DISTRIBUTION OP BRITISH PLANTS. 343 



Matine), which, it must be owned, is equally common, and 

 Linaria Italica ; the Balm-leaved Figwort (Scrophularia 

 Scorodonia), Cornish Moneywort (Sibthorpia Europaa) ; the 

 Cornish Heath (Erica vagans), which grows to the size of a 

 shrub, with rose-red blossoms ; one of the Gentian family, 

 Cicendia filiformis, or Gentiana fliformis, a little plant from 

 two to six inches high, with a small blossom at the end of 

 the slender, thread-like stalk. Water Germander (Teucrium 

 Scordium) ; this also, though a rare plant, is to be found in 

 other parts of England as well ; it grows in the neighbour- 

 hood both of Oxford and Cambridge. Water Peatherfoil, 

 or Water Yiolet (Hottonia palustris), which is also to be 

 met with elsewhere, though not common ; it grows at Ox- 

 ford in the ditch surrounding Christ Church meadow. This 

 plant, " which vies in beauty with many of the most admired 

 exotics," would have been more appropriately named the 

 Water Primrose ; in a dried state it looks like a cluster of 

 Primroses on a long stalk, springing out of a bunch of 

 finely-cut seaweed ; but in its living state these finely-cut 

 leaves are under water, the lilac- coloured blossoms alone 

 rising above the surface. Such are the plants, which, with 

 some others, have their favourite habitat in the south-east 

 of Ireland and the south-west of England. 



