98 Alexander Goodman More. 



could not be turned out. Their shape is between a long- 

 tail Tit and a Whitethroat, and the tail is often flirted up. 

 On the Chalk Down, towards Cowpit Cliff Copse, into 

 which I next descended, the most interesting plant is Pyrus 

 aria (white beam tree), truly wild in the crevices of the 

 rock, and probably the beech is so too below. From out 

 the ivy-clad crevices I started a white owl that looked most 

 bewildered in the full daylight, appropriate as he was to 

 the spot. 



"Galeoldolon (yellow weasel-snout) and Prenanthes 

 (wall-lettuce) and abundance of nettles grow here. Now 

 are these latter aborigines ? And if not, what of the 

 beech ? I must see if any foreign trees occur in the wood. 

 Allium ursinum (garlic) grows here, though not a root of it 

 is to be found in Apse Wood so near to it. A similar in- 

 stance is the occurrence of anemone in the strip of copse 

 close to Centurion's, yet not reaching the copse itself. 

 Near Apse Farm I gathered Scirpus setaceus, and in the 

 wood found nothing remarkable. In the wet willow-bed, 

 before you come toNinham's Heath, Carex laevigata, remota, 

 and paniculata were noticed, and in its locality Luzula 

 borreri* all over the copse (no ripe seeds). 



" Ninham's Heath is a good spot for plants. I soon 

 found Vicia angustifolia (narrow-leaved vetch), Erodium 

 cicutarium (hemlock stork's-bill), Cerastium tetrandrum 

 (four-cleft mouse-ear), C. semidecandrum (little mouse- 

 ear), Festuca tenuifolia (a variety of sheep's fescue grass) 

 whose leaves, but for their want of glaucous colour, are so 

 like Agrostis setacea, Filago minima (least cudweed), 

 Myosotis collina (early scorpion grass), Aira prsecox 

 (early hair grass), &c. In the willow-bed, near Apse 

 Heath, Equisetum sylvaticum (wood horse-tail), and the 

 heath is covered with Agrostis setacea. Near the Lodge 

 Gate Carex muricata. At Winford the Lactuca (lettuce) 

 much dilapidated from being browsed, by boys (?) or don- 

 keys (?) ; scarce a chance of obtaining a flowering head. 

 However it is, I believe, not scariola but virosa. Cheli- 



* A wood-rush, so named by Dr. Bromfield, but afterwards pronounced a 

 barren form of Luzula pilosa. 



