I. FLOWERING PLANTS. 41 



Thursley ; Reigate Heath ;* Uxbridge Moor ; Hampstead Heath, two 

 plants;* Wimbledon and Streitham commons, olim ; Tilbury? 



Matricaria Parthenium. Hedgebanks and waste places, generally near 

 habitations, not unfrequent. About Hendon, and the suburbs of London, 

 in several places. 



MATRICARIA INODORA. Fields, wastes, and waysides, common, 7-9. 

 Everywhere, in waste places about the suburbs. 



MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA. Waste places and cultivated grounds, frequent, 

 6-8. With the preceding, in similar situations and in market gar- 

 dens.* 



Medicago sativa. In fields, hedges, and borders of fields, frequent, 67. 

 Cultivated fields in the environs, and bordering hedges ; near Mitcham.* 



MEDICAGO MACULATA. Gravelly pastures, frequent, 5-8. (Putney Heath, 

 plentiful.*) 



MEDICAGO LUPULINA. Waste and cultivated ground, frequent, 5-8. 

 Ditch banks by the Thames near Erith, &c., plentiful,* &c. 



MEDICAGO DENTICULATA. Rare, 5-8 ; local. Behind Ponder's End, olim. 



MEDICAGO FALCATA. Dry gravelly banks, rare, 6-7. About Croydon 

 X?)o/*m; between Watford and Bushey Hill (?) olim. 



MEDICAGO MINIMA. Sandy fields and wastes, rare; local, near South- 

 end, 6. 



MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE. Woods and thickets, frequent, 5-8. Pinner 

 and Ruislip woods ;* Darent Wood ;* copses, Highgate ;* Epping Forest ;* 

 Croham Hurst;* Box Hill.* 



MELAMPYRUM CRISTATUM. Rare, 7. In newly-cut copses on chalk, N.W. 

 of Hertford ; N.W. corner of Essex in similar localities ; Box Hill, or 

 wood near Headley (olim), doubtful ; wood near Northchurch Common ; 

 Tring, olim (?). 



MELAMPYRUM ARVENSE. Cornfields, rare, 6-8. In Herts, near Ashwell. 



MELICA UNIFLORA. Shady woods, frequent, 5-7. Hedges about Hen- 

 don,* &c. 



MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS. Waysides and bushy places ; borders of fields, 

 frequent. Banks of the Thames ;* Harrow Road ;* about Box Hill ; 

 Dorking ; Epping Forest. 



MELILOTUS ALBA. Waysides and bushy places, occasionally, not very fre- 

 quent, 7-8. About Erith ;* marshy meadow near Cuxton railway 

 station, abundant ;* Mickleham (olim) ; about railway stations occa- 

 sionally. 



Melilotus arvensis. Rare, local, 7-8. * Cybele,' iii. p. 332. 



MELITTIS MELISSOPHYLLUM. About Furnace Pool, Felbridge, in great 

 variety (plim), (doubtful ; Cybele Brit.) local, rare. 



Melissa officinalis. A casual. Roadside between Chelmsford and Galley- 

 wood Common ; private road from Chessington to Leatherhead. 



MENTHA ROTUNDIFOLIA. Moist places, rare, 8-9. Wimbledon Com- 

 mon (?) ; Woolwich marshes (?) (now drained) ; between Crayford and 

 Dartford (?) ; by the Ravensbourne at Lewisham, (?) olim ; about Hare- 

 field ; lane between Reigate church and Ffrenches (?) ; by the roadside 

 between Hertford and Essendon, , opposite Watery Hall Farm ; in a 

 blind lane a little off the new road between Bedwell and Camrield Place, 



