64 A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



SCABIOSA ARVENSIS. Pastures and cornfields, more general in the chalk 

 districts, frequent, 6-8. Frequent on banks and borders of cornfields 

 from the Hog's Back to Cuxton ;* road, from Carshalton to Banstead ;* 

 banks of the Thames above Teddington Lock ;* between Cobham and 

 Cuxton ;* roadsides among the Essex cornfields ;* between Croydon and 

 Sanderstead ;* about Dartford, Greenhithe, and Northfleet.* 

 SCANDIX PECTEN-VENERIS. Cornfields, chiefly on the chalk, not un- 

 common, 6-9. About Croydon ;* Carshalton ;* Box Hill ; Coulsdon ;* 

 Greenhithe ;* Dartford ; Northfleet ; Gravesend * (towards Cobham) ; 

 frequent in Herts. 



SCHCENUS NIGRICANS. Bogs on moors, rare, 6-7. Bagshot Heath, left ot the 

 road from Chobham, abundant;* nowhere else nearer than Barkway 

 Moor on the borders of Cambridgeshire ; fens of Tilbury Fort (ohm, 

 none there now ?), also in a bog, olim, two miles beyond Merstham near 

 Redhill station (Cooper) ? 



SCILLA NUTANS. Woods and coppices, common, 4-6. (Epping t 

 between Woodford and Walthamstow, abundant ;* in small quantity on 

 Hampstead Heath.*) 



SCILLA AUTUMNALIS. Gravelly pastures by the Thames, local, 8-9. Moul 

 sey Hurst, opposite Hampton Church, in profusion;* Kew Green; 

 meadows above Richmond ; near Ham and Ditton ; Blackheath, scarce 

 now probably, the heath being so much trodden upon ; Shorne Warren, 

 abundantly ; between Lee and Eltham (? oliiri). 

 SCIRPUS LACUSTRIS. Margins of ponds and rivers, common, 7-8. (Thames 



shore opposite Hammersmith.*) 



SCIRPUS CARINATUS. Thames shore between Putney and Hammersmith, 

 rare local, 7-8. N.B. A mere variety of the above, in the opinion of 

 Mr. 'Bentham ; perhaps a hybrid between the common and the maritime 

 species, which at this point come into contact with each other. 

 SCIRPUS ACICULARIS. Sandy places on the borders of ponds, not very 

 common, perhaps often overlooked, 7-8. Borders of a pond on West-end 

 Common, Esher ;* ponds on Puttenham Common ;* margins of a pond on 

 Milford Green, near Chobham, abundant ;* pond near Wanstead in Eppmg 

 Forest ; Bullmarsh Heath, Berks ; Elstree reservoir ; Earlswood Common. 

 SCIRPUS PALUSTRIS. Wet marshy places, and sides of ponds and ditches, 

 common, 6-7. (In a pond below Hampstead Heath, right of lane leading 

 to Fortune Green ;* ponds on Putney Heath.*) 



SCIRPUS MULTICAULIS. In similar situations; less frequent; perhaps 

 often passed over for the preceding species, 7. Reigate Heath ; 

 Earlswood Common; Esher Common, between Claremont Park and 

 Oxshott Hill;* Bell Bar bog, Herts; boggy places by the canal, 

 Woking;* Pirbright Common;* Bagshot Heath, by the road 

 Chertsey, direct ;* (in a pond right) Epping Forest, lake at Wanstead.; 

 Keston Common ; Totteridge ; bog near Hatfield ; Bell Bar bog. 

 SCIRPUS C^ESPITOSUS. Moors and wet heaths, frequent, 6-7. (VV imbledon 



Common ;* Esher Common.*) 



SCIRPUS PAUCIFLORUS. Boggy places ; rare, 7-8. Cheshunt (JN. JJ. (*.) ; 

 bog in Epping Forest, between Wanstead and Walthamstow (?) ; u 

 Bar bog ; Colney Heath. 



