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First record: Morison, 1682. Most abundant on the clay, and much 

 less frequent in the SW, part of the county. "With white flowers 

 (I.) Old Park Wood, Harefield. Also (IV.) in Bentley Priory woods ; 

 Melv. 13. 



9ft. * 1. Gitbag^o, Lam. Corn Cockle. 



L. segetum major, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 207 ; Comp. 117. Syme E. B. ii. t. 215. 

 A cornfield weed, and a straggler in waste places ; rather rare. A. June 



— August. 

 I. Harefield, not frequent ; Blachst. Fasc. 55. Kuislip; Melv. 13. 

 II. Bet, Kingston Bridge and Hampton Court, on earth brought from 

 elsewhere. 



III. Wood End; 3Ielv. 13. A single plant near Twickenham Ey. 



Station. 



IV. Stanmore, 1815; Varenne. Midland Eailway, near Edgware, a 



single specimen. 

 V. Near Ealing ! ; near Acton ! ; Newb. By canal, Apperton, only one 

 plant. 

 VI. Edmonton. 

 First record : Blackstone, 1737. This, like many cornfield plants, is 

 scarce in Middlesex, from corn being only cultivated in a small 

 part of the county. In other parts it becomes a wayside weed of un- 

 certain appearance. 



(Buffonia annua, BC. Alsine polygonoides tenuifolia, flosculis ad longi- 

 tudinem caulis velut m sjpicam dispositis, Pluk. (K. Syn. ii.). B. 

 tenuifolia, Sm. (M. & G.). Cyb. Br. i. 234. E. B. t. 1313. III. ' On 

 Hounslow Heath;' MS. note by Boody in his copy of B. Syn. ii. 

 opp. p. 210, ' 7,' and copied by Dillenius in B. Syn. iii. 346. We 

 found it .... on Hounslow Heath, where Mr. Doody observed it ; 

 M. 4' G. 199. Mr. Watson suggests that Mocnchia erecta was mis- 

 taken for it. It seems to us more probable that Doody accidentally 

 wrote his note of the locality opposite the wrong species, intend- 

 ing perhaps to refer to 'An. ^' = Spergula. Milne and Gordon 

 may have found a tall-growing plant of Juncus bufonius. The 

 Eng. Bot. figure was drawn from a garden specimen, and the con- 

 tinental distribution of the species does not favour the probability of 

 its having occurred here.) 



SAGINA, Linn. 



95. S. procumbens, L. Pearlwort. 



Saxifraga pusilla graminea fl. parvo hcrbido, et muscoso (Merrett). 



Saxifraga anglica alsinefolia, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 209 ; iii. 392 ; Comp. 118. Syme E. B. ii. t. 248. 



