50 * CAEYOPHYLLACEiE. 



Fftrry House, rather nearer the latter than the docks ; discovered 



there August, 1837, by G-. Luxford, A.L.S, ; who read a note on 



the plant before the Linn. Soc. on November 21, 1837, in which he 



says, ' If not truly indigenous it is at least perfectly naturalised. 



I . . . passed it . . . the first time I saw it (in June. 1837) . . . 



thinking it to be merely Cerastium aquaticum ; ' Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xviii. p. 687. See also Mag. Nat. Hist., N.S. i. 45. There are 



specimens, collected by Luxford in 1837, in Herb. Linn Soc; by 



H. M. Colman in 1840, and J. Freeman in 1841, in Herb. Young, 



and by Brewer in 1846, in Herb. Brit. Mm. In 1852, Mr. Thomas 



Westcombe found the plant ' growing in considerable abundance, and 



thought there was no probability of its extermination; ' Phgf. iv. 



605. Mr. J. B. Syme collected it in 1853. since which date we 



believe it has not been seen. The part, including that where it grew, 



is now covered by new docks, a railway, &c. 



This plant has not occurred elsewhere in Great Britain. The locality in 



Anglesea (see E. Syn. iii. 267, and E. B. 1577), was an error, as 



appears from a letter from Mr. Foulkes, the supposed discoverer, 



given in Smith's ' Linncsan Correspondence,' vol. ii. p. 171. 



Mr. Syme considers it 'almost certainly introduced,' and Messrs. Watson 



and Babington as ' not native ; ' it is, however, found in France, and 



throughout Germany, and formerly grew in Belgium, in localities quite 



similar to ours.] 



SILENE, Linn. 

 S. anglica, L. Cyb. Br. i. 197 ; Comp. 114. Syme E. B. ii. t. 202. II. A 

 single plant by a farm road, Tangley Park ; a casual straggler, doubt- 

 less introduced. 



89. S. inflata, Sm. Bladder Campion. Spatling Poppy. 

 Lychnis sylvestris quce Ben album vulgo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 195 ; Comp. 113. Syme E. B. ii. t. 199. 

 Koadsides and cornfields ; rather rare. P. June — August. 



I. Harefield, frequent ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 54. Eoad south of Harrow 

 Weald Common. 

 II. Staines. Bet. Sunbury and Walton Bridge. Teddington, abundant. 

 Bet. Kingston Bridge and Hampton Court. 



III. Eoxeth; Melv. 12. Hounslow. Twickenham (a var.) ; Doody MSS. 



IV. Pinner Drive; Melv. 12. Edgware, 1827-30; Varenne. Bishop's 



Wood ; Lawson. Stanmore. 

 First record: Doody, about 1696. 



90. ^ S. noctiflora, L. 



Cyb. Br. i. 291 ; iii. 391 ; Comp. 115. Syme E. B. ii. t. 209. 

 Waste ground on a sandy soil ; very rare. A. July, August. 

 III. A single plant on the edge of Hounslow Heath, near the road, 1866. 



