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BOTANY OF THE CHILTERNS. 

 Further Remarks on the Botany of the Chilterns. 



By C. J. ASHFTELD. 



During a visit of a couple of days to Aylesbury, in September^ 

 1862, I determined to devote the afternoon of one of them to a 

 ramble on the Chiltern Hills, near Wendover, partly for the en- 

 joj^ment of the invigorating breezes and beautiful views which 

 there abound, but chiefly of course for the purpose of searching 

 for the floral productions of the same hills. I met with consi- 

 derable success, considering the shortness of the time at my dis- 

 posal and the lateness of the season, and found many plants not 

 mentioned in the short article published in the ' Phytologist ' in 

 April last, p. 118. 



I took advantage of a '^ lift " to Wendover, and, after walking 

 al)Out a couple of miles along the Araersham road, turned to the 

 right at Wendover Dean, and soon began to ascend the hills. I 

 soon met with Conyza squarrosa and Origanum vulgare by the 

 side of the lane. On arriving about two-thirds of the way up the 

 ascent, I got on the hedgebank to look over into the adjoining 

 field, and saw a very conspicuous-looking shrub in a hedge a little 

 distance off". On reaching it I found it to be Pyrus Ai'ia, and I 

 afterwards met with it plentifully in woods and hedges during 

 the day's walk, and in a few places growing with Viburnum Lan- 

 tana. In a hedge nearly at the top of the hill, I met with a quan- 

 tity of Euphorbia amygdaloides, and afterwards saw it growing 

 most plentifully in a beech-wood at the summit. In the same 

 wood grew Hieracium sabaudum and some others of that difiicult 

 tribe, as well as Humuliis Lupidus, Euonymus europceus, and the 

 before- mentioned Pyrus Aria and Viburnum Lantana. About 

 the edges of the wood I found an abundance of Poterium San- 

 guisorba, Galium Mollugo, Centaurea scabiosa, and Origanum 

 vulgare. I particularly examined several cornfields on my route, 

 aud found numerous plants peculiar to such localities. The most 

 a])undant of them, and also the rarest generally, was Iberis amara. 

 This plant appears to have a wide range upon the Chilterns, for 

 in July, 1850, I found it growing abundantly near Whiteleaf 

 Cross, several miles distant from the locale of my late ramble 

 (' Phytologist,' April, 1861, p. 118). Linaria minor, Veronica 



