ELEOCHA.EIS 5^5 



•Native. Paludal. Shallow ponds, marshes, wet meadows, &c. Common 



and generally distributed. P. April-July. 

 First record. S. equiseti capitulo majori. Wet meadows near Oxford, 

 Dillenius in Herb. Oxf. 1730. Scirpiis palustris, Bulmarsh Heath, 

 Mr. S. Budge in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Eleocharis ijalustris, wet 

 meadow under Bisham Wood, Mr. G. G. Mill in Phyt. i. 994, 1843. 

 Without locality in EusseH's Neicbury Cat. 1839. 

 This plant is too frequent throughout the county to need a list of 

 localities. Pound the margins of many of our ponds it forms a con- 

 spicuous zone of vegetation. It varies considerably in size ; a small 

 form from the Wytham fields and Marcham meadows is very probably 

 the var. minor (Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. no, under Scirpus). The spike is 

 ovate-lanceolate, and fewer flowered than the type, and the culm 

 slightly curved at the base. A large form occurs in ponds, &c., as at 

 Wargrave and Pad ley. 



In a pond on the heath near Sandhurst I found viviparous specimens 

 in which the young plant, six inches in size, remained attached to the 

 parent. 



E. pahistris is found in all the bordering counties. 



E. unigfluznis, Schult. Mant. ii. 88 (1824), sub Heleocharis. 



Scirpus tinigliimis, Link, Jahr. d. Gew. i. 3 (1818^, 77 (teste Richter, 

 the date is given 1820 in Index Kewensis). E. pahistris, var. 

 uniglumis. 



Top. Bot", 443. Syme, E. B. x. 52, t. 1587. Nyman, 767. Fl. Oxf. 321. 



Native. Paludal. Marshy meadows. Very local. P. July. 



First recoi'd. Near Botley by Mr, W. T. Dyer in Journ. Bot. 75, 1872. 



1. Isis. Mr. A. G. More . . . agrees with me in certainly i-eferring 



to [this species] a plant collected in a marshy field on the north 

 side of the Seven Bridge Road near Botley, Berks, W. T. JDijer, 

 l. c. [Probably in Oxfordshire, as the Berkshire boundary is 

 now taken from the farthest stream on the Botley Road.] In 

 a meadow near Wytham and in a meadow on the west side of 

 the boundary stream north of the Botley Road. 



2. Ock. On the Berkshire side of the water near Ferry Hinksey, 



where Mr. H. Baker has also found it. 



[Also gathered in the meadows above Godstow in Oxfordshire by 

 the Rev. L. V. Lester.] 



E. uniglumis, which is made a synonym of E. palustris by Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke and in Index Kewensis, is only recorded for Hampshire of the 

 bordering counties. 



E. multicaulis, Sm. Engl. Fl. i. 64, 



Scirpus multicaulis, Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 48 (1800) p.p. E. B. t. 1187. 

 Top. Bot. 444. Syme, E. B. x. 53, t. 1588. Nyman, 767. Fl. Oxf. 321. 



