BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BOTANY, i6i 
The illustrious Ray, whose method of classifying plants formed 
the basis of that system which is generally received at the present 
day, and whose knowledge of British plants was very compre- 
hensive, makes a few additions to the Buckinghamshire flora. 
In his ‘ Catalogus Plantarum Angliz,’ (1670) he gives—-. 
23. Dianthus deltoides L. (Maiden Pink).—‘‘Mr. G. Horsnell 
gathered it on a little hill near Slough, about a mile-and-half 
from Windsor, called Mantham Hill.” 
In the first edition of the ‘ Synopsis’ (1696)— 
24. Heracleum Sphondylium L. var. angustifolium. — “ Found 
by Dr. Plukenet near 8. Giles’s Chalfont in the mountainous 
meadows, Buckinghamshire.” 
In the second edition of the same work (1696)— 
25. Symphytum officinale L. (Comfrey) (the form 8S. patens Sibth ) 
—‘ Dr. Plukenet observed it plentifully near Eaton.” 
26. Salix rubra Huds.—‘‘ In the Osier-holt, between Maiden- 
head and Windsor.” 
In the third edition (edited by Dillenius), 1734, is given— 
27. Hordeum sylvaticum Huds. (Wood Barley).—‘‘In the 
high woods by Hambleton, in the road from Henley to Great 
Marlborow [Marlow]. Mr. J. Sherard in company with Mr. 
Rand.” 
Besides these, the following are localised by Ray in the 
Stokenchurch Woods, a small portion of which is within our 
borders : Rubus Ideus, Triticum caninum, Cephalanthera grandi- 
flora, Tilia rubra, and Pyrola rotundifolia, P. minor being pro- 
bably mistaken for this last. 
John Blackstone, who devoted considerable attention to 
British Botany, introduces a larger number of Buckingham- — 
shire plants to our notice than any author before or since. 
They are chiefly from the neighbourhood of Harefield, Middlesex, 
as far as those which he records from his own observation are 
concerned ; others in the county were brought under his notice 
by friends and correspondents. In his first little book, 
*Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield nascentium’ (1737), he 
gives the following :— 
