Burghfield. Inkpen. 

 Mortimer. 5. Loddon. Sonning, Tufnail. Near Wellington 



College. Finchampstead. Wargrave. Warren Row. Stub- 

 bing's Heath. Windsor Park. Shottesbrooke, &c. 

 Plantago major is found in all the bordering counties. 



P. Coronopus, Linn. Sp. PI. 115 (1753). Buck's Horn Plantain. 



Top. Bot. 342. Syme, E. B. vii. 173, t. 1168. Nyman, 617. Fl. Oxf. 246. 

 Native. Ericetal. Dry sandy pastures, heaths, roadsides. Locally 



common, especially on the heaths in the Kennet and Loddon 



districts. A. May-September. 

 First record. P. Coronopus, Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



2. Ock. Blewbury Downs by Chance Barn and on other light 



soils, Lousley. Boar's Hill. Wootton Heath. Frilford. Tubney. 

 Besilsleigh. 



3. Pang. Hermitage Common, Lousley in Russell's Cat. Oai-e Common. 



Cold Ash Common. Bucklebury. Curridge Common. 



4. Kennet and 5. Loddon. Too frequent to need a list of localities. 

 P. Coronopus occurs in all the bordering counties, but it is very local 



in Oxfordshire. 



