100 ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OXONIENSIS. [April, 



tioned in the * Flora of Oxfordshire ' as being found in this neigh- 

 bourhood, and in fact new to the district, as far as I can ascertain. 



Rosa villosa grows on the edge of Bagley Wood, where I was 

 rather surprised to find it, having thought it a north-country 

 plant. Below the thicket of which it, R. arvensis, and R. canina 

 form part, grow Hierac. vulgatum, and a number of Mosses rare 

 here, as Bartramiapomiformis,Dic7'anum palustre, etc. The soil 

 is gravel and sand. In another part of the wood Rosa micrantha 

 is found, and close by was one which I think a variety of R. 

 Sabini, but in a state that did not permit me to feel very sure of 

 its species, i. e. the flowers gone, but the fruit unformed. R. 

 micrantha also occurs at Shotover, in a thicket, with Senecio 

 saracenicus and Hypericum Androscemum ; but cultivation seems 

 approaching, and threatening to exterminate these before long. 

 Among this same plantation, and at no great distance, I saw a 

 patch of Muscari racemosum, in the warm days of last March, ap- 

 parently as native there as the Violets and Primroses with which 

 it grew ; the soil, a light and sandy one (greensand), covered 

 with patches of Tortula subulata and Anacalypta lanceolata. 



Vicia lathyroides I have seen between Stow Wood and Head- 

 ington Wick, and again in meadows under Bagley Wood, near 

 Bayworth, in which meadows, but further from the shade of the 

 wood, grows alsd Ophioglossum vulgatum ; this occurs again near 

 Kidlington and Islip, but is usually bitten off, by sheep, I suppose. 

 In fields near Watlington, and again near Goring, I saw Cuscuta 

 Trifolii in patches as large as an ordinary dining-table, and con- 

 spicuous amid the green Clover around, having quite destroyed 

 and withered it up where it grew. This is probably introduced 

 with the clover-seed from abroad ; it seemed a matter of equal 

 surprise and dislike to the farmers on whose land it had effected 

 a settlement. (Enanthe fluviatilis is plentiful in some parts of 

 the Isis and Cherwell, and much more frequent here than (E. 

 Phellandrium, which I have seen but once or twice. 



Carex fulva is to be found in the bogs under Stow Wood, 

 Headington Wick, and Bullingdon Green ; most plentiful in the 

 last-named place, accompanied by C. flava, panicea, etc., the 

 ground being a spongy mass of Hypnum stillatum and H. cuspi- 

 datum, Bryum pseudo-triquetrum, and similar Mosses. Sonchus 

 asper is as common here as S. oleraceus. Anthriscus vulgaris is 

 mentioned in the ' Flora of Oxfordshire ' without date or locality. 



