ORNITHOGALUM 49 1 



First record. Hyacinthus racemosvs, Dr. Lamb in Sm. Engl. Fl. ii. 149, 1824.. 



4. Kennet. Near Newberry, Dr. Lamb, 1. c. Mr. Weaver pointed it out 



to me on a railway bank near the Station ; of covirse when Dr. Lamb 

 recorded it there was no railway, but neither Mr. Weaver, Mr. Jackson, 

 or myself have been able to find it elsewhere in the neighbourhood. 

 It is recorded as an introduced plant in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. 



SCILLA, Linn. Gen. n. 378. 



[S. AUTUMNALis, Linn. Sp. PI. 309 (1753). Autumnal Squill. 



Syme, E. B. ix. 198, t. 1526. Formerly occurred near Kew in Surrey, and is 

 found in the Isle of Wight and West Gloucestershire.] 



S. festalis, Salisb. Prod. 242 (1796). Blue Bell, Wild Hyacinth. 



5. nonscripta, Link, et Hoff. in der Gesell. Nat. Fr. zu Berl. neue 

 Schr. 4 (1803) 19. S. nutans, Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 366, and E. B. t. 377. 

 Hyacinthus Non-scriptus, Linn. Sp. PI. 316 (1753). Endymion nutans, 

 Dumort. Fl. Belg. 140. Agraphis nutans, Link, Handb. 166. 



Top. Bot. 403. S}me, E. B. ix. 200, t. 1528. Nyman, 731. Fl. Oxf, 307. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, coppices, hedges, bushy heaths. 



Abundant and generally distributed. P. Api'il-June. 

 First record. Htjacinthus nonscriptus, Hai'ebell Hyacinth, Mavor's Ayr. 

 Berks, 1809. With Puccinia Scillarmn, Grev. on it about Oxford, 

 Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 74, 1834. 



One of the chief adornments of our woodlands. Wytham Woods in 

 the spring offer a most beautiful sight from the countless numbers of 

 this favourite flower. Here indeed from its profusion it ' seems the 

 heaven upbreaking through the earth.' Tubney Wood, Ashampstead 

 Common, Aldermaston, Windsor Forest, and Finchampstead also show 

 it in great quantities. It is common on Ashley Hill on the London 

 Clay at an altitude of 358 feet, and at Wytham up to 500 feet. 



In the midst of the blue-flowered plants are to be seen occasionally 

 a few white and pink-flowered forms ; such have been noticed at 

 Wytham, Tubney, Bagley, Unwell, Ashampstead, Kintbury, Bintield, 

 and Windsor. 



Var. hracteata, mihi. In this form the bracts are often so much 

 developed as to considerably exceed the flowers ; such have been 

 noticed at Wytham, Appleton, Pusey, Idstone, Bagley, Wittenham, 

 Ashridge, Catmore, Snelsmore, Ufton, Burghfleld, Stubbing's Heath, 

 Swallowfield, Windsor, &c. Mr. H. C. Watson found this variety 

 constant in cultivation, see Eep. of Exch. Club 11869) 14. 



The Blue Bell, dedicated to St. George, the patron saint of England, 

 occurs in all the bordering counties. 



ORNITHOGALUM, Linn. Gen. n. 377 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 203). 



*0. NUTANS, Linn. Sp. PI. 308 (1753). Drooping Star of Bethlehem. 



Myogalum nutans, Link, Handb. i. 164. 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 582. Syme, E. B. ix. 194, t. 1523. Nyman, 728. Fl. Oxf. 307. 



