108 ONAGRACE^. 



III. On Hounslow Heath ; Huds. ii. 206. 



V. ? Bet. Acton and Uxbridge, amongst the corn ; Merrett, 59. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. Ldst: Hudson, 1778.] 



PEPLIS, Linn, 

 234. P. Portula, Z. 



Alsine rotundifol. sive Portidaca aquatica (Johns.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 384 ; iii. 431 ; Comp. 174. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 



Wet places, especially on heaths and commons ; rather common. A. ? 



July, August. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 5. Harrow Weald and Euislip Commons ; 



Melv. 30. Stanmore Heath. South Mims. 

 II. Feltham Green. 



III. Hounslow Heath. Near Hatton. 



IV. North Heath and Turner's Wood, Hampstead. 



VI. Edmonton. Hadley ! ; Warren. 



VII. Bet. Kentish Towne and Hampstead ; Johns. Ger. 615. 

 First record : Johnson, 1633 ; also the first notice of the plant as British. 

 Johnson figured it (fig. 4) in the plate affixed to the Enum. Plant. 

 Hampst. under the name Alsine aquat. fol, rotundioribus. 



ONAGRACE^. 



EPILOBIUM, Linn. 



235. S. angustifolium, L. Eose Bay. French Willow. 



Cyb. Br. i. 369 ; Comp. 168. Syme E. B. iv. t. 495. 

 Gravelly banks and woods ; rare. P. July, August. 

 I. Harrow Weald, introduced, W.M. H. ; Melv. 29. 

 II, Bank by the pier of the aqueduct which carries the water of the 

 Queen's River across the Thames Valley Ry. not far from Hampton 

 Station, in some abundance. Solitary plants in two places in the 

 unused roads, Fulwell. 

 VI. Near East Barnet, Herts, J. Woods ; B. G. 404. 



VII. Cane Wood, Hampstead ; Hdl, 201. Hedgebank in Lord Mansfield's 

 premises, J. Bliss; Park Hampst. 30. On soil brought from else- 

 where near Paddington Cemetery, where it has held its ground for 

 four years (1868); Warren. 



First record: Hill, 1760. There is some doubt as to the nativity of this 

 in Middlesex. In Hill's locality however it was probably wild, and 

 the plant found in District II. is the form E. macrocarpum, Steph., 

 which is not that usually cultivated in gardens. 



