OPHIOGLOSSUM 613 



1696. Filix hotrytis sive Jlorida major pinnulis non dentatis ex adverso 

 nascentibiis, nobis, Osmunda, Adv. Lob. Comitatu Bercheriae . . . 

 provenit, (Bohart) Morison, Hist. Ox. in. 593, 1699. 



3. Pang. In a wood belonging to Lord Wantage in the central 



portion of the district, very fine specimens* 



4. Kennet. Woodhay, Weaver. [The High Clere locality given by 



Mr. Reeks is in Hampshire.] Ufton Wood. 



5. Loddon. Coleman's Moor and Early Heath, MS. in Ray ! Bag- 



shot Heath, Doody. [The locality may have been in Surrey.] 

 In great abundance at the end of Sunninghill Heath in a ditch 

 on right hand going to Bracknell, Lightfoot's- MS. Woods near 

 Wellington College, almost extinct, Peiiny ! Near Heading, Ash- 

 mole. Between Wargrave and Bisham, 1894. Near Bearwood, 

 1895. Finchampstead. Given in Britten's Conirihutions for North 

 Berkshire on the authority of Mr. Boswell, but there is some 

 misunderstanding, as Mr. Boswell has told me he never gathered 

 it in the county. 

 Osmunda is recorded for the counties of Bucks, Surrey, and Hants. 



OPHIOGLOSSUM, Linn. Gen. n. 1035 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 325\ 

 O. vulgatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1062 (1753). Adder's Tongue. 



Ophioglossum, Gerard, 327. 

 Top. Bot. 524. Syme, E. B. xii. 19, t. 1835. Nyman, 870. Fl. Oxf. 364. 

 Native. Pascual. Meadows, pastures, grassy rides in woods. Locally 



common. P. May-July. 

 First record. In a close between Botley and Mrs. Bateman's house on 



the West side of Oxford, PFwi. Coles, Adam in Eden, 559, 1657. 



Adder's tongue in all ye meadows about Oxford, MS. note in Lyte's 



Herball, 1660. 



1. Isis. Shrivenham. Wytham Meadows. Near Cumnor by the 



Blind- Pinnocks. Idstone, in a small wood. 



2. Ock. Near Bagley Wood, 5osM;eZi mP//t/^. iv. (i860) 100. Marcham, 



Walker. Denchworth, Wait. Meadow at Fyfield, Miss F. M. 

 Parker. Plentiful in some of the meadows between Blewbury 

 and Hagbourne. In Thorncroft Meadow, Blewbury, J. Lousley 

 in Russell's Cat. 1839. Hinksey Meadows. Kadley. Abundant and 

 luxuriant in the large meadow between Pad ley and Abingdon. 

 8. Pang. Near Bradfield. 



4. Kennet. Near Newbury, Weaver. Shaw. Near Theale. 



5. Loddon. Included in the Wellington College List. Park Place, 



Tufnail. Near Twyford, Dr. Ashby. Quarry Wood, Britten. 



Bisham. In Windsor Park, rather plentifully. 

 Near Cumnor the fertile spikes were often two on one plant. 

 Ophioglossum is found in all the bordering counties. 



