LITTORELLA 415 



**P. ARENARiA, WaWst. & Kit. PL Ear. Hung. i. 51 (1802). 

 P. ramosa, Asch. Fl. Brand. 547. Psyllium ramosum, Gilib. Fl. Lituan. 

 i, 17 (1781). 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 552. Syme, E. B, vii. 175. Nyman, 617. 

 Alien. Casual. Waste places. Very rare. July-August. 



On waste ground at Didcot Station. 



Mr. Everett has found it near Windsor, on tlie Buckinghamshire side of 

 the river. 



P. media, Linn. Sp. PI. 113 (1753). Hoary Plantain. 



Top. Bot. 341. Syme, E. B. vii, 169, t. 1163. Nyman, 620. Fl. Oxf. 247. 

 Native. Pascual. Dry meadows, pastures, roadsides, and grassy 

 chalk downs. Not uncommon in all the districts, reaching its 

 maximum of frequency on the Chalk. P. May-October. 

 First record. Sonning. 3Ir. S. Budge, in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Pub- 

 lished in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 A form with a decumbent spike has been seen near Wantage. 

 P. media occurs in all the bordering counties. 

 P. lauceolata, Linn. Sp. PI. 113 (1753). Bib-grass, Plantain. 



Top. Bot. 342. Syme, E. B. vii. 170, 1. 1164. Nyman, 620. Fl. Oxf. 247. 

 Native. Ubiquitous. Koadsides, pastures, waste and cultivated 



soil. P. April-July. 

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

 ceolata. Very common in the best pastures, especially such as 

 have been meliorated by irrigation, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Var. TiMBALi (Jord. Pugill. 138, as a species), Syme, I.e., t. 1165. 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 552, 



A casual weed in clover crops, as at Mortimer, Maidenhead, Wel- 

 lington, and by the railway near Reading. 



Var. MAJOR, Syme, 1. c. Near Wellington College on a rubbish-heap 

 and on rich garden soil, &c., not unfrequently. 



A three-headed monstrosity (Jriceps) was found by Mr. J. C. Melvill 

 in moist meadows close to Sandford Mill, on the Loddon, in 1876. 

 P. lanceolata occurs abundantly in all the bordering countie.s. 



LITTORELLA, Berg, in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. xxix. (1768^ 341. 

 Ii. juncea, Berg. 1. c. Shoreweed. 



L. unijlora, Asch. Fl. Brand. 544. L. lacustris, Linn. Mant. ii. 295 



(i77i\ Plantago unijlora, Linn. Sp. PI. 115 (1753). 

 Top. Bot. 342. Syme, E. B. vii. 174, t. 1169. Nyman, 620. Fl. Oxf. 247. 

 Native. Lacustral. Pools. Very local. Absent from the north of 



the county. Not unfrequent in the south. P. June-August. 

 First 'recorded in Plnnock's County History and Catechism, 1819. 



3. Pang. Hermitage, Pinnock. 



4. Kennet. Aldermaston. Burghfield. Mortimer. Aldermaston 



Decoy. 



