496 LILIACEAE 



First record. Asphodehu^ Lancastriae. Lancashire Asphodill. Thomas 

 Edwards . . . found this Asphodill at the foote of a hill in the 

 west part of England, called Bagshot hill, neere vnto a village of 

 the same name, Gerard's Herbal, 89, 1597. [The locality may have 

 been in Surrey, but the plant occurs on Bagshot Heath in Berk- 

 shire.] Narthecium ossifragum, Mr. Bicheno, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



2. Ock. On Wootton Bogs, first found by Lord Webb Seymour, 



and seen for several years. Since destroyed by enclosure, I)r. 

 Williams' MS. 



3. Pang. Cold Ash Common. 



4. Kennet. Snelsmore and Woodhay Commons, Bunny in Russell's Cat. 



Bogs on Greenham Common, Bicheno, I.e. Newtown Common, 

 Stubbs in Britt. Contr. Wickham, Mrs. Bafson. Burghfield Common, 

 Rev. A. Bird in Baxt. Phaen. Bot. Inkpen Common, Hewett. 

 Mortimer, Tufnail. 



5. Loddon. Bagshot Heath, Gerard. In great plenty at Sunning- 



wells upon the peat bogs, 1762, and at Virginia Water, Lightfoot 

 MS. Bulmarsh Heath, Rudge, 1800, in Herb. Brit. Mvs. See also 

 Bot. Guide, 1805. Ascot, Wilkin. Windsor Great Park, Bot. 

 Guide. Warren Row, Stanton. [I could not see it here.] Wel- 

 lington College, Penny. Abundant near Sandhurst. Broadmoor. 

 Owls Moor. Easthampstead Plain. Finchampstead Ridges, near 

 Spout Pond. Long Moor. Abundant near Ascot Station by the 

 railway. Whitemoor Bog. Near Wellington College Station. 

 The flowers have a faint odour of the clove pink. 

 As will be seen, Narthecium no longer exists in the Isis, Ock, nor 

 probably in the Pang districts, and is confined in the Kennet and 

 Loddon districts to the area of boggy heaths chiefly situated on the 

 Bagshot Sands. 



N. ossifragum (spelt Ofsifragum by Hudson) is absent from Oxford- 

 shire, and is not recorded for E. Gloucestershire. 



PARIS, Linn. Gen. n. 449 (Ruppius). 



P. quadrifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 367 (1753). Herb Paris, True Love, One 



Berry. 

 Top. Bot. 406. Syme, E. B. ix. 173, t. 1509. Nyman, 717. Fl. Oxf. 304. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Damp woods. Very local. P. May-June. 

 First record. Herba Paris. It growes in Merley Wood, MS. in Lijte's 



Herball, 1660. P. quadrifolia, Mr. Bicheno, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Mevley Wood, MS. iti Lyte and Sir J. Banks. Wytham Wood, 



Baxter, in Purt. Midi. Fl. Still plentiful there, and plants bearing 

 three, five, six, and seven leaves have been noticed in addition to 

 those having the normal number of four. 



2. Osk. White Horse Hill, Bolton King in Herb. Miss C. E. Palmer. 



