488 LILIACEAE 



3. Pang. In Corpus Wood, two miles from Streatley, 1819, Baxter 



in Purt. Midi. Fl. Plentiful in Park Coppice and Laycroft Wood, 

 Hampstead Norris, Loushy in Russell's Cat Ashridge Wood, 

 Heicetfs Hist and the avthor in Rep. of Bot. Exch. Club, 1892. Ilsley, 

 BosiveU. Bradfield, Jenkinson, Unwell Wood, at 530 feet, Wesf. 

 Near Fril^^ham. Cold Ash Common Wood. Fence Wood. 

 Hawkridge Wood. Bennet's Wood. Oare Wood. Oarebury 

 Hill Wood. Langley Wood. Roebuck Wood. Bucklebury. 

 Ashampstead. Yattendon. Near Marlstone. Englefield. Near 

 Tilehurst. Standford Dingley. Fence Wood. Abundant and 

 luxuriant in Ashridge Wood and in rather wet low-lying woods 

 by the Pang near Tidmarsh. Sometimes with a branching 

 stem, when it is var. ramosa (Doell. Fl. von Baden, 384 sub 

 ConvaUaria), as in Ashridge. 



4. Kennet. Near the Wash, Newbury, Ray, I. c. Common in woods 



near Newbury, Bicheno in Mavor's Agr. Berks. Kintbury, Gotobed. 

 W. Woodhay, Reeks in Britt. Contr. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. San- 

 dleford. Weaver. In Wasing Wood, Lighffoot's MSS. Penge Wood, 

 Tufnail. Near Enborne. Aldermaston. UftonWood. Padworth. 

 Brimpton. Abundant in Riever Wood. Tilcombe Green. 



5. Loddon. Between Shinfield and Swallowfield, Tufnail. Finch- 



ampstead Woods, common, Penny, in Joum. Bot. 1873. Ashley 

 Hill Wood. 



One of our most elegant plants, from its arching habit, delicate leaves, and 

 drooping flowers. P. multiflorum has a curious distribution in the county. 

 It is absent from the Isis and Ock districts, and from the northern part of 

 the Pang district, Ashridge and Unwell Woods being two of its more 

 northern stations. Unlike many of the rarer plants, Polygonatwn appears 

 to shun the river frontage. In the central and southern portions of the 

 Pang, and in the western part of the Kennet district, it is very abundant, 

 and in Riever Woods grows at an altitude of nearly 800 feet. In the extreme 

 south of the Loddon district it appears to be rare or absent, that is, over the 

 Forest district of Windsor, and it does not appear in the eastern chalk woods 

 by the Thames. On the Oxfordshire side of the Thames I only know of it in 

 one station. 



Pohjgonatum rmiltiflorum is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



[P. OFFICINALE, All. Fl. Pcd. I3I (1785). 



ConvaUaria Polygonatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 315. P. Polygonatum, Jirasek ex 

 Schult, f. Syst. vii. 299. Syme, E. B. ix. 178, t. 15 12. 



Is recorded for Hants, Wilts, and Gloucestershire, and may possibly be 

 found in the western part of the Kennet district.] 



CONVAIiLARIA, Linn. Gen. n. 383. 



C, majalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 314 (1753). Lily of the Valley. 



Top. Bot. 404. Syme, E. B. ix. 180, t. 1514. Nyman, 717. Fl. Oxf. 304. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods and coppices. Very local and rare. P. 



May-June. 

 First recorded in Coles' Adam in Eden, 25, 1657. 



