A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



EUPHORBIACE^ CvPERACEffi 



Euphorbia platyphyllos L. Scirpus acicularis L. 



PoLYGONACE^ 



Polygonum Rail Bab. Gram.ne^ 



Poa compressa L. 



Amentifer^ P^3j^^^ ^^l^ig^^ ^^ Q^ll 



Salix laurina Forst. p. sylvatica Fill. 



Naiadaceje 



Potamogeton rufescens Schrad. Filices 



P. rutilus Wolf. Aspkmum marinum L. 



VII. The Medway 



This comparatively small district is bounded by Surrey and Kent on the north, and on 

 the east by the Rother. Its southern boundary is formed by the Cuckmere and the Ouse. 

 We leave the Ouse district at Handcross and bear westward across the Forest to Colgate 

 and Stone Lodge. We then bear north-east to Roughey Street and east of Rusper to the 

 Surrey boundary. This district is drained by the Medway, which originating in Sussex from 

 a number of little streams becomes the boundary between Kent and Sussex, and runs into 

 the German Ocean ; and by the Mole, an independent river, which has its principal sources 

 on the north side of the Forest Ridge, and which passing into Surrey joins the Thames at 

 Hampton Court. This district differs from the rest in having no seaboard. It includes 

 Waterdown Forest and a great part of the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, and has an 

 argillaceous soil more or less mixed with calcareous grit and sandstone rocks in parallel ridges. 

 Damp hollows, rocky ravines and occasionally patches of bog are frequent. Several lists of 

 its plants are extant. Observers however have not always been careful to separate Sussex 

 species from those occurring beyond the Kentish border. 



Its rarer plants are these : — 



Fumariace^ Umbellifer^ 



Fumaria confusa Jord. Bupleurum rotundifolium L. 

 Crucifer^ Aristolochiace^ 



Cardamine amara L. Aristolochia Ckmatitts L. 

 Teesdalia nudicaulis Br. ^ 



GeNTIANEjE 



Caryophyllace^ Cicendia filiformis Delarb. 



Sagina subulata Wimm. ^ 



^ Composite 



Elatinace^ Cnicus Forsteri Sm. 



Elatine hexandra DC. „ 



POLYCONACE^ 



' eguminifer* Polygonum mite Sch-ani 



Genista pilosa L. 

 Trifolium ochroleucum L. 



Naiadace^ 



_ Potamogeton obtusifolius M. t^ K. 



Rosacea ° 



Alchemilla vulgaris Scop. Or 



JRAMINE« 



Rubus pygmaeus Weihe Festuca sylvatica Fill. 



R. affinis ir. y N. 



R. carpinifolius W. y N. F'L'ces 



Rosa Borreri Woods Asplenium lanceolatum Sm. 



R. canina v. surculosa Borr. Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense Sm. 



THE MOSSES {Musci) 



The swamps in the Sussex forests, the bogs at the foot of the 

 downs, the chalk, itself and the flints upon it, the sand rocks, old walls, 

 and the trunks of trees, especially their north sides, and even the boulders 

 on the shore, will afford plenty of interesting resorts to the bryologist. 

 The mosses delight chiefly in damp and shady situations, though they 



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