SPARGANIUM 507 



5. Loddon. Pond at the foot of Cookham Down, Mill. Wargrave, 

 Stanton. Between Wellington Coll. and Blackwater Station, 

 Penny. Wokingham. Shottesbrooke. Waltham. Ruscombe. 

 Bearwood. Coleman's Moor. Easthampstead. Swinley. Bin- 

 field. Bray. Clewer. By the pond near Cumberland Lodge, 

 Windsor Park. Progmore, &c. 



The plant has a great partiality for ponds in brickyards, and it soon 

 occupies such a situation in a newly-opened place, to which the Hght, minute 

 seeds doubtless are carried by the wind. 



The var. media, ? T. media [Schleich. Exs. Cat. 59] in DC. Fl. Fr. vi. 302, has 

 been found by Mr. J. C. Melvill on the Oxford side of the river near Wargrave. 



In the sluggish water and mud banks near Boulney Court grow lofty 

 plumes of reeds and reed mace seven or eight feet high, of quite a tropical 

 character, G. D. Leslie in Our River. 



T. latifolia is found in all the bordering counties. 



T. angustifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 971 (1753). Smaller Cafs Tail. 



T. minor, Park. 1204 and Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. iii. t. 62. 



Top. Bot. 429, Syme, E. B. ix. 4, t. 1386. Nyman, 757. Fl. Oxf. 316. 



Native. Paludal. Ponds and riversides. Eather local, P. June-July. 



First record. At Cumnor, near Oxford, in a large old fish-pond, known 

 there by the name of Lady Dudley's Pond, but which is now 

 nearly filled up with moss, &c., and has become nothing more than 

 a bog, plentifully, 1838, Baxter, Phaen. Bot. n. 377, 1840. 



1. Isis. Cumnor, Baxter. Not there now, but T. latifolia is plentiful. 



Buscot Lake. Buckland Lake. 



2. Ock. Between Sandford and Nuneham, with leaves nearly half 



an inch broad, Baxter. Near Radley. In the Abingdon meadow.s. 



3. Pang. By the Thames, in two or three places, between Walling- 



ford and Reading. 

 5. lioddon. Near Wellington College, Tufnail. Shinford Green. 



Easthampstead. By the Loddon. Abundant and very luxuriant 



in a pond near Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Park, perhaps 



the T. elatior, Boenn. Prod. Fl. Monast. 274. 

 Typha angustifolia is recorded for all the bordering counties except 

 Bucks. 



SPARGANIUM, Linn. Gen. n. 925 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 302). 

 S. erectum, Linn. Sp. PI. 971 (1753). Ch-eat Bur Reed. 



S. ramosum, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 401 (1778), and of C. B. Pin. 15. 

 Top. Bot. 429. Syme, E. B. ix. 5, t. 1387. Nyman, 757. Curt. Fl. 



Lond. fasc. v. t. 66. Fl. Oxf. 316. 

 Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers, brooks, ponds, and canals. The 

 aggregate species is abundant and generally distributed in the low- 

 lying parts of the county. P. June-July. 



