BOTANY 



reclamation has disappeared from our county as it apparently has from 

 Bucks ; the buck's-horn plantain [Plantago Coronopus) has not been recently 

 found, but is recorded for all the bordering counties except Hunts ; the 

 Lancashire asphodel {Narthecium ossifragum), an inhabitant of peaty bogs, 

 has never been recorded for Northants, Oxford or Leicester ; the sea 

 club-rush {Scirpus maritimus), as its name implies, is usually found near 

 the coast, but it has also been found in ditches of brackish water in 

 Warwickshire, Hunts and Cambridge ; the deer's grass (S. caspitosus)^ 

 a native of peaty moors, very rare in Warwick, but is recorded for Beds, 

 Cambridge, Lincoln and Leicester, though probably now extinct in the 

 latter county ; the hare's-tail cotton grass [Eriphorutn vaginatum) , a native 

 of boggy heathland, recorded for Lincoln, Leicester and Warwick; the 

 brittle bladder-fern [Cystopteris fragilis) does not appear to be native to 

 Northants, Oxford or Warwick, but is possibly so in Leicester ; and the 

 fir club-moss [Lycopodium Selago), found in Bucks, Oxford and Leicester, 

 but said to be extinct in Warwick. 



Of the native plants of Britain other than purely maritime, which 

 are recorded for not fewer than sixty or more than eighty Watsonian vice- 

 counties, several are absent, but of the absentees only the hairy buttercup 

 {Ranunculus sardous), reported from Hunts, Cambridge, Lincoln, Leices- 

 ter and Warwick ; the pearlwort [Sagina subulatd), found in Bucks ; the 

 bloody cranesbill {Geranium sanguineum), a doubtful native to Beds ; the 

 tiny all-seed {Millegrana Radiola), found in Bucks, Warwick, Lincoln, 

 Leicester and Oxford ; the small trefoil {Trifolium Jiliforme), found in all 

 the bordering counties except Lincoln ; the golden saxifrage {Chrysosple- 

 nium alternifolium), recorded from Warwick, Lincoln and Leicester ; the 

 Alexanders {Smyrnium Olusatrum), usually an alien inland ; the marsh 

 hawk's-beard {Crepis pa/udosa), essentially a northern plant which does 

 not extend further south than Warwick and Leicester ; the cranberry 

 {Oxycoccos quadripetala), found in Lincoln, Warwick and Hunts, but is 

 extinct in Cambridgeshire ; the cowberry, a northern plant, extends into 

 Warwickshire ; the winter-green {Pyrola minor), recorded for all the 

 bordering counties except Hunts, Leicester and Cambridge ; the chaff- 

 weed {Centunculus minimus), not recorded for Hunts, Lincoln or Leices- 

 ter ; the small periwinkle {Vinca minor), not native to Northants ; the 

 small bladderwort {TJtricularia minor), reported from Beds, Hunts, Cam- 

 bridge and Warwick ; the small skull-cap {Scutellaria minor) occurs in 

 Oxford, Bucks, Lincoln, Leicester and Warwick ; the crowberry (£ot- 

 petrum nigrum), formerly in Charnwood Forest, Leicester, and still in 

 Warwickshire ; the pondweed {Potamogeton gramineus or heterophyllus) is 

 recorded for Hunts, Cambridge, Lincoln and Leicester, and may reward 

 the searcher in some of our fen dykes ; the sedge {Carex lavigata) occurs 

 in Leicester and Warwick ; the grey sedge (C. canescens) recorded for 

 Warwick, Cambridge, Bucks and Leicester, but not recently found in the 

 two latter counties ; the oak fern {Phegopteris Dryopteris), found locally 

 in Bucks and Oxford, are the species which have been reported for the 

 counties which border Northamptonshire. 



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