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Art. CCXIX. — List of Flowering Plants found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Great Marlow^ Bucks, in the early part of the Summer 

 of 1843. By G. G. Mill, Esq. 



The country about Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, is scarcely if at 

 all known to the botanist ; indeed it is very little known to any ex- 

 cept those in the immediate neighbourhood, and to a few anglers who 

 visit it from its proximity to the Thames. 



After passing three summer months there, and being well repaid, 

 as far as botanical researches went, I think it will probably be interest- 

 ing to the readers of * The Phytologist ' to have some account of the 

 plants of that neighbourhood. 



The plants which grow there are either those of a chalk country, or 

 such as are fond of the banks of rivers and the neighbouring alluvial 

 soil, with the swamps and deep ditches which usually attend it; there 

 are also the plants of wet woods, of which there is no lack in the 

 country, it being composed for the most part of low ranges of thickly- 

 wooded hills. 



The plants of which there is a deficiency are such as grow on a 

 sandy or dry gravelly soil, on open heaths, or on wet spongy com- 

 mons, as will be seen by the following list. 



Clematis Vitalha. Hedges, frequent. 



Thalictrumflavum. About New Lock and Medmenham abundant, 

 and by the Thames generally. 



Rammculus aquatilis. Ponds &c. 



hederaceus. In ponds on a common by the Oxford 



road, about half way between Marlow and Stokenchurch. 



Flammula. Cookham-dean, &c. 



Lingua. By the water called the Strand, Cookham. 



Ficaria. Thickets and woods. 



• auricomus. Woods. 



bulbosus. By road-sides occasionally. 



sceleratus. By the sides of ponds. 



arvensis. Fields on both sides of the Wycombe road, 



about two miles from Marlow, very abundantly, and elsewhere. 



parviflorus. On the left bank of the Oxford road, im- 

 mediately out of the town. 



Caltha palustris. By the river, frequent. 



Aquilegia vulgaris. Bisham wood, and moist woods generally. 



