54^ CYPEKACEAE 



Abingdon Road. In a ditch on the south side of the Eynsham 

 Road. 

 2. Ock. Cumnor Hurst, Dyer. Powder Hill Copse, Boswell. Hen 



Wood. 

 [5. Loddon. If Dr. Noehden's plant is correctly named, it must 

 have been from the neighbourhood of Windsor, but it may have 

 been from Buckinghamshire.] 

 The record of Hinksey, Morison in the Flora of Oxfordshire, must be 

 deleted ; the specimen in the Herb, is C. panicea. 



C.pendida is one of our most graceful plants ; when growing, as it 

 does in Wytham Wood, in the greatest luxuriance and abundance, it 

 affords a most beautiful appearance. Its occurrence usually marks the 

 junction of a porous stratum with clay. 



C. pendula is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



C. strig-osa, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 411 (1778), not of Allioni. 



Top. Bot. 466. Syme, E. B. x. 141, t. 1661. Nyman, 769. Fl. Oxf. 324. 



Native. Sylvestral. Shady places and woods. Very rare. P. June. 



First record. Prope Oxford D. Sheffield, in Huds. FL Angl. I. c. 411, 



1778. Woods near Oxford, Mr. Newberry ex Stokes in With. Bot. 



Arr. ed. 2, ii. 104, 1787, in Sm. Fl. Brit. 982, 1800, and Engl. Fl. 



iv. 96, 1828. 



1. Isis. Wytham Wood, Sheffield. 



It is rather curious, if the above record be correct, that no other 

 botanist should have been able to rediscover it. The only specimen 

 which I have seen labelled C. strigosa from Wytham was a large 

 specimen of C. sylvatica collected about 1830. C. sylvatica is abundant 

 there, and occurs in a more luxuriant growth than is usually the case. 

 Sibthorp in Flora Oxon. recorded C. strigosa from Noke Wood in that 

 county, and Dr. Goodenough, in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. c, 1792, states that 

 ' My friend Dr. Juo. Sibthorp has lately discovered this plant in another 

 situation in the neighbourhood of Oxfox'd.' See also the third edition 

 of Withering's Bot. Arr., the New Botanist's Guide, &c. I have been 

 equally unfortunate in trying to find it in the Oxford station. Is there 

 not some probability of some other plant having been mistaken for the 

 true C. strigosa ? In the Sherardian Herbarium at Oxford a specimen 

 of C. hrachystachys {C. strigosa, All. not of Huds.) is labelled by Sibthorp 

 C. strigosa, but, of course, this may have been done prior to his becoming 

 acquainted with Hudson's plant. The determination of a specific 

 name from an Herbarium specimen, named by its author, must not be 

 too implicitly relied on, unless dates, &c., are compared. 



4. Kennet. After many years' unsuccessful hunting for this species 

 in the Upper Thames province, the author was rewarded hy 

 finding it at the base of the chalk escarpment near Riever 

 Wood, which is close to the Wiltshire boundary. Specimens 



